What Makes a Great Coach?: Top 10 Practices of the World’s Best Coaches

by Emma Doyle, Natalie Ashdown

To all coaches, leaders, senior managers, sports coaches, and If you want to learn, grow, become better at coaching, and maximize the potential in your players, clients, or team, then this book is for you. Regardless of the work we do or the industry we’re in, as leaders and managers, we need to grow and develop our people, to enable them to achieve high performance. From the front-line manager to the boardroom, it isn't enough to direct and tell people what to do. We need to drive innovation, accountability, and performance in our teams. And that is what this book is all about.

Based on extensive research from the world's leading tennis, sport, and business coaches, What Makes a Great Coach? unlocks the secrets from over 500 coaches and the top 10 practices of these coaches. Told through the eyes of Emma's own personal and raw journey towards elite coaching, What Makes a Great Coach? features stories, quotes, and inspiration from past and current coaching legends, including the coaches of many former World No. 1s. What Makes a Great Coach? provides the much-needed authentic, practical, and relatable guide to becoming a better coach.

222 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 30, 2022

About the author

Emma Doyle is your ENERGY COACH! She is an international high-performance tennis coach turned corporate coach specializing in helping leaders and teams harness their energy, discover their purpose, and achieve high performance under pressure. She does this by inviting her clients to adopt a curious champion mindset and utilizing proven coaching tools to unleash human potential.

Emma is a coach, mentor, and keynote speaker who is sought after around the world. She can help you turn your motivation into activation. She is a former D1 US college tennis player and has represented her native country of Australia as a world team coach on 20 occasions. Emma utilizes the lessons that she has learned from being an international high-performance tennis coach and transfers these skills into her corporate coaching. She is a qualified Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF) and a Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Emotional Intelligence certified practitioner.

Emma is deeply qualified to know ‘What Makes a Great Coach?’ which is the title of her first book. She believes that incorporating ‘coaching skills’ together with developing an individual’s or organization’s energy, purpose, and performance-under-pressure, are essential tools of the successful coach and leader. In addition, she is the host of The Coaching Podcast and has interviewed hundreds of expert sports and business coaches, with over 30 thousand downloads to date. Emma is a TEDx speaker (Unleashing Female Potential) and her clients say she is the real-life female version of Coach Ted Lasso, believing that it is more important to be curious than judgmental. When Emma is not inspiring, improving, and impacting her clients, she can be found playing golf, tennis, and pickleball or hiking the stunning mountains where she resides in Denver, Colorado.

Reviews

[Nathanael Small · Rating 4 out of 5]

for aspiring coaches everywhere…

Part autobiography, part informal research project interviewing world experts, the authors unpack what makes a great coach.

Filled with personal stories and insights from around the world, this book is a must read for anyone who seeks to make a difference in the lives of those entrusted to them.

With plenty of crossover into the world of work, it is both relevant and timely.

One for the bookshelf.