On this episode of the Coaching Arena, it was brilliant to sit down with Premiership winning rugby player, Calum Clark.

Calum has played for Northampton Saints, Saracens and England and is the founder of Innate High Performance, working with individuals across sports and business.

Calum is a psychologist, coach and consultant.

This was an incredibly eye opening chat focusing on many aspects around psychology and performance.

The points on intent as a coach and keeping the end in mind were incredibly useful to me.

We spoke of many things, including :

• Seeing the end and building the process
• Whilst understanding athletes and individuals is important, the tactical part of the game remains vital also
• There are not one or the other aspects, but components to sport
• High performance
• Similarities of elite sports and business leaders
• What does performance look like
• Doing the right things on a day to day basis to achieve success
• Sport as a vehicle for personal development
• A coach's intent
• Team dynamics
• How to have difficult conversations
• The types of mistake

Check out Innate High Performance at https://www.innate.works/

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On this episode it was awesome to sit down with Cody Royle.

Cody coaches head coaches in elite sports.

Cody himself has coached AFL at international level with Canada. Cody now coaches elite head coaches across rugby, football, AFL, basketball and ice hockey to name a few.

He has written three books (Where Others Won't, The Tough Stuff and Second Set of Eyes), and is a podcast host.

This was a completely eye opening chat on sports coaching including :

• Coaching at a participation versus competitive level
• Trait theory
• Curiosity
• Coaching philosophy of the past and the future
• Sport being a subset of society
• Creating buy in
• Intuition
• The importance of culture

I really hope you enjoyed this chat, please do let me know what you think

Check out www.codyroyle.com for Cody's work

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On this episode, it was awesome to chat with Craig Stewart, skills coach at recent Japanese League One winning rugby union side, Kobe Steelers.

This was a fantastic chat, jam packed with insights from an elite coach.

We spoke of many things, including :

• Understanding the people you are working with
• The love of the game and enjoyment
• Traits of elite players
• Keeping clarity with simplicity
• Being a 'player first' coach and allowing the player to be the most important part of the puzzle
• The power of creativity
• Not having to be the cleverest in the room
• Having a growth mindset
• Why you should allow players to experiment
• Frameworks but why it is important to have players self correcting
• What is the most under coached and under valued skill

I really hope you enjoy this chat, let me know what you think

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