Coaching Generation Y: Kelvin B. Giles MA, Cert.Ed
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We live in an age where we all chase ‘best-practice', whether in sport, the corporate sector or the community at large. Much is written by the world's ‘leading lights' on this subject and many people look for their words of wisdom, often supported by dubious research and sprinkled with the ‘new-speak' jargon of today, to help them through daily life. Typical are the new breed of ‘life coaches' who hold the audiences attention by high quality oratory while emptying their wallets with the sale of the ‘new' answer to life's puzzle. I fully understand that what I attempt to set out here is probably verging on heresy, uncalled for under the spotlight of modern day coaching methodology and certainly not backed up by any research. To be honest I don't care. I am doing what my Dad did and his father before him - I am speaking my mind as an ‘old-fart' that the current generation of athletes, coaches, scientists and administrators will probably ignore as the ravings of a ‘has-been'.