4D Pyramid Coaching for Sports and Business

By Paul Smith

In 4D Pyramid Coaching for Sports and Business, author Paul Smith draws on his experience in the business and sporting worlds to show you how to grow yourself and the people you coach, manage, and lead. Through real-life examples, he gives insight into how you can shift your focus away from just the outcomes and look at the mental side of your game.

This guide is filled with practical examples culled from all levels of sports and business, from school fields to international business forums. Smith lays out the four sides of his pyramid—profiling, confidence and resilience, awareness, and goals and process—that will enable you to stick to the plan and allow the outcomes to take care of themselves.

4D Pyramid Coaching for Sports and Business can be used as a reference point or road map to enable you to trigger the quest for more knowledge on how to successfully develop the important mental side of your game. The tips and advice help both you and your crew look great.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press AU
• Release date: Nov 26, 2020
• ISBN: 9781504323635

Paul Smith

PAUL SMITH is a dedicated father of two and an expert trainer in leadership and storytelling techniques. As the author of the popular Lead with a Story, he has seen his work featured in The Wall Street Journal, Time, Forbes, The Washington Post, Success, and Investor's Business Daily, among others.

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-2354-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-2363-5 (e)

Balboa Press rev. date: 11/23/2020

CONTENTS

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Foreword

Preface

Section 1: Profiling

The Journey

WTF

Profiling

Know Thyself

Persuasion

Communication Styles

Profile Awareness

Emotional Intelligence

Chemistry

Channelling Inspiration

Coach–Kid Fit

Profile for Gold

Life Stages

Pushing Buttons

Open Doors

Talk to Me

Profiling Players

The Bad Shove

Player Styles

Know How to Micromanage

Section 2: Awareness

Conceptual Birth

In the Now

Your Environment

Ego Awareness

Mind Your Mind’s Language

To a Mind Needing a Wake-Up Call

Bliss

The Hard-Soft Skill

Mirror Reflections

Hatching Eggs

Eye in the Sky

Grasping Quantum

Demonstrating

Do Better

KISS

Habitual Practice

Rabbit Ears

The Value of Beer

See and Deal

The Masterful Sledge

Memes

Understanding Circumstances

Deal with What You’ve Got

Section 3: Confidence and Resilience

Always Up and at Them

Road to Resilience

Bank of Confidence

Pedal to the Gas

The 1 Per Cent

Be Kind with Time

Observe and Flourish

Integrity

Leadership

Scepticism

Network Wealth

Advancement

Experienced Learning

Deep Multitasking: Zen

Enter the Mystical Zen

Birds of a Feather

Don’t Ask, Don’t Get

Dream On

Blue Sky

New for Old

Battery Power

Life Balance

Comfort Food

Sleep Break

The Way Back

Section 4: Goals and Process

Purpose

Visions and Values

Governance

Green Grass

Drivers for Change

KPIs: Kill Personal Interest

Using KPIs Constructively

Not the Same Old

The Target

The Tip

Stepping-Stones

I’s for All

Habitualised Skills

Mind in Your Hands

The Wobbles

Rainy Days

Young Eyes

The Mind’s Glue

Targeting

Invest in Your Future

Culture

Chasing the Golden Spoon

Money

Sponsorship

Next Steps

Hard and Soft Focus

FOREWORD

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This book is not designed to be read from front to back. Think of it more as a jigsaw puzzle. You can start from any point and gradually put together the pieces until you finally reveal the full picture.

As coaches, athletes, or anyone in business who’s striving to be successful, we all tend to get caught up in focusing on outcomes—winning medals, premierships, being awarded a professional contract, or closing the sale that wins the big bonus. Everything’s great while the success rolls along, but what happens when the wheels fall off, the performances drop off, we stop winning games, or we fail to close those sales.

So how do we generally deal with these form slumps? People are creatures of habit. The athletes and coaches head straight for the training track and focus on their technical work. They hit more balls, run more kilometres. In the case of business, we look at the pricing structure and the components of the deal, so we can overcome the form slump. By using this narrow focus, we often make things worse; the form slump continues, the pressure build, and we begin to doubt ourselves. All these things contribute to putting a block in the way that stops your natural talent—and all those skills that you’ve learned and done well with in the past—from coming out and doing what they’ve always done, allowed you to succeed and be successful.

This book doesn’t focus on the outcomes; it focuses on the processes that allow you to pay attention to the area of your game that we all forget about, your mind.

In this book, Paul Smith draws on his experience in the business and