Thriving in Professional Football Jamie Forrester is a former professional footballer with a 19-year playing career. Jamie represented Leeds United FC at Premier League level, numerous other clubs both at home and abroad including Hull City, AJ Auxerre (France) and FC Utrecht (Holland) as well as England U15, U16 & U18 which also included 2 …
Characteristics of High Performance Athletes Mark Bennett MBE has spent the last 30 years developing robust and scalable strategies and tools to help organisations, teams and individuals maximise the performance potential of themselves and the people they are influencing. Mark hasn’t just developed the ‘how to’ tools and strategies to increase engagement, learning and performance; …
Sports Psychology Tips: How does Counselling work in Professional Sport? To build your resilience talking is essential In professional football, rugby and cricket, I’ve supported a number of players away from their clubs, in a private and confidential setting to deal with situations such as: Falling out with teammates and coaches. Relationship breakups at home. …
How to Develop Interpersonal Confidence Professor Paul McGee is one of Europe’s leading speakers on the subject of change, resilience, wellbeing, and communication. His book SUMO became a Sunday Times best seller and his book on Self Confidence reached number one in the WHSmith’s business book chart and remained there for a further 24 weeks. …
Golf Psychology Tips: How to Stay Focused During the Off-Season Do you try to maximise the time you get to comeback mentally, physically and technically stronger? Many golfers struggle during the winter months to stay motivated, throw in COVID-19 restrictions that have been placed on us in many different countries. It can be very difficult. …
Soccer Psychology Tips: Case Study: Supporting a Professional Footballer during Challenging Times It’s important to recognize footballers are human beings too The Client: A professional footballer who played at international level. The Challenge: The client had lost his confidence and his desire to train hard. In matches, he was on the periphery when he was …
How to Develop Fearless Athletes John Fletcher is the Co-counder of The Magic Academy, a Team Coach at Leading Edge and a Coach Developer for England Hockey. Otherwise known as Fletch, he played first team rugby for Tynedale, Northampton, Newcastle and Gosforth, and was awarded England honours with A team selection. He then moved into coaching, …
Playing Professional Women’s Rugby Taz Bricknell is a professional rugby union player, playing in the Premier 15s for Worcester Warriors. She plays in the backrow and has also played for Gloucester-Hartpury and England Under 20’s. Today I’m joined by Taz Bricknell, a professional rugby player for Worcester Warrior where she talks about the challenges involved …
World Class Thinking, World Class Behaviour Penny Mallory is a former Rally Champion and the first and only woman in the world to drive a World Rally Car for Ford. Although her interest began with automotive performance, her passion quickly shifted to human performance and Mental Toughness. Now, as a leading Authority on Mental Toughness, …
Sports Psychology Tips: How to Keep Goal Setting Simple? Many people over-complicate goal setting and get overwhelmed I had an interesting call with a client recently, I’ll give her a pseudonym to protect her real identity – Paula, a professional golfer. Paula had felt that she done a great job of setting out her goals and …