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Stuart Armstrong
Feb 9
The Eighth Waste
During my early morning dog walk, with Flo wearing her flashing collar in the darkness, I found myself reflecting on some recent...
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Stuart Armstrong
Jan 28
Why do you coach the way that you coach?
Adapted and inspired by EIS 'Curriculum Project' I must have asked this question to more than 10,000 coaches in my career. To me it is...
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Stuart Armstrong
Jan 7
Will sport embrace AI?
This LinkedIn post from a good friend and colleague, Ollie Bell , tells the story of him booking a table at a local pub over the phone...
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Stuart Armstrong
Jan 2
Should ex athletes be able to short cut coach education?
It is a sporting story as old as time...the legend of the game that gets a job as head coach in a prestigious elite role... or the ex...
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Stuart Armstrong
Dec 23, 2024
The Academic Grinch
“The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason.” That is one of the...
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Stuart Armstrong
Dec 20, 2024
Coaching Poker
This isn't just about methods - it's about the theories that make the most sense to us and using them to enable us to have a clear rationale
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Stuart Armstrong
Dec 15, 2024
The power of the guide by the side…
This LinkedIn post from Joe Fredericks from PCA really connected with me… It spoke to so many aspects of how I think about how people...
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Stuart Armstrong
Dec 12, 2024
Escaping the ‘battery farm of learning’
This post from Nick Shackleton-Jones on Linked In connected with a few thoughts that emerged from the UK Coaching Summit event yesterday...
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Stuart Armstrong
Nov 30, 2024
Blended learning is dead...arise 'social learning'
In her fantastic book 'Uncivilised: 10 lies that made the west' , Subhadra Das argues that traditional models of education, with their...
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Stuart Armstrong
Oct 28, 2024
Kindness is infectious...
In a recent podcast, I had the privilege of speaking with Troy Urdahl. Troy was brought up in a family of Hall of Fame coaches in...
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Stuart Armstrong
Sep 25, 2024
What have lemon meringue pie and coach education got in common?
In this episode, I talk about how we can deconstruct coach education to help make coach education more 'learner-centred'. I explain the...
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Stuart Armstrong
Feb 11, 2024
'Talent is everywhere...but opportunity is not" - a conversation with Sion Kitson and Brett Holland
I recently had a conversation with two people who I consider to be changemakers in the talent development space. Brett Holland and Sion...
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