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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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