Coaching Culture with Ben Herring
By Ben Herring
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Coaching Culture with Ben Herring is your weekly deep-dive into the often-overlooked “softer skills” of coaching—cultural innovation, communication, empathy, leadership, dealing with stress, and motivation. Each episode features candid conversations with the world’s top international rugby coaches, who share the personal stories and intangible insights behind their winning cultures, and too their biggest failures and learnings from them. This is where X’s and O’s meet heart and soul, empowering coaches at every level to foster authentic connections, inspire their teams, and elevate their own coaching craft. If you believe that the real gold in rugby lies beyond the scoreboard, Coaching Culture is the podcast for you.
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Campese Ma’afu’s Incredible Road Back to Professional Coaching
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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Merchiston Castle School | Inside One of Scotland’s Great Rugby Schools
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Sep 06, 2026 |
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They Said It Couldn’t Be Done, So He Built the Asia Pacific Lions
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Sep 02, 2026 |
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The New Rugby Team That Could Change Asian Rugby | Jamie Henry
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Sep 01, 2026 |
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The Culture Behind 54 All Blacks | Auckland Grammar School
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Aug 29, 2026 |
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Paarl Boys High School | Inside the Program with Sean Eramus
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Aug 23, 2026 |
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How Ryan Martin led Northland’s Historic Ranfurly Shield Win
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Aug 22, 2026 |
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Why Winning Teams Still Have Culture Problems | Ross Neal
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Aug 19, 2026 |
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Newington College GPS Champions | Inside the Program
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Aug 16, 2026 |
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Why So Many Good Coaches Are Struggling | The Invisible load
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Aug 11, 2026 |
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Ex-Wallaby Reveals How Culture Is Really Made | Ben Darwin
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Aug 09, 2026 |
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Ex-All Blacks Analyst Reveals the Danger of Statistics | Al Rodgers
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Aug 02, 2026 |
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Why Good Coaches Don't Always Pick the Good Players
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Jul 29, 2026 |
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Pressure Made Me Forget Who I Was | Joey Mongalo
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Jul 26, 2026 |
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How to Break Through as a Coach (Without a Playing Career)
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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How a maths teacher became a world class coach | Noel McNamara
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Jul 19, 2026 |
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What 23 Years at Leicester Taught Me About Leadership | Geordan Murphy
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Jul 12, 2026 |
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THE NEW MASCULINITY OF COACHING Craig White
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Jul 05, 2026 |
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How the Hurricanes Value Culture. Tom Kindley
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Jun 28, 2026 |
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The Power of In-Person Conversations
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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The Real Job of a Coach Isn't What You Think...John Dams
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Jun 21, 2026 |
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The Hardest Transition Of My Life Nemani Nandolo
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Jun 14, 2026 |
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Coaching Your Own Kid
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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Dark Moments Build Great Players. Joe Rokocoko
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Jun 07, 2026 |
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The Power Of Little Hooks
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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Alex Laybourne: Swedens rise to Top 30 on a shoestring
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May 31, 2026 |
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How to Make and Break Confidence
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May 27, 2026 |
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Gary Gold: What Coaches Get Wrong With Culture.
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May 23, 2026 |
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What If Your Best Coaching Is Silence
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May 20, 2026 |
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Filo Tiatia: Edge And Empathy In Coaching
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May 16, 2026 |
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How Community Rugby Sustains Elite Performance, and How You can See it
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May 13, 2026 |
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David Nucifora: INSIDE IRELAND’S RISE
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May 10, 2026 |
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The Greatest Poem For Coaches to have in their Pocket
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May 06, 2026 |
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Scott Johnson: Why most team values are meaningless… and what actually builds culture.
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May 03, 2026 |
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How Physical Micro-Rituals Stop Overthinking In Sport
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Culture Is a Delusion: Jed Thian’s Brutal Truth About Rugby
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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Kieran Read: What I recommend you do, if you were All Blacks captain.
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Joe Launchbury on Leadership, Culture & Accountability in Rugby
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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What If Losing Is Where Culture Begins
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Mark Jones on Leadership : Why Coaches Fail When Players Don’t Buy In.
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Apr 12, 2026 |
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Tony Shaw on Rugby Toughness & Culture: “If You Want Comfort, You’re in the Wrong Game”
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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Felipe Contepomi: When Your Greatest Strength Becomes Your Biggest Flaw
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Apr 05, 2026 |
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The Right Music Turns A Group Into A Team
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Ben John: Building Community And Skill In Online Rugby
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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When Kids Tackle Their Dads They Learn Faster
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Greg Cooper: Character will beat talent.
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Mar 22, 2026 |
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How Rugby Coach Sam Vesty Prepares A Team For A Final
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Gavin Hickie: What Rugby can learn from Navy Culture
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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Matt O'Connor: The Harsh Truths of Coaching Winning Teams
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Mar 08, 2026 |
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Reflections: Farewell To A Quiet Architect Of Rugby
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Stu Woodhouse: Leading a school rugby program and an International side
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Mar 01, 2026 |
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Stu Edwards: Looking after Coaches Mental Well Being
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Craig Newby: Losing Teaches What Winning Hides
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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Reflections: Work Rate Beats Game IQ More Than Coaches Admit.
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Gordon Tietjens: I Coach Intensity Before Tactics
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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Reflections: How to deal with Pressure
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Joey Mongalo: How to Deal with the Pressures of Coaching
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Feb 08, 2026 |
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Reflections: How First and Last Moments Shape Coaching
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Andre Pretorius: Understand And Assist
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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Reflection: Learning from a master coach
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Nick Evans: Removing the Burden of Outcome
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Reflections: Bens Coaching Playbook
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Ben Darwin: Why coaches get sacked.
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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Reflections: Twenty Years, Five Lessons In Love And Coaching
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Zane Hilton: I Was A Bad Player, So I Coached Instead
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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Reflections: Bens Book Review
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Andrew Hore: Hard Conversations Keep Standards High
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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Reflections: Privilege, Context, And The Real Measure Of Coaching
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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Warren Kennaugh: Your Team Is Not A Democracy, And That’s Okay
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Dec 28, 2025 |
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Yes, We Ran A Christmas Beep Test And Loved It
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Chris Lendrum: Leading the leaders, running the NZRU
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Dec 21, 2025 |
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Reflections: Small Players Tackle, Big Players Run
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Reflections: From D Team to the Working with the Worlds Best
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Augustine Pulu: How Coaches Can Create Monsters!
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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Mike Catt: No Dumb Questions. Building Brave Team Cultures
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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The Tony Brown Effect. How he has got the Springboks to a new level.
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Phil Dowson: How A Director Of Rugby Shapes Behavior, Balance, And Belief
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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A reflective look at the philosophies of Eddie Jones.
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Nathan Grey: Toughness is a talent. Coaching the Red/Blue Head Mindset.
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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You Don’t Need More Time; You Need Simpler, Sharper Sessions That Fit Your Team’s Identity
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Sean Graham: Youth Rugby Coaching Masterclass. A Playbook for School Rugby Success
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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Coaching Under Pressure: Owning Your Dark Traits
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Mick Byrne : From All Blacks to Fiji. How Self Awareness Creates Culture that Lasts.
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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Why Treating Parenting Like Coaching Creates Stronger Families And Teams
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Sam Wykes: Building Team Culture Through People, Not Facilities. A Sunwolves Casestudy.
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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Define Culture Or Drift: Why Writing It Down Raises The Bar
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Ben Darwin: You Can't Out Coach the Numbers. Heres the Data to Prove it.
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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How to reduce the anxiety your players feel
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Glen Jackson: Talent doesn't always win: Building culture in the Fijian Drua.
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Ken Grover: The World Is Your Classroom: How Rugby Tours Build Character.
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Eddie Jones on culture, risk, and advice to all coaches.
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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How to Grow Leadership in Players who Don't Talk
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Jimmy Gopperth: What the Best Do Differently. Coaching Insights from the Worlds Most Capped Player.
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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Five Ways Great Coaches Anchor Teams in Tough Times
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Alando Soakai: Know your product, 'The game will take care of itself'
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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The Gold You Didn’t Know You Were Mining
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Dan McKellar on Discipline, Culture & The Dressing Shed
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Culture outlives coaches when you get these four elements right
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Pat Lam on Culture: Why Love Defines High-Performing Teams
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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Jim McKay: The Stresses and Strains of Professional coaching. How that Journey Shapes you.
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Ryan Schultz: The Path From Digging Holes to Elite Rugby Coaching
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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REFLECTIONS: Off field equals on field
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Greg Peters: The Shift Every Coach and Leader Must Make
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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Wal Herring: Feed Your Potential: Concussion, Womans high performance and Personalized Nutrition
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Mike Friday: Rugby Is What You Do, Not Who You Are
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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REFLECTIONS: The Power of Team Cohesion
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Chris Boyd: Leadership Trumps Management
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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REFLECTIONS Interpersonal Sensitivity (The Secret Weapon of Elite Coaches)
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Joey Mongalo: Learn from Everyone, Everywhere: The World as Your Leadership Library
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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REFLECTIONS Taming Your Coach's Ego
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Seilala Mapusua: Understanding Polynesian Players.
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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James Doleman: How Referees Shape Rugby's Culture Beyond the Rules
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Aaron Smith: Great coaches admit mistakes and know when to stop coaching
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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REFLECTIONS Public vs. Private
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Mike Cron: Rugby's Wisest Coach Shares His Lifetime of Wisdom
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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REFLECTIONS: Why words matter!
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Dan Bowden: How to Coach Your Players Without Putting Them to Sleep
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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Ryan Martin: How to win a MLR Chamionship (Three times in a row!)
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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James Marshall: The Power of Collaborative Coaching
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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REFLECTIONS: Defining Culture
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Simon Cron: Scars Make You Stronger.
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Kendrick Lynn: Breaking Down Argentina's Rugby DNA
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Ben Darwin: The Science of Team Cohesion
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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Tony Brown: Rugby Man first, Coach Second.
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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Phil Davies: Inside the Mind of World Rugby’s Director of Rugby
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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Geoff Parling: High Challenge and High Support cultures
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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Sam Vesty: Inside Finals Week. Joy, Simplicity & Team Culture
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May 25, 2025 |
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Paul Galland: The Crusaders Pipeline; Shaping More than Rugby Players
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May 18, 2025 |
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John Mitchell: How Adversity Reshapes Coaching Philosophy
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May 11, 2025 |
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Matt Cockbain: The Head Coach Coaches the Head.
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May 04, 2025 |
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Mike Ruddock: Culture, Causes, and the 2005 Welsh Legacy
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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Scott Lawrence: Coaching Culture and Vision in USA Rugby
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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Wayne Smith: Great teams are built on meaning.
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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Ryan Martin: Burn the lesson plan. How to break through in professional coaching.
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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Richard Cockerill: Rugby's Straightshooter. You can't pretend to be a good version of someone else.
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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Conrad Smith: Coachability Unleashed, The Culture-Driven Approach to Rugby.
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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Frans Ludeke: The Soft Skills of Really Caring and Loving People
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Glenn Delaney: The 80-20 Rule of Authentic Leadership
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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James O’Connor Unfiltered: A Player’s Perspective on What Makes—or Breaks—a Good Coach and Culture
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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Chris Webb: Rugby Management and Leadership Insights
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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Paul Tito: Keeping things simple, and the art of confrontations.
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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Johan Ackermann: Faith-Driven Leadership and Team Unity
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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Kieran Crowley: Balancing Passion and Pressure in Rugby Coaching
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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Steve Hansen | The All Blacks Coach Who Built the Greatest Culture in Sport
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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Eddie Jones: Culture shocks. Environmental learnings from England, Australia and Japan.
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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Jan 06, 2025 |