For this episode we go inside Southampton's innovative new Learning Lab with two of its leadership team - Head of Technical Development Iain Brunnschweiler and Dr Andrew Wilson, a Reader in Psychology at Leeds Beckett University.

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01:15: IAIN BRUNNSCHWEILER - background on his playing and career journey. Youth player at Southampton/ cricket career/ UK Coaching/ back to Saints.

09:23: Learning from top performing organisations in sport, business and the military. Floyd Woodrow and the SAS.

19:10: Technical Development department - what it is, what it does and what his role entails.

26:32: Learning Lab - how it came about, what it does, PhD projects

37:02: Importance of developing relationships; why we over-index on technical skills and under-index on human skills

44:15: DR ANDREW WILSON - career journey

46:15: What is ecological learning? Origins.

1:03:52: Why ecological learning 'radically alters the role of the coach'

1:15:55: Scanning. PhD projects in the Learning Lab

1:27:34: Is the Learning Lab unique in football?