What are your key leadership behaviours?

Hi everyone welcome to another edition of the Coach Insight newsletter. This week’s highlights includes insights on leadership, a Steven Gerrard interview, dealing with mistakes as a goalkeeper, creating sessions related to how you want you players to attack and defend spaces, and much much more!

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The top ten

1. A great thread from John Mills to start. He presents 9 key behaviours from his PHD on leadership.

   John Mills  @drjpmills

   I spent 10+ years studying leadership to understand how to be a better coach and mentor. I achieved a PhD for my work on leadership with a range of Premier League and International football managers. Here are the 9-key behaviours I think all leaders should understand 🧵

2. Next up is Gary Neville’s podcast the overlap. some wonderful insight from Steven Gerrad into his coaching career, his beliefs, and his approach to his job.

3. Michael Loftman here with his 11 tips to improve your efficiency when coaching. which do you do now and which will you start to do. I said before but coaching interventions will always be a big concentration of mine, can you intervene less and allow more self-learning?

   Michael Loftman @michael_loftman

   8 Tips to Maximise Efficiency during your Coaching Sessions: 1/11

4. Trying to improve the composure of your young players? well here are five tips from the top tekkers team on how to do just that. https://www.toptekkers.com/blog/5-ways-to-improve-composure

5. The goalkeeper’s mindset team here with a thread on how to deal with mistakes as a goalkeeper. One of the most demanding positions mentally, especially when you’ve made a mistake. Can you pass on this advice to your goalkeepers?

   The Goalkeepers Mindset @TheGKMindset

   How to Deal with Mistakes as a Goalkeeper: A Thread

   

6. Roshan here talking through the types of sessions you could create to show how you want your team to attack and defend space. Some clever thinking.

   The Field of Green @roshanrao_

   Following my previous tweet, I tried to visualise the space distribution in different phases of the game (red=defensive spaces, blue=attacking spaces) and how they influence the game model a team tries to play, along with the training session design. #coaching #theory

   

7. The modern coaching team here with 5 ways to maximise positional training. consistency, flow, relevancy, strength-based, and effective feedback. https://www.modernsoccercoach.com/post/five-ways-to-maximize-positional-training

8. interview with Alan Irvine from the coaching manual team here with his tips for young coaches. Although it may be tips for young coaches, it can be great to go over things you may have forgotten as a more experienced coach.

9. Looking for some templates to help with your session planning? The sporting influencer team with 5 free session templates https://thesportinginfluencerblog.wordpress.com/session-plan-templates-3/

10. David Moyes here in an interview with the coaching manual team talking through the key points to read the game when defending.

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