Ric Shuttleworth is a unique individual with an unparalleled wealth of knowledge and insight into skill acquisition and coaching.

While Ric has a strong academic background and has worked within the sports science domain for a good part of his career, he is very much a practitioner and has spent most of his life on the sidelines working directly with athletes and coaches.

Ric is currently working with elite coaches across a range of sports as a coach developer and he shares a series of high quality insights and 'knowledge bombs' that will really challenge the coaching and talent community to re-imagine the way that they develop the capabilities of the athletes they guide.

In this episode we discuss...

- How to avoid falling into the pitfall of 'comparative coaching'
- Why trying to develop a 'shared mental model' can destroy creativity
- Using a 'principles based' coaching approach
- How coaches should be part of the learning system not in control of it
- Why following a plan is the worst thing you can do
- Eddie Jones secret - the "cut - bleed & bandage' approach
- Using an 'explore - discover - adapt' approach to player and coach learning
- How to move away from overly structured coaching towards a more reactive model that Ric describes as an 'interactive action' approach
- How you could be part of a learning and development community that is being run by Ric and Mark Upton.

I highly recommend having a notepad handy when you listen to this or at the very least listening to it more than once.

Enjoy

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