BECOMING AN INTERNATIONAL COACH
By Bill Sweetenham Here is my detailed outline for a developing 25-year-old coach/trainer in today’s world. This is what I would do at 25 in order to develop as a world level coach with ambitions at the global level. 1. Have a single minded purpose to succeed at this level. Don’t compromise your purpose or commitment for any reason or any person.
3. Be visionary in all that you do and be an original - copies are never as good as an original, yet the coaching world is a photocopy. Avoid this at all cost.
5. Learn to coach before you learn to train. Training is the physical aspect from head down and coaching is neural and sensory from the neck up.
2. Complete a psychology course at university level. Place this above any leadership course. You either have leadership tendencies or you don’t. You can slightly enhance leadership, but only marginally. You have missed the boat.
4. Understand the difference between coaching and training. Many can train athletes, few can coach and even fewer can do both coaching and training. If you can address this, then you will be ahead of your opposition right from the start.
6. Spend 12 months or more observing the very best operators in the world OUTSIDE of the field of endeavour.
Should you not be prepared to address ALL of the above, then my strong recommendation is to find a different career and do it immediately in order to save both your energy and/or waste athletic talent.
