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Why develop positive learning environments in rugby?

People and players

•What do they need to survive and develop?

•Stability

•Instability

•Connection to targets

•Significance to targets and goals

•What happens if we cannot provide these necessities?

•Lack of motivation

•Disruptive learning environment

•MIA

•Unattainable targets through missed opportunities

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Season and learning planning

• Forward thinking

– Golden circle

– How can we apply to rugby?

– Clive Woodward

• Away from thinking

– Negative rugby and learning scenarios

• Preseason ideas

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Understanding our players

•DISC personalities

•What motivates different players?

•What do they need?

•VAK learning and understanding

•Visual

•Auditory

•Kinaesthetic

•“Car salesman” example

•Positive language

•Lose DON’T, BUT and CAN’T

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Practice for learning

•Focus on what you want to achieve

•Work towards collaborative goals and targets

•Be specific in targets yet varied in approach

•Design game based scenarios for competitive, decision making situations

•Let players design games & lead towards goals

•Situational Leadership Theroy•Stage 1: Telling

•Stage 2: Selling

•Diffusion of innovation

•Stage 3: Participating

•Stage 4: Delegating

Review and Feedback

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• 3 steps for positive feedback

– Re-tell success or positive result to player

– What did the player contribute to success

– How can we use this to improve another area of our game?

• Don’t be distracted or actively

Negative or passively positive

• Power of questions