Timothy Golvey ( born W. Timothy Gallwey ; born in 1938 ) is an American business coach, author of a series of books describing his own method of increasing personal and professional effectiveness, the so-called “internal game”. Golvey's book, The Indoor Tennis Game, has been published in over a million copies and has become an international bestseller. The Golvey technique is widespread and is used in sports, business, healthcare and education.
| Timothy Galvey | |
|---|---|
| W. Timothy Gallwey | |
| Date of Birth | 00.00.1938 |
| Place of Birth | San Francisco California |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Occupation | business coach, writer, consultant |
| Website | The Inner Game Website |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 History of the method
- 3 The essence of the method
- 4 Bibliography
- 4.1 Books published in Russian
- 4.2 Books published in English
- 5 Book Reviews
- 6 notes
- 7 References
Biography
Timothy Galvey was born in 1938 in San Francisco , California . He served in the U.S. Navy . In the 1960s, he studied English literature at Harvard University and was the captain of the university tennis team [1] . He was one of the founders of the College of Humanities in the Midwest, where he worked as the director of the admissions committee. In 1969-1971, leaving work in the field of education, he was a tennis coach at a sports club in California [2] .
In 1974, he published a book, The Inner Tennis Game, in which he first described his vision of coaching in business. The book has become an international bestseller [3] . Subsequently, he published several more books describing the application of the “internal game” method in various sports and business.
Timothy Golvey founded the consulting company The Inner Game, which applies business training based on the method he proposed in various spheres of life and work. Golvey's clients include companies such as IBM , AT&T , Coca-Cola Company , Arco , Anheuser-Busch, and Apple Computer.
Currently, Timothy Golvey is a business coach at the International Institute “Performance Consultants”, founded by one of his followers and students, British business coach John Whitmore [4] .
Method History
Timothy Galvey writes that the idea of an internal game came to his mind while working as a tennis instructor. It turned out to be convenient to study the processes of learning and change with the example of sports, due to clarity of goals and the ability to directly and immediately observe achievements. The big difference between the best and worst results is obvious and cannot be explained solely by the lack of ability. The differences are directly related to the way of training or the implementation of changes in performance. Golvey noted that trusting the expert assessment of the coach, the athlete reduces his responsibility to the level of accurately fulfilling what he is told. As a result of this approach, the student’s willingness to improve and bear responsibility for this training suffers.
The essence of the method
According to Golvi’s wording, the opponent in the head is much more dangerous than the opponent on the other side of the “grid”. The task of the coach is to help the player eliminate or mitigate internal obstacles. As a result, the natural ability of a person to learn and achieve efficiency will be manifested. The purpose of the "inner game" is to reduce any interference in the disclosure and embodiment of the full potential of a person. [5]
Business training is based on “awareness, trust and choice”, that is, on trust in an unappraised consciousness (“I 2” in the terminology of Golvey) and providing the first student with the right to choose.
Applying the internal game method in companies is to find the best ways to manage change. Tasks:
- To help all employees of the company learn to learn and think independently;
- Help managers learn how to be business trainers;
- Help leaders learn how to create “learning organizations” [6] .
Golvey felt the very essence of coaching. Coaching reveals the potential of a person and thus helps him achieve maximum efficiency.
- John Whitmore "The Inner Strength of a Leader. Coaching as a Personnel Management Method"
Bibliography
Books published in Russian
- Timothy Golvey. Work as an internal game. Unleashing Personal Potential = The Inner Game of Work: Focus, Learning, Pleasure, and Modility in the Workplace. - M .: “Alpina Publisher” , 2012. - 266 p. - ISBN 978-5-9614-1981-8 .
- W. Timothy Galloway. Tennis. Successful Game Psychology = The Inner Game of Tennis. - M .: Olymp-Business , 2010 .-- 208 p. - ISBN 978-5-9693-0164-1 .
Books published in English
- Gallwey, W. Timothy. The Inner Game of Tennis. - 1st. - New York: Random House, 1974. - ISBN 0-394-49154-8 .
- Gallwey, W. Timothy. Inner tennis: playing the game. - New York: Random House, 1976. - ISBN 0-394-40043-7 .
- Gallwey, W. Timothy; Kriegel, Robert J. Inner skiing. - 1st. - New York: Random House, 1977 .-- ISBN 0-394-42048-9 .
- Gallwey, W. Timothy. The Inner Game of Golf. - 1st. - New York: Random House, 1981. - ISBN 0-394-50534-4 .
- Gallwey, W. Timothy. Inner Game of Winning. - Listen USA, 1985. - ISBN 0-88684-064-3 .
- Green, Barry; Gallwey, W. Timothy. The inner game of music. - 1st. - New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1986. - ISBN 0-385-23126-1 .
- Gallwey, W. Timothy. The Inner Game of Work. - New York: Random House, 2000. - ISBN 0-375-50007-3 .
- Gallwey, W. Timothy. The Inner Game of Stress: Outsmart Life's Challenges, Fulfill Your Potential, Enjoy Yourself. - New York: Random House, 2009 .-- ISBN 1-4000-6791-X .
Book Reviews
Notes
- ↑ Timothy Galvey's Bigspeak.com page (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Timothy Galvey, 2012 , p. 109.
- ↑ The New York Times bestsellers
- ↑ Timothy Galvey's page on Performance Consultants
- ↑ John Whitmore. The inner strength of the leader. Coaching as a personnel management method = Coaching for Performance: Growing Human Potential and Purpose. - M .: “Alpina Publisher” , 2012. - 312 p. - ISBN 978-5-9614-1972-6 .
- ↑ Tim Gallwey - BigSpeak Motivational Speakers Bureau