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Another month brought ushered in some more quality learning and interaction across our Communities of Practice, Virtual Roundtables and network connections. As always, lots of nuggets taken away and a number of questions to take away and analyse in more detail.<\/h4>\n
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By Luke Whitworth<\/h6>\n

As always, with the various learning opportunities available at the Leaders Performance Institute, August’s interactions and conversations brought together practitioners from across high performance to discuss their current challenges and immediate priorities through a number of different learning environments.<\/p>\n

So what really stood out to us in August? What were some of the themes of the minds of the industry\u2019s top thinkers and where do we need to get better? Here are some of the key takeaways.<\/p>\n

Community Group Calls<\/strong><\/p>\n

Across our Community Group conversations – which bring together Leaders Performance Institute Members with similar job functions and challenges. This month, across all of our communities of practice, we focused on immediate priorities and areas of interest to each group. This month we will return to topic-specific discussions but, in the meantime:<\/p>\n

What are some immediate priorities for talent pathway leaders?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Across our talent and player pathways conversations last month, we took some time out to share what the immediate focuses are in the respective environments – it was interesting for each person to benchmark their progression.<\/p>\n

Here are five interesting focuses – do you have similar thinking?<\/p>\n

1. Focusing on the marriage between field scouting, analysis and analytics. How do we setup our organisation to be fit for purpose for the future and to tell a more holistic story of our players?<\/p>\n

2. In rugby, there is evidence to suggest female participation growth will outstrip male growth over the next five to ten years. How should pathway programmes respond to this?<\/p>\n

3. Better management of the transitions of players within our pathway programmes. How are we aligning support staff and coaches to better manage transitions up and down?<\/p>\n

4. Capturing feedback around the experiences and behaviours of players in those situations and feeding it back into the system.<\/p>\n

5. With external constraints and expectations, how do we find the optimal balance between challenge and support in our environments knowing both are crucially important across talent development?<\/p>\n

Chaos vs perfection<\/strong><\/p>\n

Across our coach development conversations last month, an interesting theme emerged aligned to the makeup of coaching session design. We delved into balance between chaos and perfection when it comes to coaching. Here are some points to consider:<\/p>\n