Create Meaningful Connections, Elevate Your Coaching Influence

The Intrinsic Coach

by Gordon MacFarlane

About The Book

The saying "know your players” means “know the person too” and encapsulates the importance of understanding not just the skills and abilities of individuals in a team, but also their personalities and what inspires and motivates them. This concept is particularly relevant in team sports, where a coach's ability to relate to their players can significantly impact performance and cohesion within the group. When coaches take the time to understand their players on a deeper level, they create an environment where individuals feel valued, appreciated and understood, which tends to translate into improved teamwork and better performance results.
Unlike traditional coaching styles that tend to focus solely on external rewards such as trophies, wins and statistics, intrinsic coaching encourages athletes to find fulfillment and purpose within themselves and provides them with important life lessons that can be applied outside of the athletic arena. Intrinsic coaching encourages self-reflection, prompting athletes to consider what motivates and inspires them and what areas they need to improve. Ultimately, the intrinsic coach and the general message in this book promotes not just success in sports, but success in all aspects of your life, making it an essential approach for any aspiring athlete.

Gord MacFarlane... 'Coach Gord'

Performance Mindset Coach & Human Behavior Specialist/Master Trainer

Gordon MacFarlane Coach, Trainer, Speaker... Career Elite-Athletic Coach and Business Development Coach, Certified Leadership Coach, Certified Mental Wellness Practitioner, and Professional Sales Strategist. Developing and training elite-level coaches and leaders for 35+ years. I assist athletic coaches and business leaders with the challenge of unlocking and unleashing any person's limitless potential. I deliver my training in personal 1-on-1 and specialized organizational training platforms. I help them to recognize and develop untapped skills, abilities and characteristics in their athletes and employees. I have developed a powerful and easy-to-use, 7-step, Performance Engagement Model derived from a similar and very successful 5-step model I co-developed several years ago now. I apply this new model with a 3-Point Emphasis methodology: 1. "AWARENESS" Communicate (Learn the communication keys to powerful connections that allow you to build trust and establish consistently tight synergy) 2. "EMPOWERMENT" Build Confidence (Know precisely where you need to focus to consistently instill confidence, which empowers anyone to a level of focused engagement?) 3. "APPLICATION" Perform with Confidence (Understand how to tap into and empower a person's full potential and have the unshakable belief to perform with excellence as an individual and as a teammate) I have invested myself for over 45 years, gaining personal and vocational experience in multiple fields, including professional sales, business, leadership development, business ownership, human behavior, emotional intelligence, and professional sports/athletics coaching. I have also studied and leveraged the collective best practices of business and athletics, combined with my own experiences to create a performance mindset platform to train from that has proven to be consistently VERY successful. I also assist coaches and leaders in strengthening and enhancing organizational cultures to reflect a high-performance mindset focused on excellence. I have coached elite-level, competitive hockey for over 40 years, Coached and mentored Leaders, and owned 8 businesses of my own. I have been married for over 35 years with 4 grown daughters who have blessed us with 10 grandchildren...so far! I am a high-energy, dynamic communicator, entrepreneur-minded, results-oriented achiever, and pragmatic problem solver. Performance Mindset Coaching is my passion, and it's what I do to help athletic coaches and executives build world-class performance results. If you want to learn my methodology to help people tap into and develop their limitless potential, I am ready to engage, empower, and train you.

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