Glenn Pocknall

The Great Coaches: Leadership & Life

Our Great Coach on this episode is Glenn Pocknall

Glenn is a cricket coach with over 20 years experience at the elite level. He started coaching in 2002, learning through coaching youth representative teams.

He eventually joined the Wellington Firebirds in the New Zealand National league as an Assistant coach. He then went to England, Ireland and the Netherlands to gather international experience and in eventually returned to New Zealand and became the Wellington Head Coach. In that role he led the team to win all 3 domestic titles, Ford Trophy (50over) in 2019, Plunket Shield (four day) in 2020 and back-to-back Super Smash (t20) titles in 2020 and 2021. In 2021 he was given his first chance to lead the New Zealand National team in a T20 series.

Glenn has a deep commitment to self development and the craft of coaching and in this gem of an interview

some of the key highlights were:

• The story of how he wrote a 10 year vision for himself that led him from being a factory worker to eventually coaching the NZ cricket team.
• The way he uses routines and imagery to help combat negative self talk with athletes.
• And The answer he gives around tryng not to give feedback but instead just to listen, and why this is difficult as the leader but can also be so powerful.

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