Deliberate Practice

This is often summed up as the 10,000 hours rule but the emphasis on hours alone misses the point of deliberate practice.

The real key to mastery through deliberate practice comes down to three ingredients: learn by doing, quality over quantity, and realtime performance feedback. The Coach Academy provides you with more hands-on training opportunities to continuously reinforce your learning.

Psychological Safety

Trying to learn anything new is uncomfortable because you go from being an expert in the old way to a beginner in the new way. Until your confidence in your newly acquired skills crosses a certain threshold, it's natural to hold back and revert to what you know. This stifles your progress.

The key to making this transition is building a safety net. In the Coach Academy, we separate skills acquisition from skills application where you can practice freely through simulations and low stakes conversations.

Perceptual Learning

Perceptual learning, sometimes called “learning without thinking”, is how you get to shrink 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to 1,000 hours. Research shows that while many experts often struggle to explain how they do what they do, others can learn from them simply through observation. Our brains are pattern matching machines that connect the dots in ways that we don’t fully understand.

In the Coach Academy, we implement perceptual learning through case-studies, Q&A sessions, and shadow coaching where you get to see other more-experienced coaches in action.