THE SUBJECT OF COACHING
Coaching Series 1 (Coaching Philosophy)
By Alan C. Walter
Alan
C. Walter is recognised in "21st Century
Leadership" as one of the 100 Top leaders in America today. He
has coached and advised Oscar winners, Olympic Gold Medallists,
Wimbledon Champions, Billionaires, and Multi- National Corporate
Leaders. Alan is president of the Advanced
Coaching and Leadership Center, a training center for professional
coaches.
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Definitions:
COACH:
n. 1. A person or private tutor who trains athletes, athletic teams,
leaders, executives, individuals, or students to increase knowledge,
skills, abilities, awareness, integrity, relationships, craftsmanship,
and mastery in order to excel and win at the chosen games of life.
WINNING:
adj. 1. The action of achieving victory over others in a competition.
2. Achieving success in an effort or venture. 3. Struggling through
to a desired place or level of existence. 4. The action of one who masters
a subject, place, time or person.
THE SEQUENCE
OF WINNING: The action of perceiving what is wanted, intending to
produce what is wanted, envisioning what is wanted, planning how to
attain what is wanted, implementing the actions necessary to produce
what is wanted and achieving the intended result of what is wanted at
the quality, quantity and viability expected.
THE BASIC
INTENT OF COACHING
The basic intent
of coaching is to produce a champion. This is done by gradients of wins,
each win bigger than the previous one, as the student progresses.
The lowest skills
level may be at just arriving or switching on a machine or tying one's
shoelaces. At the mastery level it may be winning an Olympic gold medal,
winning a Super Bowl or receiving a Nobel Prize.
Coaches coach to make champions. Champions are
masters of their games. The Super Bowl champions are a team of champions,
each playing his role as close to mastery as possible.
A superb coach knows the formula for Masterpieces
which is to break each part of a skill down to its individual fundamental
pieces and to drill and perceive each piece until it is fully mastered.
This is known in coaching as the fundamentals. A professional coach
expects all of his players to have mastered the fundamentals.
MASTERING THE FUNDAMENTALS
Below is our introductory text to the fundamentals
of powerful coaching. This book contains secrets that Alan used to increase
his clients power, wealth and happiness.
FUNDAMENTAL: adj. 1. Having to do with the foundation; elemental;
basic; central; key. 2. Having to do with the origin.
Mastering the fundamentals of life is the pathway
to certainty, success, prosperity and happiness. The major reason for
any FAILURE IN LIFE, BUSINESS, RELATIONSHIPS OR ANY OF LIFE'S GAMES
IS THE FAILURE TO MASTER THE FUNDAMENTALS OF LIFE.
The master coach knows his fundamentals, he is
a superb craftsman of and at his game, and further, he knows how to
rehabilitate or correct missing or weak fundamentals.
We have isolated as many fundamentals of life as
is possible and devised exercises and drills to bring a student to mastery
on a specific fundamental. This is done over and over again on each
piece while gradiently getting tougher and achieving more and more skill
and certainty of knowledge. Each fundamental is practiced until all
the mastered pieces fit together and become whole. This then becomes
integrity; a mastered wholeness of the subject.
THE BASIC PERCEPTION OF COACHING
There are two abilities all coaches must have.
These are:
1. THE ABILITY TO PERCEIVE WHAT THE STUDENT CAN
DO.
2. THE ABILITY TO HELP HIM DO IT BETTER AT THE
RIGHT GRADIENT.
PERCEIVING WHAT THE STUDENT CAN DO
One does not have to get fancy at putting in fundamentals.
Let us say you have a student who is terrified
of public speaking. You don't just stick him in front of a group and
say "Start speaking". This is too steep a gradient. Your first step
would be having him do "Bravery Drill 1 - Increasing Personal Presence".
You probably will find that the student has trouble being present in
front of one person, and the idea of being present in front of a group
is totally overwhelming.
If this is the case, you gently do the presence
exercise until the student is comfortable and is winning.
You then continue to the next exercise and so on,
each time increasing the gradient. It may take two to three hours or
it might take 1000 hours. It takes as long as it takes. If you fail
to do this, you will have a person who is always nervous or worried
and under stress when faced with handling people.
All master coaches know that the most basic fundamental
in all of life is PRESENCE and that the first thing to check on anyone,
at anytime, is his PRESENCE. If this is out then everything else will
be out.
The other basics the master coach knows are the
four fundamental paradigms and the Zones status.
THE FOUR PARADIGMS
1. THE HUMAN BEING PARADIGM.
Empowerer
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Dream
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Vision ----------------- Mind
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Outcomes ------------ Body
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Actuality of the Completed Dream
2. THE ABILITY PARADIGM.
Perceiver
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Intend
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Envision ----------- Plan
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Result ---------- Implement
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Attainment of the Perceived Need or Want
3. THE ETHICS PARADIGM.
Knowledge
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Winning Precepts
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Greatest Goodness ------ Certainty of Sequences
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Green Zone --------------- Effectiveness
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Happiness
4. THE LEARNING PARADIGM.
Duplication by Permeation
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Intention
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Concept ---------------- Familiarity
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Comprehension -------- Contact
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Application
The master coach is totally familiar with these
four fundamental paradigms, the Green Zone, Yellow Zone, and Red Zone,
and their effects on the student's capabilities.
The master coach has total certainty in the student's
strength, intelligence, power, and potential.
The master coach is an expert at validating the
student's strengths. When a student has a win he does not let the student
go by any regained abilities or wins. He lets the student have the win.
The master coach is an invaluable teammate. A team
of master coaches will win over any obstacles. The coach is basically
responsible for the team's results. Great coaches mean great people,
great parents, great friends, great salesmen, great processors, great
supervisors, great executives, great leaders and a great team.
The quality and craftsmanship of coaching is a
major factor in your success or failure. Great coaching makes for a
great future.
It is up to you to achieve the highest level of
coaching skills. If you are a great coach and insist that everyone else
on the team become great, then you are well on your way to leading a
great life.
ALAN C. WALTER
7 June 1990
Revised 24 November 1995
Copyright © 1990, 1995
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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