Interview questions Jim is ready to dig into. Copy them, tweak them, or bring your own.
1What specific moment or experience in your playing career made you start thinking about applying sports methods to business performance?
2How do you adapt a preparation and review cycle you use with Australian cricketers for a CEO or director?
3Can you walk us through a recent example where your coaching materially improved an elite athlete’s performance?
4What measurable outcomes do you track for executive clients to prove the sports-derived process is working?
5You said your niche is making people who are already good better - how does that change your intake process and coaching design?
6How did coaching players who play in the IPL influence the structure or intensity of your training and review systems?
7What common misconceptions do business audiences have when you explain sports performance concepts to them?
8How are you using written articles and podcast appearances together to build a consistent client pipeline?
9When choosing podcast appearances, what red flags or must-haves do you look for to avoid what you called “junk”?
10Over the next few years you want to double down on this work; what are the first practical steps you’re taking to scale coaching from individual clients to a broader program?