{"id":1238,"date":"2019-04-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/reports\/lessons-with-lancaster-eight-more-tips-on-building-great-relationships\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:12:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:12:35","slug":"lessons-with-lancaster-building-great-relationships","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/lessons-with-lancaster-building-great-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons With Lancaster: Eight More Tips on Building Great Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- blocks\/hero-editorial -->\n<!-- inc\/hero-editorial -->\n<div class=\"hero es-hero__editorial hero--var-1\" role=\"banner\">\n\t<div class=\"hero__image\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/lancaster-generic-3.jpg);\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"hero__overlay grad-overlay content-bottom\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content\">\n                    \n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t                            <p class=\"es-label es-label--md\">\n                                Apr 08, 2019                            <\/p>\n                        \t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\" class=\"theme-dark hero__back-link back-link es-label es-label--sm\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"icon icon--md icon--arrow-left\"><\/span>Articles<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"hero__title\">Lessons With Lancaster: Eight More Tips on Building Great Relationships<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n        \n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n    <section class=\"es-section theme-light hero__sidebar-wrapper container\">\n        <div class=\"hero__sidebar\">\n                            <div class=\"category-list\">\n                  <div class=\"es-label es-label--sm\">Category<\/div>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>                <\/div>\n                            <div class=\"share-list\">\n                  <div class=\"es-label es-label--sm\">Share<\/div>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/lessons-with-lancaster-building-great-relationships\/\">Facebook<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/lessons-with-lancaster-building-great-relationships\/&#038;text=Lessons With Lancaster: Eight More Tips on Building Great Relationships\">Twitter<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Here's a Leaders In Sport article for you &amp;body=Check out this article: Lessons With Lancaster: Eight More Tips on Building Great Relationships. https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/lessons-with-lancaster-building-great-relationships\/\">Email<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"#copyLink\" id=\"copyButton\" class=\"copy-link-clipboard\">Copy Link<\/a>\n                  <div id=\"textToCopy\" class=\"font-hidden\">https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/lessons-with-lancaster-building-great-relationships\/<\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<!-- blocks\/section -->\n<section\n  class=\"es-section flexible-section  text-only theme-light\"\n    >\n                <div class=\"container\">\n                                    <div class=\"bg-striped-pattern__inner section-padding-top section-padding-bottom\">\n                <div class=\"es-section__inner col-parent col-parent--stack-sm\">\n                                            <div class=\"es-section__sidebar es-section__sidebar--sticky col col--12 \">\n                                                            <p class=\"es-section__label es-label es-label--md\">Leinster Senior Coach Stuart Lancaster explains that your value as a leader increases the more you are able to give it to your athletes, coaches and support staff.<\/p>\n                            \n                            \n                            \n                                                            <div class=\"es-section__text content-area\">\n                                    <p><p><strong>&#8220;Leadership is not just about leading the masses &#8211; it&#8217;s about leading individuals. It&#8217;s about getting hold of people who work for you, spending time with them, making them feel valued, and seeing them grow.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Stuart Lancaster, Senior Coach at Leinster, delivers eight key tips on building great relationships as a leader in sport.<\/p>\n<p>They are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Create mutual wins for all parties in the relationship.<\/li>\n<li>Do this by making people feel cared for, giving them recognition and regular encouragement and development.<\/li>\n<li>If you give trust you will get trust.<\/li>\n<li>Understand your power as a leader increases as you give it away.<\/li>\n<li>Your listening to talking ratio has to be weighted in favour of listening. People have to feel their voice counts.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure you give your full attention to someone.<\/li>\n<li>Personalise recognition.<\/li>\n<li>Spend at least 15 minutes a day learning about the people that you lead.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Previous Episodes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance\/lessons-with-lancaster-team-building\/\">1. Lessons With Lancaster: 3 Top Tips for Building a Great Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance\/lessons-with-lancaster-introduction-to-communication-connection-extension\/\">1.2 Lessons With Lancaster: Introduction to Communication \u2013 Connection &amp; Extension<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance\/lessons-with-lancaster-communication\/\">1.3 Lessons With Lancaster: 20 Tips on How Leaders Can Improve their Communication<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance\/lessons-with-lancaster-maximising-energy\/\">1.4 Lessons With Lancaster:\u00a0Maximising Your Energy for the Greatest Connection<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance\/lessons-with-lancaster-10-leadership-qualities\/\">1.5 Lessons With Lancaster: 10 Leadership Qualities That Set the Best Coaches Apart<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance\/lessons-with-lancaster-19-qualities-of-great-leaders\/\">2.1 Lessons With Lancaster: 19 Qualities of Great Leaders<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance\/lessons-with-lancaster-10-emotional-characteristics-of-inspiring-leaders\/\">2.2 Lessons With Lancaster: 10 Emotional Characteristics of Inspiring Leaders<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance\/lessons-with-lancaster-developing-your-credibility-as-a-leader\/\">2.3 Lessons With Lancaster: Developing Your Credibility as a Leader<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance\/lessons-with-lancaster-building-your-leadership-philosophy\/\">2.4 Lessons With Lancaster: Building Your Leadership Philosophy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance\/lessons-with-lancaster-building-belief-your-teams\/\">2.5 Lessons With Lancaster: Building Belief in Your Teams<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance\/lessons-with-lancaster-understanding-emotional-intelligence\/\">3.1 Lessons With Lancaster: Understanding Emotional Intelligence Part I<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance\/lessons-with-lancaster-understanding-emotional-intelligence-2\/\">3.2. Lessons With Lancaster: Understanding Emotional Intelligence Part II<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance\/lessons-with-lancaster-leadership-styles\/\">3.4 Lessons With Lancaster: Understanding Six Leadership Styles<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance\/lessons-with-lancaster-self-belief-leader\/\">3.5 Lessons With Lancaster: Four Ways to Build Your Self-Belief as a Leader<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Want more great sport performance content, straight to you inbox? <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/email-signup\/\">Subscribe to our performance newsletters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                            \n                            \n                            \n                                                    <\/div>\n                                        <div class=\"col visibly-hidden col--flex-align-right\">\n                                            <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leinster Senior Coach Stuart Lancaster explains that your value as a leader increases the more you are able to give it to your athletes, coaches and support staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1239,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[1],"pathway":[],"topic":[],"sport":[],"class_list":["post-1238","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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