"The only time you will know you have done a good job is when they choose your nursing home!

Richard Shorter has spent his life committed to supporting families to improve their communication and relationship dynamics. He set us www.non-perfectdad.co.uk to provide a space for sporting parents to help to navigate the dynamic world of sport for young people.

In this illuminating and energising conversation Richard unloads 20 years of knowledge about the challenges of parenting into an hour and a half conversation that is rich with valuable ideas!

Many of these ideas have been encapsulated in Richard's new book 'Conversations for the Journey - 40 ways to build sporting character' which can be purchased at his website using a special promo code especially for Talent Equation subscribers. Use the link below to get your discount.

https://non-perfectdad.co.uk/talentequation/

The book has been really useful for me in the few short weeks that it has been in my possession so I can't recommend it highly enough.

Hope you enjoy our conversation as much as I did!!

New Podcast: "The decision comes before the action...but we teach it the other way around"

This is a great chat with FA Coach Development Manager, Jack Walton. Jack has a wealth of experience in coaching and working with coaches so he has seen and experienced many of the challenges that most coaches face...

In this episode we discuss:

• How Jack challenged me when he was listening to one of my workshops

• How he helps coaches to develop coaching philosophy

• His clubs approach to developing players

• His thoughts on Nurture v Nature

• Why decision making is so difficult to develop in players

and loads more....

Enjoy

5000+ miles in the search for new coaching knowledge - a conversation with Nick Hill

Nick Hill is probably one of the most committed coaches to his personal development that I have ever met. His quest for continuous improvement has taken him to all corners of the globe from Australia, to New Zealand to Chile and the US.

If coaching expertise was measured in air miles then this guy has to be in the premier league!

Nick's career has seen him working in talent environments for most of his career and his dedication to his craft really shines through in this episode.

In this conversation we discuss...

• How being coached by Brian Ashton while representing England U19s was a turning point in his career. Driving him to become a coach and do it better than he had done before.

• His journey from being a drill based, instructional coach to a player centred, facilitation style coach and why this has made him choose a more game based approach.

• How he overcame the language barrier while working in Chile by tapping into the 'language of rugby'

• His methods for getting buy in and developing goals with groups of players

• How he allows techniques to develop by being patient and using clever practice design.

• The challenges of introducing a new set of players to his approach and how he overcomes negative responses.

As always, listen in the player below or subscribe in itunes here

Happy listening

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