What Actually Makes A Great Coach (Not What You Think)

Timestamps

• 00:01 – Intro: checking we're actually live
• 00:46 – Welcome back: Sky Hill filling in for Nick this week
• 01:19 – My week off: track sessions, spoiled kids, and a lecture about buses
• 02:34 – Lexi's exam results and the CV pub crawl round Uppermill
• 04:10 – Running recap: a brutal new hilly route and 9k of intervals on the canal
• 05:26 – Sky's week: the Affex competition and what it actually involves
• 07:49 – Plan to clip Sky's Affex review for extra reach
• 08:02 – Q&A begins
• 08:14 – Going live with an online offer in a month, leads but no one obvious to ask for 1:1 first
• 10:09 – Should we run an SGPT panel at the conference (and maybe a podcast episode on it)?
• 11:57 – A prospect pushing for a month's free trial after already getting seven days
• 14:00 – Building the confidence to open a gym or small group setup in a new area
• 20:22 – The three most important skills a coach needs — Sky's answer
• 23:38 – The three most important skills a coach needs — my answer
• 27:02 – What's coming up: Connected Coach, the next Accelerator push, and the November conference
• 28:44 – Outro: no episode next week, bank holiday

Welcome back, it's been a rough week without me. I've been off with the kids for the week, Sky Hill's stepped in for Nick who's on his annual leave, and we open with the usual state of play before getting into a full listener Q&A.

I run through my week off, track sessions with the kids at Sports City, Lexi's exam results, and the now-legendary CV pub crawl round Uppermill where she handed her CV into half the bars in the village while I had a beer in every one of them. Sky's just come back from the Affex competition and gives a full breakdown of what it actually involves for anyone thinking about entering.

Then it's straight into questions from the coaches. We cover what to do when you've got a list of leads for a new online offer but no one obvious to approach for 1:1 first, whether an SGPT panel would work at the conference, how to handle a prospect trying to push a seven day free trial into a month, and how to build the confidence to open a gym or small group setup in a completely new area (which happens to be relevant to us right now too). We close out with the big one, the three most important skills a coach needs, and Sky and I both give our answers.

Quick look ahead: Sky and Nick's Connected Coach, the next marketing push for the Accelerator ahead of October, and the coaches conference on the 27th and 28th of November in Manchester.