Compassion and Empathy was the unexcepted theme to this episode when Riki talks with former All Blacks Coach Sir Steve Hansen on why it’s so important to advocate for your players. Sir Steve gives you a great insight to his journey coaching journey and how his experiences have shaped him as a coach and at the heart of it is his love for his players. 

Have you ever wondered why when you’ve introduces a new skill or drill to help improve performance, but the opposite happens? In this episode Riki talking to the creator of the Learning Pit, educator James Nottingham. You’ll hear from James the journey a player will go through when they are learning or developing a new skill and he’ll also give you some great stratagies to help support your players out of the Learning Pit. 

Resources 

 LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/jamesnottingham 

Website - LearningPit.org 

Accountability and Self-Motivation are just two of the qualities that it takes to be a jet pilot and, in this conversation, Riki talks to Jet Pilot instructor Theon Te Koeti on how do you train fighter pilots and how important their briefing and debriefing meetings are so important and how he currently implementing this bottom-up approach to the medical industry and how we can adapt it to our sporting team environments. 

Resources 

LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/tkdicerra 

Website - https://www.dicerra.com/home 

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/dicerra/?originalSubdomain=ca 

In this episode, Riki chats with New Zealand Rugby's, Participation Development Manager Mike Hester about participation and the importance of why making the game centred around the participants will keep our game growing and moving forward and how being at the edge of innovation and sharing ideas helps that growth. 

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Today, Riki is joined by Joe Maddock to talk everything attacking rugby and diving deep into everything from setting up your attack to how you can coach it. 

Riki is joined by UC's Sarah-Kate Millar and Susan Dawson to talk about skill acquisition and how this translates into a coaching environment.

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Thank you for tuning into today’s episode, as we dip our toes into the world of motivational interviewing and find out how to have better conversations with your players to help get the most out of them and we’ve got no better guest than Dr Joel Porter. Dr Joel Porter is a clinical phycologist and is a Motivational Interviewing Trainer, right here in New Zealand.

Riki chats to fellow Game Developer Mark Croft on his new role amongst the Canterbury Rugby team, his journey in coaching and what he finds important in the world of coaching, from skill and culture development.

This was meant to be a conversation around leaning into professional development from the most unlikeliness of places, but it quickly turned into a conversation about the art of coaching and how important it is to see the skill within the drill and why asking questions of yourself and your athletes is the key to unlocking your coaching potential. 

Hear from one of the best in the business about how to develop your teams scrum and you don’t need to be a forwards coach. Dan Cron, current Matatū & Black Fern set piece coach takes Riki through how he prepares his forwards to put their heads into the dark places with really easy practical tips and drills you can do with your forwards pack regardless of how many numbers you have and with minimal equipment. Dan awesome shares why he loves coaching so much and will take you on his global rugby coaching journey and how he’s done a bit of a 360 from where he started out coaching to what he’s currently doing at the moment.