Cliff Mallett - Becoming a good High Performance Coach

What is good high performance coaching and leadership like? How do you create rapport and trust with the athlete? What are the best tools and methods for becoming a better coach? These are key questions I have been wrestling in my coaching career and also researched the topic in my sport psychology masters thesis. In this episode I got a fantastic opportunity to wrestle with these questions with Professor Cliff Mallett from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, whose research has played a key role in broadening my understanding of what it means to be a "good coach". Tune in to this episode if you want to understand what are the crucial ingredients in high performance coaching that facilitate success, and how can you become the good coach! 

Professor Cliff Mallett is a high performance specialist with PhD in sport psychology and extensive practical coaching background. Cliff has specialised in understanding the interdependencies between people and the complexities of high performance contexts to enable successful (winning) outcomes. He has coached many athletes to Olympic, World Championships, and Commonwealth medals in track and field athletics. Furthermore, he is a world renowned practitioner and applied researcher. He is Professor in sport psychology and coaching (University of Queensland and Technical University of Munich; EW Barker Professor NIE, Singapore), and has been regularly sought after within the corporate and academic worlds for his advisory and mentorship.

He has extensively consulted nationally and internationally across high performance contexts including:

International Olympic Committee (IOC); International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) now World Athletics (WA); International Council for Coaching Excellence (ICCE); Australian Football League (AFL); National Rugby League (NRL); Australian Rugby Union (ARU); Tennis Australia (TA); Essendon Football Club; North Melbourne Football Club (Kangaroos); Brisbane Lions Football Club; Gold Coast Suns; North Queensland Cowboys (NRL); Australian Sports Commission (ASC); Australian Institute of Sport (AIS); Queensland Academy of Sport (QAS)

Here more about Cliff:

https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/647

Links to tools and research discussed in this episode:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26172971/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308163361_The_Practices_and_Developmental_Pathways_of_Professional_and_Olympic_Serial_Winning_Coaches

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304404218_Serial_Winning_Coaches_People_Vision_and_Environment

https://www.guilford.com/books/The-Art-and-Science-of-Personality-Development/Dan-McAdams/9781462529322

https://bigfive-test.com/

https://casel.org/fundamentals-of-sel/

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2013-21899-040

In case interested to here more about tools like the strivings matrix, life story or other tools to develop as a high performance coach reach out to heikki@mentalrace.fi