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Empowering Conversations
did you know coaches often make situations worse rather than better when they talk with athletes?
Discover how to be a positive influence through conversations that support & empower athletes (& others) & create a positive, winning team culture.
Have you ever been frustrated by not being able to find the right words to help an athlete be at their mental and physical best?
Do you ever feel challenged with conversations about poor performance or having to release players & you would like to do it in a way that doesn't break their spirit?
Did you know that when many coaches have conversations with athletes they unintentionally make them feel threatened, hijacking the athlete's ability to think clearly and negatively impacting performance & well being?
Sometimes coaches have told me they have had conversations where they feel like the athlete hasn't heard them at all!
The secret to ensuring you have connected conversations with your athletes (or anyone), and helping them truly hear and understand you, lies in neuroscience.
Let me explain: The human brain is wired for survival.
In our hunter gatherer past it was vital for our individual survival to belong to a tribe.
As the coach, you are the leader of a "tribe".
Something as simple as a few ill considered words, or even a look of disapproval from the coach can be perceived by the athlete's brain as being rejected by the "tribe".
Even today our brains process rejection to mean a potential death sentence!
Rejection can hijack an athlete's brain making it less capable of functioning effectively.
performance conversations that empower, & not disempower, others.
You might think elite athletes shouldn't allow their brain to get hijacked by what you do.
The reality is, they often do. And it's not their fault. When the brain feels threatened, it goes into flight, fight or freeze mode.
The brain's ancient automatic survival response is very powerful and trumps all other parts of the brain's processing mechanisms when it kicks in. And a coach can very easily & unknowingly make it kick in.
When this happens, the brain no longer has the capacity to logically process new information.
After 40 years of experience in elite sport I have seen how a coach can unwittingly, adversely impact performance & well being.
Well being is linked to performance & the many pressures athletes face in pursuing their sporting dreams present risk factors for mental health.
And because coaches are the most important influence on an athlete, this means they are well positioned to minimise many mental health & performance issues before they escalate through having effective conversations.
This is not about...
a coach being an "athlete therapist" or being "nice", dancing around issues or being a parent to athletes.
This is about having powerful high performance conversations so athletes are empowered, regardless of what is being discussed whether it be performance, injury, ill-health or transition issues.
Not only can Empowering Conversations support athlete well being & performance, they contribute to building a positive culture & are a key FOUNDATION for developing a winning team.
The truth is that many coaches are not equipped to have these conversations.
And there are coaches who think that mental & emotional management is the domain of the sport psychologist.
However, every coach should understand the how to have day to day
high performance conversations that empower others.
Do you want to ensure that...
rather than potentially planting the seed for performance or mental health issues, that with every conversation you are steering athletes towards being more confident, capable & resilient?
I know it might sound extreme ....
The bottom line is that if you as a coach inadvertently set off a threat response, which is incredibly easy to do, athletes can't hear what you say. They can't make good decisions. They can't think straight.
to support your athletes perform at their best, you must know how to navigate around the super sensitive survival brain.
If you don't want to negatively impact athlete WELL-BEING & PERFORMANCE ...
it is vital you learn the neuroscience of conversations and follow a
a road map based on neuroscience to bring out the best in your athletes.
I'm sure you want to unleash an athlete's full potential, not hinder how athletes perform when you speak with them.
Having good intentions is not enough as a leader - you also have to have the skill to empower others.
The Empowering Conversations Program maps out all the important aspects of the neuroscience of conversations so you understand WHY you need to change how you have performance & personal conversations. It provides you with conversational frameworks to effectively navigate any conversation so you are heard and so you can empower your athletes to be their best both professionally and personally.
The big question on the mind of many coaches is "How can I best influence others?".
Many coaches are frustrated.
And not only with trying to influence athletes. They want to be able to easily & effectively influence administrators and other decisions makers in their sport, including selectors managers, staff, volunteers, board members, CEOs and other stakeholders.
I wish I would have known how to have more empowering and influential conversations when I was a softball coach, particularly when I was starting out as a professional coach.
There were key moments when I wanted to influence administrators to secure coaching positions or influence selectors so I could get the team I thought would be a winning combination.
And there were times when I quickly needed to move athletes out of a funk and into high performance thinking, & when I would have liked to better support athletes with the many & varied issues they encounter.
I did alright, but it was a bit hit and miss.
I didn't have a clear, proven approach to readily apply to have these important conversations.
I was good at building rapport, but I really was flying blind when it came to having a structure for useful, targeted and productive conversations - the type of conversations that positively influence and which can quickly transform athlete attitude and behaviour.
coaching licences and levels aren't enough....
Many sports provide detailed sport specific coach education. However, most coach education does not provide the depth of training in interpersonal communication. Existing training does not educate coaches to truly understand how to structure conversations to support, empower & positively influence others. Nor does training make it clear why certain approaches don't work.
Even after I had completed a Graduate Diploma of Elite Sports Coaching, I still didn't have this knowledge!
One thing I know now is that strategically positioned empowering conversations are the difference between being a good and great coach.
The Empowering Conversations Program fully immerses coaches in conversation models & provides a safe forum to practice, so by the end of the Program, the concepts are fully wired into your brain.
Would you benefit from having effective, proven frameworks to apply to your conversations?
There are essential scientific keys every coach must know so they can support athletes be their best & influence effectively.
For more than a decade I have immersed myself in the art of transformational conversations.
I made it my mission to find out how to have powerful & direct conversations that help people overcome barriers so they can be at their best. I dedicated myself to this pursuit & became a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation, & a coach mentor & assessor for the Neuroleadership Institute. In addition to being accredited in Neurolingistic Programming & hypnosis, I have supported hundreds of athletes across 20+ sports from Olympic to Professional to be at their personal & professional best.
What I have discovered is that it is more effective to help others when you truly understand & integrate key concepts regarding how the human brain operates & have simple models to apply in conversations.
What you will learn in the Empowering Conversations Program is that it is all about focus in the right areas & purposefully directing the conversation.
meet
Stephanie Gill
In addition to creating the Empowering Conversations Program, Stephanie is also the creator of several other group programs including the Inspiring Leaders Program, and the High Performers with Heart Group Coaching Program.
Since 2007, she has guided achievers in business and sport create personal and professional harmony so they excel in their careers, build outstanding relationships and build balanced, meaningful lives.
As well as being in the Coaching, Speaking and Education Business, she loves to write and sing a song or two & hang with her family.
Stephanie believes that when people direct their focus to what they want and connect to who they are at their best, they will be positively contagious leaders and change the world for the better.
She has devoted her life to transformation, connecting to the good in others and helping others share who they really are with the world. She is passionate about educating leaders to have conversations that uplift others to new heights of joy & excellence.
This is what Dr Kellie Pritchard-Pescheck says about the Empowering Conversations Program:
Dr Kellie Pritchard-Pescheck
“Confidence in my leadership abilities has moved from 4 to a 9 through learning these conversational skills. With a little more practise I will be a 10! The ECP has a unique blend of extremely high quality neuroscience-based content & practical "hands-on" learning opportunities with peers & Steph, who guides & supports through each stage of the Program. I would highly recommend this course for business owners & coaches.”
Dr Kellie Rose Performance Science
Consultant - Harper Performance
Is it time to be an even better coach?
Imagine feeling relaxed, confident and purposeful as you positively influence others with ease - whether it's an athlete, colleague, staff member, or family member.
Imagine knowing how to drive a conversation forward and navigating issues, no matter who you are speaking with or what the topic of conversation is.
Imagine directly communicating your point and knowing the exact questions to ask to help shift somebody in their thinking so they can move forward towards their goal.
What you're about to read will reveal the true secret why many business and sporting leaders have fractured relationships, & poor track records as influencers.
Stephanie Gill
Why Stephanie?
Why am I able to help you be a more inspiring, capable leader who empowers others through conversations?
It's not just because of my lifetime of experience in elite sport as a player & coach, or because of my years of government management experience. It's not even necessarily because I have been a teacher & executive coach, & a mentor & trainer in leadership & well being.
That's only a part of the reason. Let me share the REAL reason that may surprise you.
2006 was my year from hell.
It was the year I disconnected from who I was.
This horror year included finalising my father's estate, worrying about my mother's deteriorating mental health, & trying to navigate an unworkable organisational restructure which tripled my workload. I had a two year old at home & was in a 3 day a week job share where my job share partner was taken offline & my director resigned. I also had three hospital visits in six months from two miscarriages and a shoulder reconstruction.
After a conversation with the Executive Coach I was seeing to help navigate through the organisational restructure, she pointed out what, in retrospect, was obvious. I was depressed.
After getting to a place of acceptance around the depression, which wasn't easy for a high achieving self-proclaimed optimist who thought this wasn't in her make up, I put some strategies in place & took leave from work to reflect & consider a way forward.
I continued to see the Executive Coach. During one session the focus turned to previous conversations I had with an Executive Director which hadn't gone so well.
As my coach helped me to reflect on what had unfolded, it was then I uncovered the real secret to my conversational woes. I had a crucial insight - I was a key contributor to these conversations ending up where I didn't want them to go! I realised it was how I was focussed in these conversations that was a huge factor in things heading in the wrong direction! And not only that, I realised that it wasn't just these conversations this applied to, but conversations with many others.
I was creating the unwanted outcomes. And NOT JUST IN MY CONVERSATIONS but in MY LIFE - both at work and at home. Oh dear.
It was most brutal, important and empowering "aha" moments I had ever had.
I knew that if I had created these outcomes from how I was focussed, I could create better results if I consciously chose to focus in the right way!
This launched me into my career as an executive & life coach.
In the years to follow I became dedicated to educating myself to the field of human behaviour and transformation. In addition to multiple coach education courses based on neuroscience, I learned other modalities such as mindfulness, neurolinguistic programming and hypnosis.
I have incorporated the best of each of these modalities and combined them with the knowledge gained from over a decade of 1 on 1 coaching experience to create the Empowering Conversations Program.
But you don't have to spend the next 10 + years learning all of this. You can take a short cut & condense your learning into just under 6 months & benefit from my years of experience.
YOU CAN DO THIS!
It's time to step into the leader you really are & empower yourself and others to take things to a new level of excellence.
How? CHANGE YOUR CONVERSATIONS - with yourself and others.
KEEP READING - you will see the importance of truly connecting & influencing athletes & others with ease & authenticity .
It took me over 50 courses, tens of thousands of dollars, 12 years of high performance conversations and months of continuous work, but I finally put what I know all in one place to share in a unique training so you can learn how to empower others through the art of conversation.
Now, I that I have piloted the Empowering Conversations Program (ECP) - the sum of my lifetime of experience in this area - I want to share it with sports coaches like you.
Now, you can have empowering conversations too.
Inside the Empowering Conversations Program, there are 3 comprehensive modules with 19 in-depth units delivered via fortnightly video training lessons. You also get pdfs of the models, worksheets and audio files, fortnightly group coaching calls and fortnightly 1 on 1 partner practice calls to allow you to fully integrate the learnings.
Here's what you are going to get in the
Empowering Conversations Program (ECP):
MODULE 1: NEUROSCIENCE & INTENTIONAL CONVERSATIONS
9 Units covering:
MODULE 2: DRIVING CONVERSATIONS FORWARD
7 Units covering:
MODULE 3: EMBEDDING & TRANSFORMATION
3 Units covering:
OTHER BONUSES INCLUDE:
Exclusive Facebook Community
A private Facebook community to keep you accountable to the Program & allow you to get feedback & support from both myself and other Program participants.
If you wished you ever had a like minded, supportive, readily accessed pool of people you can tap into at any time, you will have this with this group of some of the most inspiring individuals you have ever met.
Every single one of them have experienced the communication challenges you are having, & are ready and willing to help you get to where you want to be as an inspirational leader. Don't be surprised if you continue to remain in contact with the other participants long after the Program ends!
This is about the opportunity to learn in a non-judgmental environment with like-minded high performing community members.
ECP Result Maximisation Emails
Over 6 months, you'll receive multiple customized emails designed to motivate, encourage & keep you on track so that you know exactly what you need to do so that you finally start having the type of conversations you want to have, without the stress.
Empowering Conversation Templates
Get the exact templates I crafted over 12 years & use with my clients to lead them to empowering results.
This is not about having conversations to be “nice”.
It is about being a valuable sounding board that can be instrumental in driving high performance outcomes & supporting the other person excel personally & professionally.
It's about having practical models you can immediately apply to start improving results for the better.
This is what Judo coach, Anna had to say:
“I felt Em-powered to connect a lot better in many aspects of my life. It was one of the best commitments I have made with my time. I learned to speak with purpose & connect with the other participants. Thanks Stephanie for all of your expertise and input. This has been very valuable to me. I can now make a bigger difference every day. Thank you for the opportunity to complete a course I will never forget.”
Anna Rassmussen, Judo Coach
Where else are you going to get this depth of training with the flexibility to meet your schedule?
You can work from the comfort of your own home or wherever you may be in the world!
All you need is your computer & an internet connection.
you won't find another communications course like this.
Flexible, convenient, comprehensive
Many communication courses are delivered face to face as a one off workshop. You cannot embed significant permanent changes in one day.
Your brain learns by continued, consistent conscious focus & personal application of concepts.
The ECP allows you to permanently change the way you communicate so the changes are embedded & become your default way of conversing.
Each and everyday we have crucial conversations. Conversations where we influence others - for better or worse. Every conversation counts.
Wouldn't it be amazing to know that you leave others in a more powerful and inspired place after each conversation?
The only thing standing in your way is the knowledge and practice to understand where you might be going wrong and how you can set things right.
Even if you don't see yourself as an inspiring person or are new to your role & doubt your ability to fully support others to find their own best solutions, there is no need to worry.
The best way to start is by working with a proven system that produces a great result every time. All you have to do is apply the system.
Maybe you lack the confidence in even starting conversations that you know you need to have whether it is with athletes, staff, volunteers, or maybe your significant other?
And doesn't it make you feel guilty when you say something you didn't mean out of nervousness or anger?
We have all been there at some point in our past.
That's why I created the Empowering Conversations Program so you never have to feel doubtful and unsure again in conversations.
Is it time to be the best coach you can be?
Do you want to be a positive influence?
If you are ready to take your conversations to the next level, then click the button below to get started straight away.
The Empowering Conversations Program is 24 weeks of comprehensive support. This ensures you get all your questions answered and that you fully integrate the learnings into your life.
As an added bonus, previous participants have said that through the ECP they have received clarity on their own problems, life & decisions. Double bargain!
Who is the Empowering Conversations Program for?
This is for emerging or established coaches who:
Who is the Empowering Conversations Program NOT for?
This Program is not for everyone. It is NOT for coaches who:
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Why I am offering this at such a bargain price?
Because I really believe in these communication models. I know they work. They have changed my life & the life of many of my clients.
I'm on a mission to help people connect - to understand & help each other. I am on a mission to change the landscape of sport.
I want a sporting industry that understands conscious and mindful communication can be a game changer. I want a sporting industry where the coaches, who are the greatest influence on athletes, have the communication skills they need to support athletes be their best inside and outside of sport. I know these models can do that.
The beauty of this course is that you will have access to me for 24 weeks to guide you in your learning.
....so...that's 24 weeks working with me for an absolute fraction of the price it would cost to work one-on-one with me with a typical coaching series with me for 3 months being an investment of $3,000+.
And, you will walk away with communication skills which will serve you and others for the rest of your life.
I would love to help you to be more of a positive influence & feel more calm, certain, confident & capable in your conversations.
Do you want to empower your athletes?
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