For this episode we go inside Southampton's innovative new Learning Lab with two of its leadership team - Head of Technical Development Iain Brunnschweiler and Dr Andrew Wilson, a Reader in Psychology at Leeds Beckett University.
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=> SHOW NOTES:
01:15: IAIN BRUNNSCHWEILER - background on his playing and career journey. Youth player at Southampton/ cricket career/ UK Coaching/ back to Saints.
09:23: Learning from top performing organisations in sport, business and the military. Floyd Woodrow and the SAS.
19:10: Technical Development department - what it is, what it does and what his role entails.
26:32: Learning Lab - how it came about, what it does, PhD projects
37:02: Importance of developing relationships; why we over-index on technical skills and under-index on human skills
44:15: DR ANDREW WILSON - career journey
46:15: What is ecological learning? Origins.
1:03:52: Why ecological learning 'radically alters the role of the coach'
1:15:55: Scanning. PhD projects in the Learning Lab
1:27:34: Is the Learning Lab unique in football?
