ITL153: What Makes a Successful Coach? (And Andy's Criteria for Being Coachable)
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2014
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, I answer a listener question about the characteristics of a successful coach.
I speak and write but I also have a couple of clients, including football teams. My criteria for taking on a client:
- I’ve got to like them.
- I have to be convinced that their belief level is at a point where they can accomplish great things.
- Their ability to process information and shift on the fly is also important.
People can only achieve to the level that they really believe.
To me, the characteristics of a successful coach are:
- They have a high level of belief in what they do and what they can accomplish.
- No matter their age or past success, they’re always looking to expand and push the boundaries of what they already know.
- A lot of people think they’re a little crazy. I don’t mean they lose their temper or anything—I mean people look at them and don’t understand why they do what they do.
- They accept the “Jones’ Secret Principle of Extraordinary Achievement.” If you’re doing what everybody else is doing, you’re probably doing something wrong.
Determine the best result that could ever possibly happen, then backup and design methods specific to that result.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective |
| 0:06.5 | with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. |
| 0:10.4 | Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:13.1 | Hi, and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm your host, David Loy. |
| 0:18.0 | Thanks for joining us today. |
| 0:19.6 | Andy, thank you for joining us today. I am excited to be here. This is great. I love doing these, David Loy. Thanks for joining us today. Andy, thank you for joining us today. |
| 0:21.2 | I am excited to be here. |
| 0:22.5 | This is great. |
| 0:23.8 | I love doing these, David. |
| 0:24.8 | Excellent. |
| 0:25.4 | I love talking to people who are listening to them. |
| 0:28.6 | And I only have one suggestion for people when they say, hey, I love listening to you and David on the podcast. And my one suggestion is |
| 0:39.0 | please share this with other people. Please have them put their email address in and let us send |
| 0:45.6 | these to them, to your friends on a weekly basis. We hope these are helping. And my mission is to help people live the life that they would live if they only knew how. |
| 0:59.6 | And so I really want to touch a bunch more people, and you can help me do that if you don't mind. |
| 1:08.0 | Absolutely. |
| 1:08.7 | And I talk to people on a regular basis. |
| 1:10.7 | You know, We try to |
| 1:11.7 | keep these fairly short. They're typically anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes. We're not trying to monopolize. |
| 1:16.8 | So I've enjoyed being here with you today. We're not trying to monopolize anybody's entire day. |
| 1:21.6 | We know there's a ton of stuff out there that people can consume. But I've heard, I talked to one woman |
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