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How I do that Recently I have been working with an ASX listed top 200 company and a major horse racing Club to assist their CEO’s and senior leadership teams not only espouse high performance, but also deliver it daily. In my work, it is critical to emphasise the intertwined…
ARE COACHES EDUCATORS OR TRAINERS? As all coaches know this question is too simplistic.
5 FACTORS TO MAINTAIN THE RAGE There are 5 factors which give a team leader the best chance of delivering peak performance consistently and constantly.
Be the disruptor not the disrupted. Don’t feel snowed in, catch what can be fielded from business and sport. The digital world is exciting but it seems to be overpowering – we are just snowed in! Well part of this new digital world came to Brisbane recently sponsored by FACCI….
Sport has become more professionalised over the past 20 years. Cricket is one of those sports which now seems to be undergoing the growing pains from amateur or semi-professional to a professionalised business. Recently with the Phil Hughes death at the wicket, the onfield arena was referred to as the…
While there is plenty to be done to complete a workable 4 year MOU between CA and ACA, it will get done – nothing surer. It is a necessity for both organisations. Beyond signing the new agreement, what are some of the outcomes? My business, Buchanan Success Coaching is about…
Story in the Sydney Morning Herald – John Buchanan calls for MCG Boxing Day and SCG New Year’s Tests to be dumped A little more background to the story if you have read it, and to start with the iconic Test matches. I have suggested that if CA deem the…
Change is always present in sport, business and life. But unless as individuals we can understand what the change is, and how it will affect or impact me, then we will resist. Better the devil you know than the one you don’t. As a new coach brought into the…
Technology in all its forms is transforming sport, business, the world. However, some technologies deliver unintended consequences which are not beneficial to the business. The use of a technology and a player review system call DRS has been at the centre of controversy in the current India- Australia Test series…
With the exit of former Australian Test gloveman, Rod Marsh as chairman of the Australian selection panel, it is a very appropriate time to consider new options for the national selection system. While I am not close to Australian cricket as I once was, I do hear from time to…
How many New Year resolutions will you make on the night of the 31st December? And more importantly, how may will you keep…..? When coaching the Australian cricket team at this time of the year, we would have completed a Boxing Day Test match in Melbourne and then head to…
In a recent interview with Peter Switzer on SKY NEWS Money, Peter suggested that both the Australian cricket team and the governing Liberal party have been not getting the results that should be coming from the talent and skills within the team. LISTEN HERE So he posed that one…
Part of being able to sustain success is to create a Game Plan for enduring success based on 5 pillars – 1) Vision and overarching strategy – When I started with the Australian team I told them we are going on a journey to ‘Everest’ together. I did not…
Looking at the issue with a different perspective – what was it that made me look at cricket from a different angle that departed from traditional coaching, for example computer technology? Applying for the role as Coach of the Queensland Bulls in 1994 was a watershed moment in my life. My…
As a coach, businessman or parent, your role as trying to make yourself as ‘redundant’ as possible. The concept of being redundant is part of the total philosophy, and connects directly with creating a learning environment and knowing the whole person. My goal as a parent is to gradually have…
Over the past 5-10 years, business and large corporations have been revisiting the best ways to manage staff and develop their people as one response to the changing demands on the organisation. These changing demands are internally driven by the so-called generation “x” and “y’s” , the fading numbers of…
When I talk with people, business, sport or life, and ask them – ‘..can you recall when you had a great day at work? Or what was a project or a match or a task that you completed and felt that that was the best you could do?’ Most people…
If I asked you to suggest some names that might occupy the title of a team, a business, an organization that is a market leader, a peak performance team, pending on your location and experiences some names would be Microsoft, Apple, Google, Walt Disney, Mercedes, The Beatles, the Bolshoi Ballet,…
During my time as Coach of the Australian Cricket team, I had the absolute privilege to meet some of the world’s most honoured leaders – from the Queen, to Prime Ministers and Presidents, to CEO’s and Board members of large global corporates, to religious leaders and of course to internationally…
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