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Hosted by René Sonneveld · education · EN
Navigate life’s complexities with clarity and confidence. Join experienced coach Rene Sonneveld as he shares powerful perspectives and actionable insights for personal growth, harmonious family dynamics, and effective leadership.
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Signup to Generate a PitchNavigate life’s complexities with clarity and confidence. Join experienced coach Rene Sonneveld as he shares powerful perspectives and actionable insights for personal growth, harmonious family dynamics, and effective leadership.
Coaching The Elephant is hosted by René Sonneveld. The show has published 99 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Impact of Pressure on Sports Performance" (29 October 2026, 7 minutes), "Psychological Safety in the Sports World" (29 October 2026, 7 minutes), and "Mental Skills Training for Rugby Players and High-Performance Athletes" (29 October 2026, 8 minutes).
Coaching The Elephant publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 9 minutes across 99 episodes.
Booking probability for Coaching The Elephant is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Coaching The Elephant requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Coaching The Elephant's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for Coaching The Elephant are Business & Professional Training and Business & Management Consulting. Coaching The Elephant has an education audience.
René Sonneveld hosts Coaching The Elephant, an education podcast with 99 episodes published.
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Episode #122
Pressure is an inevitable part of competitive sport, but how athletes interpret and respond to it can significantly affect their performance. By recognising their expectations, focusing on the task at hand and reframing...
Episode #121
Psychological safety allows athletes to express concerns, acknowledge mistakes and show vulnerability without fear of judgement. By building trust, openness and mutual support, sporting teams can strengthen cohesion...
Mental skills are just as important to high performance as physical preparation, technical ability and experience. Through deliberate practice, athletes can develop the focus, resilience and emotional control needed to...
Episode #119
Mental performance coaching helps athletes and professionals strengthen skills such as concentration, motivation, confidence and resilience. The article explores the evidence behind coaching techniques like...
Episode #118
Mental performance coaching helps soccer players develop focus, confidence, mental strength and better decision-making on the field. By addressing psychological barriers alongside physical and technical training, teams...
Episode #117
Attitude is not a fixed trait but a learnable, changeable state - how a person is prepared for whatever the environment presents. Built on the think-feel-act principle, this article maps four stages of attitudinal...
Teams with high psychological safety keep their people, earn more and are rated effective twice as often. This article uses two nuclear disasters, Fukushima and Chernobyl, to show what happens when authority cannot be...
Episode #115
Beyond credentials and resumes, every leader has distinctive strengths that shape their impact. Drawing on coaching more than 200 Executive MBA students at Booth School of Business, this article describes how to...
Episode #114
Only 12% of leaders show effective interpersonal skills, and barely a third of employees trust their leadership. This article examines the two personality dimensions behind those numbers, sociability and interpersonal...
Episode #113
Only 12% of leaders show effective interpersonal skills, and barely a third of employees trust their leadership. This article examines the two personality dimensions behind those numbers, sociability and interpersonal...
The Semmelweis reflex is our tendency to reject evidence that contradicts what we already believe. From the physician who cut childbed fever mortality tenfold and was institutionalised for it, to Kodak dismissing...
Episode #111
Psychological safety is not the engine of performance; it is the anchor that has to be raised before the ship can move. Using the 1977 Tenerife runway collision, where a flight engineer hesitated to challenge his...
Has traditional leadership become obsolete? This article argues the opposite: leadership still matters, but it has to absorb new expectations. It distinguishes leadership traits from leadership styles, and examines...
Episode #109
Remote work is not a temporary arrangement, and forcing people back to the office is not a leadership strategy. This article argues that communication is the most critical and most underestimated part of managing...
Episode #108
Fear has been used as a motivator since the assembly line, and many managers still believe in it. Drawing on Google's Project Aristotle and Amy Edmondson's work, this article explains why fear is counterproductive...
Episode #107
The old riding proverb warns against swapping horses on unstable ground mid-crossing. This article applies it to leadership decisions, through three situations: the MBA graduate under pressure to change jobs, the...
Telling people to speak up is not enough; organizations have to build the conditions that make it normal. Using the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster as a warning, this article sets out six practical steps for creating...
An accomplished sports coach knows that winning takes more than individual talent. Drawing on years of working alongside elite team coaches, this article examines three skills corporate leaders can borrow: interpersonal...
Episode #104
Empathy is an overlooked engine of business growth. Through the story of Albert Cramer, who sent Warsteiner employees out to see the market through the eyes of outlet owners and drinkers rather than commissioning...
Sustainable, high-performing teams share three characteristics: culture alignment, positivity and productivity. This article maps four cultural models shaped by hierarchy and rapport - Troops, Believers, Virtuous and...
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