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Dan chats to Kris Stafford, Rugby Development Officer at Leeds Beckett, MSc in Sports Coaching, U.K Coaching award winner, and host of the @bigbreakdownhq podcast.

In the podcast, they discuss:

• Making sure the players are valued and integrated into the coaching process
• How to genuinely engage with the players outside their sport
• How to have entire team conversations
• What a positive and supportive learning environment looks like
• Ways to design a practice to make purposeful
• Using the STEP model to develop practices
• What is meant by the MOTs of the ABCs
• Where to use a self-directed learning approach, where players spend time exploring and practicing key skills both with and without coach guidance
• Where players need guidance and where they can take control
• Using all the coaches in the session to run an effective game
• How to make player huddles more impactful

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