Posted in Astronomy, Coaching, Farming, Music, Teaching and Learning, tagged Arthur Koestler, Bush Telegraph, Cam McKellar, Christine Jones, Coaching, Graham Abbott, Hubble Telescope, Mozart, The Commons on 16 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I was involved in a lot of discussions about coaching and coach development. For years I have been thinking about the vision that links people after reading an Arthur Koestler paper in the late 1980s entitled The Vision that Links the Poet, Artist and Scientist.
This week I have been thinking about the links [...]
Posted in Coaching, Communication, Performance, Teaching and Learning, tagged Carlo Maria Giulini, Coaching, Conducting, Itay Talgam, Leonard Bernstein, Michael Tilson Thomas, Yannick Nezet Seguin on 14 August, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I believe there are enormous similarities between coaching and conducting. In this post I would like to explore these similarities.
Some years ago I sat enchanted whilst I watched Leonard Bernstein’s The Love of Three Orchestras (1986). It was a ninety-minute video with excerpts from rehearsals and concerts. In it Leonard Bernstein talks about his career [...]
Posted in Coaching, Communication, Digital media, IASI, Teaching and Learning, tagged Coach Education, Coaching, IASI, John Bales on 12 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
John Bales is the CEO of the Coaching Association of Canada.
His keynote address at IASI was entitled The Use of Web Based Technologies by Coaches
John initiated his presentation with the suggestion that learning faster than the opposition is fundamental to competitive advantage. He developed this suggestion with a discussion of learning organisations. His talk explored [...]
Posted in Teaching and Learning, tagged Coaching, Julian North, sorts coach UK on 8 December, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Julian North has written a brief article for sports coach UK’s journal Coaching Edge (Autumn 2008, page 30). In the article he reports preliminary evidence from the UK Coach Tracking Study (information from 1264 coaches) on how coaches use learning sources and experiences in their development.
This is the table Julian produced to summarise learning experiences [...]
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