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Who Is Miranda Banks?

Author of best selling book, "Fitter, Faster, Stronger, Smarter". Dynamic and insightful, Miranda Banks is a leading performance psychologist who works with her clients to develop their performances in life, sport or business.

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Fitter, Faster, Stronger, Smarter. Training for the performance of life

Latest works: Through her work as a performance psychologist with elite professional sports people, Miranda Banks knows the challenges faced by those striving to achieve.

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Doing Presence For Sport - A Competitive Presence

A Competitive Presence

Whether for sport or some business transactions, a Competitive Presence can give you the edge before you even open your mouth. A Competitive Presence is Roger Federer walking onto Centre Court and showing this is his place - and his competition is merely an interloper. Business is the same. Competitive Presence is a very effective tool for immediately placing the opposition at a disadvantage because they can feel they're faced with an implacable opponent. The energy emanating from a Competitive Presence is truly "Compete. Win."

One of the keys to success in professional and elite sport is that development of "Presence" on the court, field, road or in the pool. Coaches and managers can forget that they send out their team into an environment where, often, the coach or manager is not participating. It is therefore not enough, for team games of sport or business, for the skipper alone to have the Competitive Presence: it needs to be developed in all key team members for ultimate success.

Some of the benefits of developing a Competitive Presence are:

• You immediately place your opponent at a disadvantage so shorten your odds of winning heartily
• The reaction of your opponent reinforces your positive belief in your own ability to win
• You have the benefits of exuding intimidation whilst also activating your brain to be aware of subtleties happening around you, giving you the benefits of maximum anticipation, and therefore preparation, for what happens next

More on Presence

Presence For Business ~ Influential Presence
Presence For Sport ~ Competitive Presence

Testimonials

"Through the years I have worked with Miranda, she has helped me develop personally and professionally both on and off the field. Miranda has helped the team and I deal with many significant issues throughout her time at Queensland Rugby including change of head coaches, player suicides, team disharmony, leadership issues and team losses. Each player knew you could call on her at any time and she would drop anything to provide immediate assistance." Professional rugby player.

Publications

I wrote Fitter, Faster, Stronger, Smarter (FFSS) for my clients and radio listeners to have reference material on the coaching process that I use. Whether you're a sporting or corporate athlete, or wanting to coach the best in others, you'll find it an easy-to-read, systematic guide to performance enhancement. I am also working on my second book.

Events

I give seminars, workshops and keynote presentations on the varied elements of performance coaching for sport, business and life around the country. I also facilitate strategic team meetings and frequently develop workshops and talks for private organisations in business and sport. Please contact me for further information.