How would you answer? Anyone who has experienced great coaching knows the interaction can feel almost magical. Somehow, the coach knows exactly what to say and when to say it. You feel challenged, supported, and confident in your coach’s ability to help you achieve your goals. While great coaching can seem effortless, the reality is many skills, attributes, experiences, and techniques came together to create that coaching magic. Coaching is about creating change. Great coaches produce great outcomes, in part, through what they do with athletes in the gym: teaching movement, identifying errors, cueing corrections, and pushing athletes to improve. These basic components of creating change also are very often missing when you watch a class run by a less competent coach. However, the question of what makes a great coach runs deeper and is more complex than the components above. Great coaches have many different skills and attributes that work in concert to create outcomes beyond the co...