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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

4 years

Athletes make excellence happen; Coaches make excellence possible.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

3 years

177K PLUS views…thank you one and all. Happy New Year!

Mike Quirke

@Mike_Quirke

3 years

This is gold from @frankdickcoach for anybody involved in coaching on the value of keeping winning in perspective for kids.

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Frank Dick

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Thankyou Athletics Weekly! Can’t believe this video has had over 522K views. Please keep sharing 👏🏼

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@AthleticsWeekly

3 years

What's the best coaching pep talk you've ever had? This advice on winning from the legendary @frankdickcoach will take some beating.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

3 years

One of the biggest errors we can make in athlete development is to give beginner athletes to beginner coaches. They need the best coaches of beginner athletes. It’s a specialist coaching area and we must prepare coaches accordingly.

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Frank Dick

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Beginner athletes should not be coached by beginner coaches. They should be coached by the best coaches in coaching beginners. Getting it right from the start for the athlete is smarter than having to put it right later.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

3 years

Athletes who win consistently in their developing years cannot learn resilience. Learning to bounce back from failure is critical preparation for the shark infested waters of senior competition. Coaches must create winning and losing learning experiences.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

3 years

Systems, Tactics and Strategies count for nothing if the basic skills are not brilliant and robust under pressure.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

3 years

No matter how hard the training, go the distance: See it through. If you quit in training you’ll quit when things get tough in the arena. Giving in once can be the start of a bad habit.

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Frank Dick

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3 years

While you can be taught the science of coaching in books, lecture courses and on line, you can only learn the art through coaching itself and life experience.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

8 months

The biggest mistake we can make in the performance pathway is to have beginners coached by beginner coaches. They need the best coaches at coaching beginners. That is a specific skill set.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

4 years

Coaching beginners requires as much specialist expertise as coaching elite athletes. The coach is preparing them either to pursue future high performance or to live an active healthful life. That’s a big responsibility and not one for beginner coaches

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

5 years

As coach your goal is for athletes to take ownership of their performance in sport and in life. First, you are the light to guide them; next you teach them how to create their own light; next you are the mirror reflecting their light; finally you step out of the light.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

3 years

What you accept in training is all you can expect in the arena. We want excellence in the arena, so it’s excellence we need in training.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

3 years

The process in guiding an athlete to the greatest performance they are capable of, is mostly about getting rid of the things that will prevent it. That greatness is always there just waiting to be freed

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

3 years

When you are fighting for the line and it’s only metres away, go through it, not to it. The line is only a measure of what’s “enough”. You must always want to be better than that.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

4 years

Talent id is not about knowing yesterday’s and today’s performance and results; it is about understanding potential for tomorrow’s. That means assessing the athlete’s ability to learn and grow physically, mentally and emotionally in training and in the arena

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

2 years

Early specialisation in sport is poor preparation for the peak performance years. Early development is not about performance it’s about experiencing multiple skills and learning to learn as a foundation for secialist performance in the peak performance years

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

3 years

To take people with you as leader, or coach people to learn and change, you need two skills. You must be able to teach and to sell. You teach to the mind; you sell to the heart. You need both understanding and engagement.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

3 years

There are three things you must know as a coach. Know what you know: Know what you don’t know: Know someone who does and get them on board. We can’t know everything so we make sure we never make those we coach victim of our limitations.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

4 years

Great picture of focussing on task!

Ottilia Anna MaSibanda

@MaS1banda

4 years

I can't stop watching this video 🤩

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

4 years

In coaching, first look and listen for what’s strong and working in performance and build on that; then focus only on errors compromising performance. Never focus on errors first. This fractures motivation and disrupts learning.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

4 years

In growing as a Coach, you can be taught the technical part of coaching from books, on line material and lectures. But you can only learn the practical craft of the people part though drawing lessons from coaching and life experience

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

6 years

It is a mistake to think that the more you practice the better you get. The fact is, without first establishing robust quality of what you will practice and regularly checking that the quality is there, you’ll be practicing imperfection and embedding that.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

4 years

We have two goals to address as coaches. First is to prepare young people for their competitive arena. Second is to prepare them through that experience for living a healthful, purposeful and productive life. We should plan to achieve both in our programs.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

4 years

There is little point of looking for where we can find marginal gains if the basics are not excellent and robust in the first place. Get the cake baked right before you concern yourself over the icing and decoration

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

2 years

The Coach’s job is not to put excellence into Athletes. It’s already there. Their job is to bring it out.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

3 years

If your goal is to be better than someone else, you’re as likely to perform short of your potential as you are to overstretch. So make your goal to be persistently better than who you are. That’s what winning really is. Happy New year and thanks for following

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

2 years

Anyone can perform brilliantly when conditions are right and they feel 100%. Not everyone can when conditions are not and they don’t. So practice in adverse conditions and when you feel short of your best and make your B game better than the opposition’s A

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

4 years

No coach can know everything. We each have our limitations. But no athlete should ever become the victim of our limitations. So know three things. Know what you know. Know what you don’t know. Know someone who does and bring them on board.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

2 years

When preparing to coach, spend as much time on how you will coach as what you will coach. That means truly knowing who you are coaching and why you are coaching them. Coaching is as much a people skill as a technical one.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

6 years

As coaches we are not there to make a decision for the athlete nor to give them a solution. We prepare athletes to learn from the experiences we create in training and from the arena itself, to make their own decisions and create their own solutions.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

2 years

Great coaches help athletes to see who they can become, rather than what they are, and light their path to get there.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

4 years

The two gifts a parent must give a child are the roots to grow and the wings to fly. Because we can neither do the growing nor flying for them. They are the same two gifts a Coach, leader, teacher, manager or anyone engaged in developing people must give them

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

3 years

No matter how you feel inside, always carry yourself like a winner. Even if the scoreboard looks like you are in trouble, the opposition must not see that when they look at you. When you show control and confidence that can give you a winning mental edge.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

5 years

We can be taught the science of coaching in the classroom or online but we can only learn the art of coaching through experience plus thoughtful reflection and constructive feedback. Of course we need the science but without the art it’s not coaching.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

5 years

When the battle is over, loudest opinions come from those who’ve watched from the sidelines. But their opinion does not count. The only person whose opinion counts is the one who is in the arena and risks all in fighting for the win. And that’s you.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

7 years

Coaches are pretty good at programming rest and regeneration into athletes’s lives but seldom do so for themselves. Don’t wait till you are too fatigued to enjoy the benefit of such time. So make it a regular part of your own routine.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

2 years

We build in rest days to athletes’ programmes to recover from training workloads and be ready to perform in the arena. The same applies to us as coaches. Build in regular rest days. If you wait till you’re exhausted, you are already underperforming.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

7 years

The secret of success is that there isn’t one. You know the five things you need to know:-Get the basics right; put in the training hours; never duck the tough stuff; always go for the win; never give up.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

3 years

As coaches, we cannot put greatness into those we coach. There’s greatness already inside everyone. It’s getting it out that’s the challenge and it’s our job to do that.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

4 years

Coaching is not a once in a while event; it is a continuous process of seeking moments to influence an athlete’s or team’s performance. It’s as much about anticipating situations as responding to them and is founded on observation skills

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

10 months

Coaching beginner athletes is too important and specialised a job to give to beginner coaches.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

3 years

We cannot know everything as Coaches. So know what you know; know what you don’t know; and know someone who does. That way we will not make those we coach victims of our limitations.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

4 years

Great coaching is far more than guiding athletes to be better than they are. It is first in guiding them to understand who they can become; next to believe that they can achieve that; then to take ownership themselves of getting there.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

3 years

The game does not end with the result. It ends when we have learned all we can from the experience to be better prepared for the next.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

5 years

We’re in a brutal arena. The game is more unstructured and chaotic than structured and routine. So we will win by doing the basics brilliantly; controlling the controllables; being agile in adapting to change and uncertainty; and being persistent, patient and resilient

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

1 year

In coaching, not all that matters can be measured; and not all that can be measured matters.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

2 years

No one in our lifetime will singly so influence for the good the life we live as a nation more than this wonderful lady we have lost today.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

5 years

You are unique. In all of time there will never be another one of you. What you bring to the world no one else can. So in your time keep working on being better at being you and you will change the world. Your difference matters.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

5 years

We cannot choose or change the conditions and circumstances of the dark times in which we now find ourselves. But we can choose and change our attitude and our behaviour to work better with each other and for each other in making our way back to the light.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

3 years

Neither as coach, leader nor parent, can I dream your dreams for you nor can I make them happen. Only you can do those things. But I can be there for you to make them possible and to create opportunity to make them happen. That’s my job. That’s what I do

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

3 years

It’s not our job as coaches to tell those we coach the way to win. It’s our job to help them learn how to find a way to win.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

4 years

You are the best in the world at being who you are. Don’t ever try to be someone else. Just keep on being better at who you are and you will touch your dreams

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

5 years

As coaches we must have a relentless drive to learn and to know more. But we must also have the courage to acknowledge what we don’t know and to bring in someone who does. If we lack that courage we will make those we coach victims of our limitations.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

7 years

Being professional is not about always being paid for what you do. It is about attitude to always delivering excellence in what you do

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

5 years

You are the best in the world at being who you are. Don’t ever try to be someone else. Just be better at being you and you’ll always touch your mountain tops.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

6 years

Your value as a coach is not measured by the volume of books and articles, courses, symposiums, online programs or qualifications. It’s measured by how consistently you improve performance of those whose development you lead to deliver in the Arena on the day

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

3 years

The measure of quality coaching is not just in how well you prepare athletes to successfully meet the toughest challenges in their chosen arena, but in how well you have prepared them to successfully meet the toughest challenges in life.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

5 years

There is little point of having Team Meetings if we always agree on things. It is through diversity of thinking and difference of opinion that we truly address issues. It is through constructively doing so together that we effectively lead the curve of change

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

2 years

With each athlete you coach there’s a specific tension you must create between challenging and supporting them. Getting that tension right is a skill that starts with making time to know the athlete and also their world. It can be quite different from yours

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

4 years

If the basics are not right everything after that is compensation and sooner or later the wheels fall off. So make the basics brilliant first and constantly refresh them to keep them that way.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

5 years

As Coach, at some point you’ll have rough diamonds in the Team. They are precious but have rough edges. These need attention : If the edges hurt the player, it’s their choice: If they hurt you, it’s your choice: If they hurt the Team, it’s no choice. Get rid.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

2 years

Coaches need technical skills and people skills. No matter how strong we are in the technical skills, if that strength is not matched in the people skills, our effectiveness as coaches is compromised.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

3 years

As coaches we guide the process for athletes to take ownership of their development and performance. First we light their path. Next we fuel their own light. Next we are the mirror reflecting their light. Then we step out of their light.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

3 years

If you don’t believe in you, no one else will. There’s an infectious energy that grows from self belief that’s balanced with humility.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

5 years

In high performing Teams, coaches, staff and players work persistently to know each other better. That way we learn each other’s strengths and vulnerabilities; what motivates; what stresses. Most importantly we learn to read early signs of stress to give right support fast.

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Frank Dick

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2 years

Trying to find the secret of success is like trying to find a shortcut in a marathon. There isn’t one. Do the work. Go the distance.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

5 years

When you are climbing your mountains, always leave footholds for those who will follow. And when you reach the top, anchor the rope that they will need to get there. That way, in touching your dreams you are part of others touching theirs.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

7 years

If all coaching decisions were evidence based there would be no need to use judgement. It's not about numbers and systems, it's about people

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

8 years

It's not about the quantity of hours you put into the training; it's about the quality of training you put into the hours.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

3 years

Avoid listening only to those whose view aligns with yours. While you may see their alignment as confirmation, that is no guarantee that you are right. So seek out those who see things differently. They will test your view and get closer to what right is

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

7 years

The moment to pass the ball is not when you’ve run out of options of how you can use it. It’s when you see opportunity for a team mate to create better options of how to use it for the Team

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Frank Dick

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2 years

If losing doesn’t hurt, winning doesn’t matter.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

3 years

Those young athletes who sometimes lose have an advantage over consistent winners. Unlike those winners they learn early to be resilient to defeat. When they come to the tough stuff later, that resilience matters. So experience of losing is a critical learning opportunity

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

2 years

The purpose of youth and junior development programmes is for achievement in the senior arena, not the Junior. Programmes focussed on High performance at Junior level risks leaving little physically, mentally or emotionally for father improvement.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

5 years

Be careful with success. It can fracture progress by putting minds on result instead of performance. Today’s excellence is tomorrow’s average. It’s consistently raising performance that matters. The result, successful or otherwise, is simply a consequence.

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Frank Dick

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2 years

Wherever you are across the World, I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy 2023. Let’s make it a brilliant year. Thank you for following on Twitter. Knowing you are there is why I Tweet a coaching point each day. I hope some work for you.

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Frank Dick

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1 year

What you accept in training is all you can expect in the Arena. Mediocre practice cannot produce excellent performance. So highest quality in what you do and how you do it in training is non negotiable.

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Frank Dick

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3 years

Before building towards high performance make sure you have platform of wellbeing. That’s not a box ticking exercise; it’s something that must be constantly managed. This applies both to athletes and coaches.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

3 years

Failure is not in defeat or getting things wrong or under performing in the arena. Failure is in failing to review and learn and come back fighting even harder and smarter.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

2 years

Feedback is critical; it is not criticism. It is not always what you want to hear but it is something you need to hear if you are to learn and grow.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

4 years

Our work is done as coaches when those we coach take ownership of their development and performance. But that can only happen if we first take ownership of the process which prepares them to do so.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

3 years

Our preparation is not about creating certainty in the arena: it’s about anticipating and being ready to adapt to the uncertainty of the arena.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

2 years

You can be taught the science of coaching through live or on line well taught coach education courses: but you can only learn the art of coaching through experience of coaching, of life itself and quality mentoring to facilitate that learning

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

3 years

A Winning organisation is a team of teams. The smaller teams have a specific function within the greater team. So each of us must be world class in our own role; help others in our team be world class in theirs; and help those in the other smaller teams be world class in theirs

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

4 years

Athletes make excellence happen; coaches make excellence possible. It’s the most important relationship in sport.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

6 years

Done a couple of years back. Hope it’s useful. Keep smiling. Frank

Neil Graham

@neil_graham1

6 years

📽️ Understanding Winning (Frank Dick) "Winning is being better today than you were yesterday...everyday" A must watch for all coaches!! @scotrugbycoach @sportscotland @frankdickcoach

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Frank Dick

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There is no point in designing brilliant systems and strategies if the basics aren’t brilliant and robust in the first place. Performance is about fundamentals, not frills.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

5 years

Leadership is a people skill. So mostly it can’t be taught; it can only be learned. And the learning is as much through understanding our own emotions and those of the people we lead, as through understanding their thoughts and actions and our own

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

5 years

When you pass the ball, you don’t give away responsibility. Deciding to pass is about taking responsibility. It is creating effective connection. It is being a playmaker. The right pass; the right person; the right moment; for the Team.

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Frank Dick

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7 years

The mentors or coaches we need are not those who proclaim their unmatchable expertise but those whose insatiable hunger to learn more matches ours.

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

4 years

There is a purpose to every drill and practice. They are not things to be compliantly got through. They are things to be seriously worked at and executed excellently or the purpose cannot be achieved. Quality in training defines quality in the arena

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

5 years

If you wait till you feel 100% ready to step up to the next level in your career Pathway it’s probably too late. Have the courage to take the step before you are ready and have belief in yourself not only to grow into the role but to make the role itself grow

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Frank Dick

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5 years

The greatest danger to performance progression, is feeling satisfied that enough has been done. In travelling the performance pathway, doing enough is a loser’s destination. The fact is, winners never arrive because they constantly redefine excellence.

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Frank Dick

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6 years

Performance progression towards a long term goal is not a linear process. It is a matter of surges and plateaus; of ebbs and flows; of exhilarating momentum and bruising stumbles. So the keys to delivering the process are adaptability, creativity & resilience

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Frank Dick

@frankdickcoach

4 years

It’s not a sign of ignorance to keep asking questions; it’s a sign of intelligence. Curiosity is the key to learning. If we are to get right answers we must first ask right questions. That is a skill in itself. Make time to develop that skill.

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Frank Dick

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2 years

The Coach-Athlete relationship starts with the Coach lighting the Athlete’s path. Next the Coach fuels the Athlete’s light. Next the Coach is the mirror reflecting the Athlete’s light. Finally the Coach must step out of the Athlete’s light.

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Frank Dick

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4 years

Coaching is about much more than preparing people to do things better and differently in their arena. It is also about preparing them to be who they must to live a mindful, purposeful and fulfilling life.

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Frank Dick

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3 years

As a coach you must create an effective tension for your athlete’s development. It’s like getting the high wire tension right for the artiste. The tension is created between support and challenge. Too much of either compromises progress. Effective tension is about judgement

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Frank Dick

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We cannot choose the conditions and circumstances in the arena nor can we fully control results; but we can choose and fully control our attitude to how we prepare for our arena and adapt to what it brings. Consistent winners make right choices.

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