Systemic Coaching, Talent-Centered © #1

Last week I gave you a picture of a talent showing which social elements it develops alongside in the various areas.

With the areas of athletic, personal, and academic development, the essential fields are covered.

Unfortunately, last week's graphic did not clearly show the interplay in which the social elements stand with the talent and with one another. This occupied me so much throughout the week that I kept sitting down with an image, again and again, to make these particular relationships clear to you. The talent is not only in exchange with each individual social element; the elements themselves are also in relationship with one another, which the connections between the respective points are meant to make transparent.

I would like to briefly illustrate this with an example, since it is not immediately obvious:

The younger brother of a fifteen-year-old talented player accompanies his parents to the training center to watch a few minutes of training before heading home. During these last few minutes, standing on the sideline of the training pitch, he witnesses how the coach interacts with the players. Even these few impressions form images in the boy's mind that, consciously and unconsciously, influence him with regard to communication.

The brother now interacts directly and indirectly with the coaches, teachers, friends, possibly other siblings, the club officials, the player's agent, the parents, and last but not least, his talented sister. Depending on the impressions he gathered, communication is influenced in one direction or another. This may seem negligible at first, but in an individual case, or in the sum of all interactions, it can have a considerable effect on the development of the talented sister.

The graphic above is the basis for an overall overview that I would like to develop with you over the coming weeks. That is why it is important to me to repeat once more today the principle I already mentioned last week:

There is one limiting element: time! The more time invested in one field of development, the less is available for optimizing the other areas.

If there is a disruption in one field of development, or with a social element, that disruption radiates out across all elements and fields of development!

With the circle "Systemic Coaching, Talent-Centered ©," which encompasses the fields of development and the social elements, I would like to clarify my understanding of my role.

Using various communication techniques, I accompany talents, their parents, coaches, and other key "players" in this process, in order to create or restore as optimal a development environment as possible.

Since, as a coach, I have already taken on or continue to hold responsibility in almost all of these roles myself, I am thoroughly familiar with the motives and circumstances of each of the actors involved.

My understanding of the individual people, their roles and interactions, as well as my experience across the various fields of development, strengthen my function as a catalyst.

As an external actor who has no club affiliation, does not otherwise benefit from the talent's development, and from whom a teenager going through puberty does not need to distance themselves, I create a basis of trust that is indispensable for communicative success.

Next week, we will begin to look at the fields of development in somewhat more detail.

Until then! Stay healthy, and always a good match!