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By Sarah Evans & Luke Whitworth<\/h6>\n
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End of Q1 has arrived. On behalf of all the Leaders Performance Institute team, we thank you for all of your support and engagement so far in 2022 and look forward to even more high quality learning as we move into the next phase of the year.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

This month we held our first Leaders Meet of the year focused on Coach & Player Development, we\u2019ve facilitated some fascinating connections between different organisations and individuals from which nearly 100 people have benefited, there\u2019s been several stimulating Community Group conversations and we\u2019ve enjoyed interacting with you across our virtual roundtables \u2013 there\u2019s been some great topics of conversation to get stuck into. As always, there\u2019s plenty going on and more to come so keep your eyes peeled through the email communications and the My Account Page to keep up to date and to RSVP.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To continue the trend from January and February, we want to continue to share with you, our valued Performance Institute Members, what is going on across our different products, key learnings and challenges from your peers in the network. We hope this keeps you informed of the contemporary thinking across the high performance space and provides you with some inspiration to engage with the variety of opportunities on offer through your membership.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So what really stood out to us in March? Here, we outline the key takeaways from across a number of the sessions.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Leaders Meet: Coach & Player Development<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Our first Leaders Meet of the year took place at Cardiff\u2019s Principality Stadium and proved to be a resounding success. Members of the Leaders Performance Institute came from far and wide to discuss the dynamics of coach and player development. The event was split into four parts allowing us to focus on contemporary research the topic, a practical session to leverage the expertise in the room, a skills session, and, finally, a case study and conversation with two leaders in the field.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There were so many thought provoking conversations and takeaways, if you would like to read all of the key discussion points, you can <\/span>view those here<\/span><\/a>. We have decided to lean on the insights the wider group shared as part of our practical session. we asked the participants in the room to\u00a0come up with a number of recommendations around how the space of coach and player development needs to evolve. Here\u2019s what they identified:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Courage to challenge:<\/span><\/b> in a lot of programmes there can be an underpinning fear and a lack of psychological safety in offering sufficient challenge.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Specialism with caution:<\/span><\/b> exploring the power of specialism but appreciating the blind spots that can come with this.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Changing demographics in coaching pathways:<\/span><\/b> the demographic of those transitioning into coaching is changing.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Development of domain expertise:<\/span><\/b> a continuing area of opportunity is to enhance the expertise in specific domains (pedagogy, sciences etc).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Development space is disaggregated:<\/span><\/b> bring everything back together with performance at the heart in a more holistic way.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Bespoke learning pathway:<\/span><\/b> opportunities for coaches to have more options and take on a more self-directed learning approach.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Balancing elements of technical, tactical and social:<\/span><\/b> factoring this all in collectively. The humanistic element is often left out; so how can we make it more integrated?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

8. Enhancing learning environments by using technology:<\/span><\/b> imagine a coach you\u2019d benefit spending time with? What is the context you\u2019d like to be in with that coach? What would you like to interact with them on? Using technology and potential impacts of VR to create realities and enhance learning environments.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Virtual Roundtables<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Three virtual roundtables took place in the month of March \u2013 one topic-led conversations focused on the State of Player in Player Development. We also engaged in the second session of our exciting new Performance Support Series session \u2013 Leaders Performance Institute Performance Advisor Dr Meg Popovic led the second of a three-part series focused on \u2018Making Wellbeing A Core Component Of Your Organisational Culture\u2019. Finally, we had a Leadership Skills Session on people development. These conversations were full of insight, but we\u2019ve looked to lift our a number of key thinking points for you to mull over.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

State of Play in Player Development<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This topic-led virtual roundtable<\/span><\/a> was an excellent discussion between a diverse group of leaders from a variety of different sports. To kickstart the discussion, we posed the following questions and invited the leaders to share their own insights and experiences.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Across your respective programmes, what are you working on\/have identified as key priorities in terms of your player or talent development process? How are you working to influence the above in practice? We\u2019ve identified the points that came through most strongly for us:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n