Verum writes: Make coaching your New Year’s resolution

In sport it is the norm for the professional sportsperson to have a coach, whether it be an individual sport, such as swimming and tennis, or a team sport where there will be coaches for each section of the team. Anyone who has read the ‘inner game’ books by Timothy Gallwey relating to the sports of golf, tennis and skiing will remember that coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximise their performance. It is helping them to learn and improve, rather than teaching. Hence in using the term coach I am thinking more of the supportive relationship that exists between a coach and the coachee, with a particular style of communication, rather than instruction and teaching. Ideally the coachee will acquire the facts not from the coach, but will be stimulated by the coach to acquire the facts from their own inner self.