Sleep, Balance & Little Things

Leader Manager Coach Podcast

In this episode Rob reflects on key principles and the importance of ensuring their use across all elements of leading, managing and coaching.

He explores the tool kit of techniques and knowledge that everyone should be using to support the development of those they train and support, listen in to hear more.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The importance of sleep

Research has been put forward suggesting that by increasing the number of sleep hours to 10 in a day, some elite swimmers increased their level of performance significantly.

If we are leading managing and coaching high performers then rest recovery and sleep are key components that we should be promoting. This is especially important for adolescents when the demands of their physiological state are particularly high due to the growth cycle.

Research has demonstrated that successful people in the world worked extremely hard in deeply focused blocks of 6 to 8 hours maximum

• You don't always know what the full story is

Performance and behaviours can often deteriorate if a person has challenges in their personal life. By finding out what the back story is and fully understanding the situation you are in a position to ask ‘how can I help'

• Styles of coaching

Everyone will have a dominant style, and this will be a reflection of your education and personality. Being yourself is important and you will be guided by those who have educated and mentored you.

You will have a dominant style of your own but it's important to understand and be able to use other styles depending on the situation.

• Practise, practise

There are divergent thought processes around practice. If you want to improve a skill it is recognised that you isolate it and practise it repeatedly until it becomes an automated response.

Do you need to practise in isolation or in the environment that the skill will be utilised?

In order to execute a skill well you need to practise repeatedly but if you don't practise the skill in the environment it will be used, then the skill will not be employed as effectively because the person will be affected by situational factors.

• There are no such things as little things

The little things are important throughout our lives from including please and thankyou in a conversation to checking equipment is working properly.

In sports identifying small changes and making them can result in a much bigger and successful end result.

• The power of the human mind

The mind takes what you give it. The power of the mind is key to elite performance and elite athletes effectively use mindset and focused programming to achieve their success.

The power of the mind and how we use it is key in achieving our goals.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Is it a question of getting more sleep'

‘Is it about being a better listener with the people whose lives we influence'

‘Just taking a little step back and asking ‘am I balanced enough, am I using the right strategies to affect as many people as possible'

‘If I'm getting frustrated is it about making small changes that will add up to something bigger over time'

‘Are we putting into our all-powerful mental computer the exact focus thing that we want and allowing our minds to help us get there'

‘There's not one way that's absolutely right'

‘It's great to have a tool bag and a dominant style that is you'

‘Dan Abrahams, a vault of some much knowledge'

‘The most important alarm you set is the one to go to bed'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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ABOUT THE HOST

Rob Ryles is a UEFA A licensed coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, USA and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non-League and grassroots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience.

Rob Ryles prides himself on having a forward thinking and progressive approach to the game built through his own experience as well as lessons learned from a number of highly successful managers and coaches.

The Leader Manager Coach Podcast is where we take a deep dive examining knowledge, philosophies, wisdom and insight to help you lead, manage and coach in football, sport and life.

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