Leader Manager Coach Podcast

Many of us become frustrated in life because we are not where we believe we should be, yet we must remember that life is a journey and we should embrace the now! Join Rob as he discusses why embracing the now will help you find you as well as the importance of finding peace as a leader and why caring for others is a vital part of your role.  KEY TAKEAWAYS We often get so frustrated and angry, that is because we are often wanting something which we are not achieving. Yet, life goes on, it is a journey that is about embracing the now so that we can find the joy in the now, and use that to go forward. Sometimes, the only answer at times is solitude. Putting your pen down and finding the time to yourself will help your upcoming journey become clear. Try and be at peace as a leader, as you are the one setting an example. When you haven't got the victory, be at peace and understand that it is not all sunlight and rainbows. There is beauty in digging and preparing the soil for the next oppor

Join Rob as he shares more inspirational life lessons taken from the works of internationally renowned author and theologist, Henri Nouwen. Discover the importance of leaving your comfort zone behind, why everybody's journeys are individual and the importance of being a valuable member of your community. KEY TAKEAWAYS Although we are drawn to comforts and are driven to finding security, staying in your comfort zone is like living a slow death. If you are going to have a meaningful life, you have to get used to and embrace being uncomfortable.If you spend time away from somebody, that will tell you what they are in your life. If you miss them and think about them positively then they are positive in your life. If you don't miss them or wish to see them again, that may mean they are a drain on your energy.We have to learn to be open. We all want to achieve things and get to certain places, but we have to be open to change along the way. Generally in life, we plan the steps to achieving our goals, and then

Discover more inspirational teachings that you can apply to your leadership style and lifestyle, as spoken by Eknath Easwaran, a spiritual author and teacher. Rob discusses the importance of having a focus, your responsibilities as a trustee and how a great leader helps themselves and their team bring out their unique abilities. KEY TAKEAWAYS Remember to always have a focus within your team and with yourself. That focus should be to help everybody to become independent to find the peaceful place within themselves that helps them perform. This comes down to the thought process around culture and the thought process around the environment.If you can be the facilitator in your leadership capacity, as the one who creates a culture that brings people to an optimum mental state, then you have achieved and done an amazing thing.You are not responsible for your team members because everybody is responsible for themselves. However, you do have a responsibility as a leader because you are a trustee and there are t

Join Rob in another inspirational episode of Leader Manager Coach as he shares the works of Sebastian Junger and discusses how you can apply his teachings to your leadership style. Rob discusses how Junger discovered that people thrive when under hardship, how in ancient societies, leadership was simply a responsibility and why leadership should not only be a passageway to great riches. KEY TAKEAWAYS How do you become a man in a world that requires no courage? It seems that modern society is on a journey to make life easier and to ensure life is more comfortable, less stressful and less dangerous. However, people are massively unhappy and there are enormous amounts of mental health issues.Hardship is a blessing, people thrive on hardship. The modern quest of society is trying to perfect the art of making people unnecessary so that they do not have to fight for their survival. However, it was hardships that created the successful societies that Jugner refers to in his book.The leaders in ancient societies

Rob is back with this inspirational episode as he takes you around a few key principles of leadership which are worth sharing, and listening to. Discover how loneliness and leadership are intertwined, how responsibility is intrinsically linked to being a leader and why it takes courage to put your values first. KEY TAKEAWAYS Life can be lonely at times. Loneliness is not just applicable to the pandemic, there are many aspects of loneliness that are not something to be brushed under the carpet. Loneliness is a tragic thing that is not easily solvable. Leaders, whether they acknowledge it or not, probably feel loneliness more than others because by definition they go hand in hand. To be the best at something, you cannot get away from the fact that you are first a human being. Being a human being is to get to know yourself, there is nothing greater than being true to yourself. To be true to yourself you have to be aware and know what you are. Leadership is intrinsically linked to being r

Many qualities make a good leader, manager and coach and today, Rob discusses a few of these and how you can apply them to your leadership style. Discover the importance of encouraging your players to evolve, why we need to give ourselves a break and why being happy with yourself will allow you to be the best leader possible. KEY TAKEAWAYS We are allowed to change, we are allowed to evolve. You must allow your players, your athletes and your people to have the freedom to change. Be the leader that allows them to evolve.There is a huge discussion about what happens after sport and a huge drive to teach young people that they are a human being first, and a sports person second. Your self worth should not be reliant upon your ability on the pitch.We all need to give ourselves a break. Some people are good at this and then there are the others who are driven. They are the ones who are likely to burn out. We have to be the change we want to see as leaders and having a break is one of the most difficult things

Join Rob today as he shares the teaching of Henri Nouwen, a dutch writer and theologian. Today Rob dives into Nouwen's philosophical teachings and discusses the importance of making mistakes in life, why it is important to be a person who can offer a safe space for others and what it means to clear the space.KEY TAKEAWAYS One of the things that is necessary in life is to make mistakes. We have to pick ourselves up from our failures and repeat if we want to achieve the results we want. This also involves the forgiveness of ourselves because if we don't, we end up berating ourselves and having a poor self-image.One thing you can teach others is that there are times when you will feel great and successful, and there are going to be times when you don't. There is pain along the way, that is part of the human journey.To be a part of a culture is to be a part of a place where you feel safe. People need safe places, the world is harsh and not everybody has stable relationships. If you are the kind of person that can

The seventh instalment of the inspirational mini-series ‘Eknath Easwaran's Words To Live By'. Today Rob discusses the importance of listening, how you can enable your players by helping them overcome their challenges and how leadership is about facilitating other people's success.KEY TAKEAWAYS No matter what our position is in life, one of the most difficult things to do consistently is listening. When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. One of the key skills to being a great manager is to know how much to give when to give it and what to give.If you become a leader, manager or coach who imparts wisdom when it is appropriate and necessary, you will have a greater impact. If you just give irrelevant information all the time, people will not listen.As a leader, you need to know what is going on in your team members' lives, if they are in a good place, what challenges they are going through and how you can facilitate them best.The question we always have to ask ourselves is ‘how may I serv

One of the most important skills a leader, manager or coach can have is the ability to facilitate greatness in their players or mentors, join Rob today as he explains the tools needed for you to develop great people and players. Rob discusses the importance of starting afresh after a tough day, how to know when you need to step away from a situation and why it is fundamental to always do the right thing as this will serve you well in the long run. KEY TAKEAWAYS Always remember that even if you have faced difficulties in your training session, the next day is a brand new start. We have to start a ‘new' every day, that is one of the beautiful things about life. No matter how low we have dropped or how much we have failed, we can begin again tomorrow.With young players, you have to try and get them to trust themselves. One of the great dilemmas in sport is the role of the coach and deciding how much freedom to give them to help them develop. It is fundamental to realise that every player is an individ

Marcus Rashford took to social media to express his thoughts after his missed penalty during one of the biggest football events England has seen since 1966. Rob picks apart Rashfords passage to find the inspirational lessons which are valuable to all young players. He discusses how life is perplexing, why fighting reality is futile, and sister and brotherhoods' importance. KEY TAKEAWAYSLife is perplexing. It challenges us, it is a growth thing and it is not always plain sailing.Marcus looks at the team he is surrounded by, the brotherhood, team, culture, and relationships. He describes them as unbreakable, and they do not happen overnight.In a team sport, if one person succeeds so does everybody else, but if one person fails so does the rest of the team.As a young player, be honest and don't worry about being vulnerable. Take responsibility and do your best but you can never guarantee the outcome. Being honest is freeing and gives you peace of mind.Fighting reality is futile. Look beyond the result, have

Have you discovered your own truth? Are you chasing what it is you truly desire? Join Rob as he dives into the importance of knowing who you truly are. Rob discusses understanding your core values, the value of listening to the right people and why only you can walk your journey. KEY TAKEAWAYS What is at your core? This question asks us who we are, what we are about and what our real key values are. From that, everything will spring. We cannot have values that are aligned with getting as much as we can personally, for as little effort as possible.Who are you listening to? Are you listening to great mentors, people you trust and inspirational people? Or are you still bamboozled by the overwhelming chitchat of colleagues or from social media? Maybe we should filter out the information that we don't need so that we can be guided.Change is uncomfortable and involves a degree of suffering. It often involves loss and you have to prune some things away. We have to choose where we focus our energy, so that the t

Join Rob in this inspirational episode as he discusses the importance of recognising the struggles, obstacles and challenges on your journey and the importance of owning your own pain. Discover why your journey is unique to you, why great leaders do not seek glory and why what other people think about you, does not matter. KEY TAKEAWAYS Unless you are different from most people, you will have challenges in your life. You will have obstacles and you may feel anger, despondence and you may have felt like you would like to give up. This is all part of our own unique journey.You want to be a leader who facilitates great people. The greatest leaders are those who rise and help people become great and who do not even realise that they are being led. Great leaders do not want glory or limelight, they are just doing their job.Do not deny your reality. We cannot deal with stuff that we hide away, because it is our own struggle, we have to go within to find the answer.Everybody is called from within, it is just th

Join Rob today as he discusses the six leadership necessities taken from the inspirational workings of Sebastian Junger, a #1 New York Times best selling author. Rob discusses the ideal community size, why it is important to welcome adversity and why we need to be a part of a community in order to live a successful life.  KEY TAKEAWAYS The greatest happiness comes from groups of people who live and work in numbers of 30-50. If you are looking to create something, you can create a community within your niche of this amount of people. Welcome adversity. Adversity creates team spirit, unselfish and cooperative behaviour. People pull together to find a fortitude and put the group ahead of their own individual needs. That is one of the key things about a successful community. It is morally courageous to stand up, speak your truth and look people in the eye and risk it all. It is not easy to do but it is the right thing. You/We need a community. You cannot live successfully alone eithe

The Euros are an exciting time for England, and with the country's eyes firmly on England Manager Gareth Southgate, Rob covers 12 of Gareth's managing gems which you can apply to your own team. Rob discusses the importance of details, why patience is a virtue and how to ensure you always leave things in a better place than what you found them. KEY TAKEAWAYS People often say the devil is in the details. There are many times when people will offer a simple solution to a seemingly difficult problem, but think of how much detail goes into fulfilling your daily activities. If you are not detail focused, you will not maximise your time and things will not go as efficiently as you wish.One of life's greatest lessons is to teach us patience. How many times have you set a goal and been frustrated that you did not achieve it when you wanted to. We do not know what it will involve to get us from A to B, we just know that that is where we want to go. We then have to traverse the path to get there, and often that pat

Eknarth Easwaran was one of the world's greatest spiritual teachers and authors who educated people on the best way to live their lives freely. In today's podcast, Rob explains Eknarth's teaching and how you can apply these spiritual teachings to your coaching, leadership and mentoring business. Discover how to accept challenges that come your way, how each person is on their own individual journey and how to find the middle ground that suits you. KEY TAKEAWAYSIf you are a leader, manager or a coach somewhere along the line you will have made a conscious or unconscious decision to be in that position. The best thing you can do is lean into the situation and remember that you are on that path. The only thing challenging you now, is your journey ahead of you and by avoiding it, you will only open yourself to having to efface the obstacle later on. It is always about you and you have the power to respond exactly how you want.Sometimes it is a great thing to understand that not everyday is going to be a grea

These days feeling overwhelmed with life is an all too common feeling and something many people have experienced at one point in their lives. Join Rob today as he talks through the importance of coaches understanding how to manage overwhelm.. Discover how to prioritise your goals, the importance of taking regular breaks and why finding the right balance between ‘eat, move, sleep' is fundamental to your optimum health. KEY TAKEAWAYSAs coaches you need to be conscious about young people becoming overwhelmed. It is so easy these days to become overwhelmed as life never seems to be ‘off', everything is always ‘on'. A digital shutdown is recommended to help combat that. A few hours before you go to sleep at night, set an alarm to turn your phone, computer and television off and sit and do something else that you enjoy such as reading or spending time with your loved ones. To help you manage your overwhelm, you need to know what your priority goal is and then you need to understand what

Have you ever experienced feelings of self-doubt, fear and feel as though you are not good enough?  Then you may have been suffering from imposter syndrome, join Rob as he discusses his own experiences of imposter syndrome and you can identify it in yourself. Discover how feelings of self-doubt can have a huge impact on your life goals, why you should accept your feelings in order to overcome them and how to support your students and mentees going through it.  KEY TAKEAWAYS  Imposter syndrome is the feeling that you are not good enough, feeling fearful of the future and doubting your capabilities. These feelings can have a significant impact on your decisions to not carry out your personal goals and desires.  The transfer of belief, faith and knowing that you are successful in one field, can often spill over and reinforce your character to give you that belief that you can go on to be successful in other things. The principles of success are enormously transferable. &nb

Discover today the lessons learned from the inspirational Henri Nouwen and how these can be applied to both your personal life, and your coaching business. Join Rob as he discusses the importance of being your true authentic self, how building a community within your team can lead you on the path to success and why you should always make time to protect your inner sanctuary. KEY TAKEAWAYS One fundamental lesson that runs through everything is that if you really want to achieve a level of success and happiness then, you have to be authentic to yourself. When all the false selves that we have and all the identities we possess are no longer important or relevant, how are you with your real self? It is ultimately freeing to come to the state where you really know and accept yourself. Things great in value and things that are built to last are focused on community and cooperation. As a leader, manager or coach it is your job to create a community and facilitate that group of people into a functional enti

In today's episode, Rob celebrates you, the ordinary man or woman and takes you through the small, day to day victories that need celebrating more often. Rob discusses how social media often causes people to compare their lives with celebrities online, how we never truly understand how much work goes into the production of football behind the scenes and why as leaders, managers and coaches, you should celebrate yourself and your players daily. KEY TAKEAWAYS There are a few downsides to social media such as the comparative nature of it. You may have fallen victim to comparing yourself to others and what they chose to share online. You may be wondering if you are meeting the same criteria as them and if you are as successful as them? It becomes easy to have a vision of the world whereby you believe that you need to attain the highest possible status that you can. There is football played all around the world at different levels and in different environments. Some people play for fun and other people p

Join Rob today as he conveys the motivational words to live by as written by Eknarth Easwaran. Rob discusses the importance of remembering that you are on your own individual journey, to always ensure you regularly renew your energy and to listen to those who have walked the path before you. KEY TAKEAWAYSAlways remember that what you perceive is just an image in your mind and you're limiting your brain's potential to take in that information. The image you see of what you are capable of achieving, is just your own image. In coaching terms, you always need to ask the question ‘is there more to this story?' ‘what else could have happened as an additional opposing factor that would change my opinion?' Always remember that it is your journey. We are all individuals and we have many similarities, but we have so many differences. Yes we are all human beings and we are all physiologically similar, but the little subtle differences which science does not understand makes us all different. The mo