Our great coach on this episode is Shane Jurgensen.

Shane is a former cricketer who played for Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania and Horsham, Sussex in the UK. He started coaching while still an athlete in his early 20s, eventually becoming the bowling coach for New Zealand in 2008. From there, he had successful roles in high-performance coaching with New Zealand cricket and led the national teams of Bangladesh, Scotland, and Fiji. He then had a second stint with New Zealand as the Bowling coach and Head Coach and was part of the team that won the inaugural World Test Championship in 2019. Then in 2023, he led the Wellington Firebirds to the Plunket shield in New Zealand.

Key Questions:

· What routines do you use to open team meetings? How they can be used to deepen seflessness within the group?

· What is the level of dispersed leadership across your team?

· How are your development plans spread across improving base capabilities versus growing new ones?

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