Rob shares the great Sir Bobby Robson’s 11 commandments of football in this episode of Leader Manager, Coach and discusses how these can be applied to all walks of life, not just football. Rob shares the importance of having self-control, why you should always react positively to criticism and the value in understanding what makes people tick.    KEY TAKEAWAYS  These eleven principles were written by Sir Bobby himself, in his handwriting and read by his wife, Lady Elsie. They’re from one of the most respected, professional managers that England has produced and yet they apply to any situation.  You have to be in control of yourself before you can control anybody else. Learn to control and be in charge of yourself before you try to take charge of others.  If you master the art of listening by keeping your mouth closed and your ears open and observing the situation, then that will take you a long way.  Be self-disciplined so that you can command discipline from others. If you are disorganised and lacklustre it may be difficult to request the required amount of input, timekeeping and effort from others who will be a part of your team.  Understand individuals and know what makes them tick. We are all individuals and we all want to be understood. Sometimes we think we need something from somebody when all we want and need is to be understood. If you want to be a great leader, manager or coach, understanding people will take you miles and miles.  React positively to criticism. Doing so decreases stress. You are going to be criticised, berated and knocked down, you cannot stop the way people talk about you but you can control how you respond, that is your power.    BEST MOMENTS  “Be a winner and be single-minded on an outcome.” “Who wants to be involved with somebody dishonest?” “The most successful ones are those that take the time to get to know their fellow coaches, their fellow professionals.” “People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.”   ABOUT THE HOST Rob Ryles is a UEFA licensed coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, the USA, and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non-League and grassroots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience.  Rob Ryles prides himself on having a forward-thinking and progressive approach to the game built through his own experience as well as lessons learned from several highly successful managers and coaches. The Leader Manager Coach Podcast is where we take a deep dive examining knowledge, philosophies, wisdom and insight to help you lead, manage and coach in football, sport and life.    CONTACT METHOD https://www.robryles.co.uk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=uk Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/robryles See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Sir Bobby’s 11

By being the guide and not the hero you will become a leader. Rob dives into Donald Miller’s book - Building a storybrand to analyse the seven aspects of your life’s story and how they apply to business, brand and marketing. Discover what it takes to guide your customer on their journey and how you can find success applying the seven principles of life to your own story.   KEY TAKEAWAYS   The whole of life is a story broken into seven aspects. A character with a problem and a guide to help them. There’s a plan to follow, a call to action and assistance from others with the goal of ending in success.   The principles of life can be applied to business, brand and marketing. By putting yourself out there to grow you become the hero of your story. But for you to become a leader you need to make your customer the hero of the story.   We’re all wired to focus on what we have to achieve but we have to learn empathy, compassion and caring in order to be successful in life. Be the guide, not the hero.   It’s only when people become successful do people want to learn their story. As a leader, take on the role of guide, ascertain what your customer or athlete wants to achieve and guide them on their journey.     BEST MOMENTS “We all have our own brand” “Every single second we are living the hero’s journey.” “The seven principles of a story can be seen in every endeavour of life.” “Ego is the funniest disease in the world, it makes everyone sick apart from those that have it”     VALUABLE RESOURCES Leader Manager Coach Podcast Building a storybrand - Donald Miller ABOUT THE HOST Rob Ryles is a UEFA A licensed coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, USA, and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non-League and grassroots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience. Rob Ryles prides himself on having a forward thinking and progressive approach to the game built through his own experience as well as lessons learned from a number of highly successful managers and coaches. The Leader Manager Coach Podcast is where we take a deep dive examining knowledge, philosophies, wisdom and insight to help you lead, manage and coach in football, sport and life.   CONTACT METHOD https://www.robryles.co.uk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=uk   Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/robryles See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Be The Guide Not The Hero

Rob is joined by a football legend, once deemed the ‘hardest man in football’, Denis Smith to talk about his long-standing football career. Together, they discuss how hard work pays off in professional sport, how to play to your strengths and how community plays an important part in football.   KEY TAKEAWAYS In life and professional sport, you have got to prioritize your career aspirations. You can’t always have what you want in life but you have got to try and achieve what you want in life. It is fine to say you want to do something, but are you prepared to make the sacrifices? If you are wanting to play a professional sport for a living, you have got to get all the details perfect as well as being prepared to work hard at your sport as it has become a job for you rather than just a hobby. The blessing of having a life as a player in football means that you have to know what you’re good at to do a good job for your team and manager. You need to know your strengths and weaknesses and make the best of the skills that you have. Don’t try to be somebody you’re not. You are working alongside the community when you’re working within a football team. You cannot close your mind to anybody with views. You want people to share their views with you so that you can take it all in and decide what is right or not. You must listen to people. BEST MOMENTS “At nine or ten you made life-changing decisions.” “I believed in myself and I continued to believe in myself.” “Whenever I’ve been a manager I have always been part of the community.”   ABOUT THE GUEST Denis Smith is of a rare breed. Someone who was virtually a one-club legend for his home town club Stoke City playing over 400 games in a career that earned him the label as ‘The hardest man in football’. He later went on to become a member of another illustrious club. That of the 1000 club for managers who have managed over one thousand first-class games, joining the likes of Sir Alex Ferguson. He is still currently active in the game with amongst other things serving his local community and club being a well-loved media personality. ABOUT THE HOST Rob Ryles is a UEFA licensed coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, the USA, and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non-League and grassroots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience.   Rob Ryles prides himself on having a forward-thinking and progressive approach to the game built through his own experience as well as lessons learned from several highly successful managers and coaches.   The Leader Manager Coach Podcast is where we take a deep dive examining knowledge, philosophies, wisdom and insight to help you lead, manage and coach in football, sport and life.   CONTACT METHOD https://www.robryles.co.uk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=uk           Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/robryles See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Denis Smith On Playing

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 opportunity.  Caring is a necessary part of the leadership that doesn't get talked about. If you are with a group of people for any amount of time, there will be a need to care at some point.  Sometimes, it is just about being there, with that person. They may not need an answer, they may not need advice, they just need someone and their time. The ability to give time is important when being a leader.  It seems to be that the most important thing to many people is about having the greatest number of likes or the greatest number of followers on social media. There is no point in having all of those things if you are a fragile mess. Self-esteem is the foundation that will lead you to your real success.  Doing the right thing, and having the right character will give you more popularity than you ever considered necessary. Once you have self-esteem you won’t need validation from others. You will just have the only relationship that you need, and that is with the one with yourself.    BEST MOMENTS  “Solitude is the only answer.” “Try and be at peace as a leader.” “It’s about just being present.” “Self-esteem is the foundation that will lead you to your real success.”  VALUABLE RESOURCES Leader Manager Coach Podcast The Stoic Art of Living: Inner Resilience and Outer Results - Tom Morris     ABOUT THE HOST Rob Ryles is a UEFA licensed coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, the USA, and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non-League and grassroots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience. Rob Ryles prides himself on having a forward-thinking and progressive approach to the game built through his own experience as well as lessons learned from several highly successful managers and coaches. The Leader Manager Coach Podcast is where we take a deep dive examining knowledge, philosophies, wisdom and insight to help you lead, manage and coach in football, sport and life.   CONTACT METHOD https://www.robryles.co.uk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=uk Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/robryles See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Care Not Cure

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 the universe steps in and leads us to where we want to be, or somewhere different, that is teaching us a lesson. Everyone is on their journey and knowing this is extremely valuable. This gives you peace of mind and enables you to hold on to something you believe because there is an emotion deep inside you that tells you that this is the correct way, when others may be saying otherwise. No man is an island. No man gets there by themselves. Be a part of a community, create a community and be a valuable part of any community and contribute positively towards it. Make every day count as much as you can. You may not think it is positive with a great outcome but if you do your best, give it all you got then you can do no more. If that occurs, the net result of those days added together will be amazing. We often underestimate what we can do in the long term and overestimate what we can do in the short term. Don’t dismiss all those tiny little things that you do.   BEST MOMENTS “I believe that aiming to be comfortable is a slow death.” “We often need to clear the path.” “Everyone including you is on their journey. That is such a valuable thing to understand.” “Be a net positive, not a net negative, be a person that people want to be around.” ABOUT THE HOST Rob Ryles is a UEFA licensed coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, the USA, and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non-League and grassroots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience.   Rob Ryles prides himself on having a forward-thinking and progressive approach to the game built through his own experience as well as lessons learned from several highly successful managers and coaches.   The Leader Manager Coach Podcast is where we take a deep dive examining knowledge, philosophies, wisdom and insight to help you lead, manage and coach in football, sport and life.   CONTACT METHOD https://www.robryles.co.uk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=uk       Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/robryles See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Community, Vulnerability and Cumulative Growth

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 things expected of you. Always remember that when you feel tired, people are waiting for words of encouragement and inspiration. As a coach remember you have to balance strength and support. At times you have to say no and stand by your vision. Other times, you may have to support people through a certain tough period to achieve a result. There will be words that you speak, things that you talk about and things that you believe in that you will be tested on, to see if you still stand by them. Are you fundamentally at your core, the character that you portray? It may seem that this test is beneficial for everybody else, but that test is only for you and it is part of the process. You are unique. You have unique talents and abilities, there are things that you are great at and things that you excel at and so does everybody around you. Part of the skill of being a great leader is helping yourself and helping others to bring those qualities out. BEST MOMENTS “That's an environment that you can do something from.” “Words are powerful. What we say impacts our minds, impacts others and can have the most devastating effects and the most phenomenal effects.” “We might have felt like we had achieved something but actually, long term you had probably messed things up.” “ Part of the skill of being a great leader is helping yourself and helping others to bring those qualities.”  VALUABLE RESOURCES Leader Manager Coach Podcast The Stoic Art of Living: Inner Resilience and Outer Results - Tom Morris     ABOUT THE HOST Rob Ryles is a UEFA licensed coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, the USA, and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non-League and grassroots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience.   Rob Ryles prides himself on having a forward-thinking and progressive approach to the game built through his own experience as well as lessons learned from several highly successful managers and coaches.   The Leader Manager Coach Podcast is where we take a deep dive examining knowledge, philosophies, wisdom and insight to help you lead, manage and coach in football, sport and life.   CONTACT METHOD https://www.robryles.co.uk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=uk     Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/robryles See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Eknath Easwaran's Words To Live By Episode (Part 8 of 12)

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 all had the same amount of goods, food and the same benefits as everyone else. Being a leader was a responsibility and the rewards of being a leader were being of service to their communities. These days, leadership is more often than not rewarded for great benefits, if there is anything that eats away at society it is when they see the unfairness. People have this sense of justice within them, it is a human thing. We all know what is just. We all know what feels right. If somebody is taking more than they deserve, it makes people sick inside and fragments society. The vision has to be there that if you are going to create something with longevity and with a culture that lasts, you have to get everybody on board. The whole group of the club has to be welcomed and has to understand what their contribution means. Only then, will you get people having a cause. Have leadership as a responsibility and a service, not as a passageway to great riches and to be in a better social position. Let’s reward the pro-social behaviours that promote the group. Let's be brutal with our consequences for the betrayal of those who are trying to destroy the culture of the club.   BEST MOMENTS “Why is there no belonging anymore?” “We have decreased the role of community and we have replaced it with an elevated authority.” “People have this sense of justice within them, it is a human thing. We all know what is just. We all know what feels right.” “Often these things start with ourselves.” “Let’s be brutal with our consequences for betrayal.” ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sebastian Junger is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ‘War, The Perfect Storm’, ‘Fire’ and ‘A Death In Belmont’.Sebastian and Tim Hetherington directed the film ‘Restrepeo’ which was nominated for an Academy Award. The film went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Sebastian is a contributing editor of Vanity Fair and has been awarded a National Magazine Award along with a SAIS Novartis Prize for journalism. Junger currently lives in New York City. ABOUT THE HOST Rob Ryles is a UEFA licensed coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, the USA, and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non-League and grassroots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience.   Rob Ryles prides himself on having a forward-thinking and progressive approach to the game built through his own experience as well as lessons learned from several highly successful managers and coaches.   The Leader Manager Coach Podcast is where we take a deep dive examining knowledge, philosophies, wisdom and insight to help you lead, manage and coach in football, sport and life.    CONTACT METHOD https://www.robryles.co.uk/  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA  https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=uk        Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/robryles See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sebastian Junger War Society And Leadership

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 responsible, what responsibilities do you have in your line of leadership? Questions you often need to ask yourself are ‘what are my responsibilities?’ and ‘Am I meeting these regularly?’. In positions of leadership, you have a responsibility to do certain things and to be certain ways.  What are the values that are front and centre in your life? Only you can answer that question.  It takes courage to put your values first. However, in doing so it will mean that you live your life authentically in doing what you believe in.  The problem with human beings today is that we don’t think.    BEST MOMENTS  “The question is, how do you feel internally?” “Get to know yourself.” “Above all else, to thines own self be true.” “To whom much is given, much is expected.” “What are the values that are front and centre in your life?”   VALUABLE RESOURCES Leader Manager Coach Podcast The Stoic Art of Living: Inner Resilience and Outer Results - Tom Morris     ABOUT THE HOST Rob Ryles is a UEFA licensed coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, the USA, and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non-League and grassroots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience.   Rob Ryles prides himself on having a forward-thinking and progressive approach to the game built through his own experience as well as lessons learned from several highly successful managers and coaches.   The Leader Manager Coach Podcast is where we take a deep dive examining knowledge, philosophies, wisdom and insight to help you lead, manage and coach in football, sport and life.    CONTACT METHOD https://www.robryles.co.uk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=uk   Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/robryles See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What Is Front And Centre For You

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 to do. By being you, you will be the best leader you can be. You will be more attractive to the right type of people. It is about being able to take that happiness and recognise it in other people. As a leader, if you have put people in the zone of being happy with themselves, they will never want to leave you. They will always want to be around you and consider you to be one of the greatest leaders that have ever been.   BEST MOMENTS “My story can be one of two stories depending on what kind of mood I am in.” “Be careful and live in the moment.” “We all need to give ourselves a break.”  VALUABLE RESOURCES Leader Manager Coach Podcast The Stoic Art of Living: Inner Resilience and Outer Results - Tom Morris  ABOUT THE HOST Rob Ryles is a UEFA licensed coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, the USA, and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non-League and grassroots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience.  Rob Ryles prides himself on having a forward-thinking and progressive approach to the game built through his own experience as well as lessons learned from several highly successful managers and coaches.   Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/robryles See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Give Yourself A Break

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 offer a safe place, people will come to you. They may not know why but they will be attracted to you and they will listen to you. Be the creator of that safe place. There is a drive towards simplicity that requires discipline otherwise we drift to complexity and chaos. It is the discipline that keeps us on that road and it requires effort. The inability to reach your goals instantly may leave you feeling weak. If you had the strength you would be there now. Understand and teach your people that struggle is part of the process and to stand back and see the bigger picture. Clear the space, we can use this principle for many different scenarios. It may mean tidying up your workspace, it may also mean tidying up your mind so that you focus on one thing at a time. BEST MOMENTS “It all begins with ourselves.” “The sooner we learn to accept that, the better people we will be.” “Be the creator of that safe place where people can fail, and it still is ok.”  VALUABLE RESOURCES Leader Manager Coach Podcast The Stoic Art of Living: Inner Resilience and Outer Results - Tom Morris     ABOUT THE HOST Rob Ryles is a UEFA licensed coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, the USA, and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non-League and grassroots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience.   Rob Ryles prides himself on having a forward-thinking and progressive approach to the game built through his own experience as well as lessons learned from several highly successful managers and coaches.   The Leader Manager Coach Podcast is where we take a deep dive examining knowledge, philosophies, wisdom and insight to help you lead, manage and coach in football, sport and life.   CONTACT METHOD https://www.robryles.co.uk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=uk     Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/robryles See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clearing The Space

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 serve?’. Leadership is all about facilitating other people and their success. It is not about pandering to what you want or your ego, it is about overcoming your ego drivers so that you can help others along the way. That is what real successful leadership is about. If you want your team members to go the extra mile, put in more effort and do more, then you will have to do it yourself to show them and be the example. Don’t doubt the amazing principle of going the extra mile. Stillness, quiet or meditation is something you should consider. Something that can help you understand its power is the work of Eknath Easwaran. BEST MOMENTS “Timing is everything. One of the key things to get to that point is listening.” “This will have an impact on the power of your words.” “Treat everybody as an individual.”  VALUABLE RESOURCES Leader Manager Coach Podcast The Stoic Art of Living: Inner Resilience and Outer Results - Tom Morris  ABOUT THE HOST Rob Ryles is a UEFA licensed coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, the USA, and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non-League and grassroots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience. Rob Ryles prides himself on having a forward-thinking and progressive approach to the game built through his own experience as well as lessons learned from several highly successful managers and coaches. The Leader Manager Coach Podcast is where we take a deep dive examining knowledge, philosophies, wisdom and insight to help you lead, manage and coach in football, sport and life. CONTACT METHOD https://www.robryles.co.uk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=uk Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/robryles See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Eknath Easwaran’s Words To Live By (Part 7/12)

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 individual, they have to be allowed to touch their greatness and not be what somebody else wants them to be. It is completely valuable to be aware of the compulsions of the social world that we live in. We have to be reminded consistently that our energy belongs to us and it is for us to decide what we do with that. If anybody is going to be successful they have to focus and you have to be focused to facilitate the success of others. Sometimes we work extremely hard and do as much as we possibly can to achieve something, and it doesn't work out the way that we want it. Sometimes there comes a time when the best thing to do is to let go, step back and allow it to happen. The momentum will be too strong and we will fritter away our energy trying to change something that already has momentum. As you get a little bit of wisdom, you recognise where momentum is. You will find yourself riding the momentum and learn when to step in and step out. Constantly paddling upstream is a way to burn out. Remember it is all about the process. It is the process that forges us, that defines, that distils us and it always happens in baby steps. After each baby step comes another one where we are allowed to renew and start fresh again. BEST MOMENTS “We define success as creating great people.” “Yes we’re leaders, yes we show the way but actually, are we just there to bring out the best of people?” “All I need is a good listening to..how true is that?” “Above all else, do the right thing.  VALUABLE RESOURCES Leader Manager Coach Podcast The Stoic Art of Living: Inner Resilience and Outer Results - Tom Morris  ABOUT THE HOST Rob Ryles is a UEFA licensed coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, the USA, and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non-League and grassroots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience. Rob Ryles prides himself on having a forward-thinking and progressive approach to the game built through his own experience as well as lessons learned from a number of highly successful managers and coaches.The Leader Manager Coach Podcast is where we take a deep dive examining knowledge, philosophies, wisdom and insight to help you lead, manage and coach in football, sport and life.   CONTACT METHOD https://www.robryles.co.uk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=uk         Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/robryles See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Developing Great People, Developing Great Players

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 TAKEAWAYS Life 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 you got a sisterhood/brotherhood, a culture, a teammate bond? The consistency you have is found within your family, community and support networks. These people will continue to support you no matter what, and if you have nothing else, you have that.   BEST MOMENTS “Your success is my success, but if I fail so do you.” “He talks about being criticised, well done.” “Just do your best.” “He knows his career is vulnerable.”  VALUABLE RESOURCES Leader Manager Coach Podcast The Stoic Art of Living: Inner Resilience and Outer Results - Tom Morris     ABOUT THE HOST Rob Ryles is a UEFA A licensed coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, USA, and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non-League and grassroots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience.   Rob Ryles prides himself on having a forward thinking and progressive approach to the game built through his own experience as well as lessons learned from a number of highly successful managers and coaches.   The Leader Manager Coach Podcast is where we take a deep dive examining knowledge, philosophies, wisdom and insight to help you lead, manage and coach in football, sport and life.   CONTACT METHOD https://www.robryles.co.uk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=uk       Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/robryles See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Marcus Rashfords Lessons To Young Players

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 things we focus on can grow and become stronger. Those things have to be what we value, otherwise it won’t work. We have to pay a price for what it is we want. Pay your price, it is a non negotiable for you. It is your journey, only you can walk it. You might as well start.   BEST MOMENTS “You should know what the three, four, five or half dozen values are, that you live your life around, because it’s your life.” “Maybe we should just filter out what we don’t need anyway.” “We cannot be everything to all people, all the time.”  VALUABLE RESOURCES Leader Manager Coach Podcast The Stoic Art of Living: Inner Resilience and Outer Results - Tom Morris     ABOUT THE HOST Rob Ryles is a UEFA A licensed coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, USA, and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non-League and grassroots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience.   Rob Ryles prides himself on having a forward thinking and progressive approach to the game built through his own experience as well as lessons learned from a number of highly successful managers and coaches.   The Leader Manager Coach Podcast is where we take a deep dive examining knowledge, philosophies, wisdom and insight to help you lead, manage and coach in football, sport and life.   CONTACT METHOD https://www.robryles.co.uk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=uk Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/robryles See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Your Way, Your Truth, Your Life.

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 that some people do not hear. As it is our own pain, struggle and challenge we have to go through it and come out the other side. This is the road to glory, our glory. What other people think does not matter. We can all have wise councils and mentors and such things should be applauded. However, the answer is always to listen to the wise and filter what they say through yourself. Because ultimately, you are the one that hears it. Ask yourself ‘does this path have a heart?’ If so, it is probably the right way.     BEST MOMENTS “They are your challenges, they are not mine, they are yours, they are unique to you.” “Without them, your life wouldn't have the meaning that it did.” “You want to be a leader who facilitates great people.” “Does this path have a heart?”    VALUABLE RESOURCES Leader Manager Coach Podcast The Stoic Art of Living: Inner Resilience and Outer Results - Tom Morris  ABOUT THE HOST Rob Ryles is a UEFA A licensed coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, USA, and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non-League and grassroots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience.   Rob Ryles prides himself on having a forward thinking and progressive approach to the game built through his own experience as well as lessons learned from a number of highly successful managers and coaches.   The Leader Manager Coach Podcast is where we take a deep dive examining knowledge, philosophies, wisdom and insight to help you lead, manage and coach in football, sport and life.   CONTACT METHOD https://www.robryles.co.uk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=uk   Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/robryles See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Owning Your Own Pain

Welcome to The Leader Manager Coach Podcast, where we take a deep dive examining knowledge, philosophies, wisdom and insight to help you lead, manage and coach in football, sport and life. Leader Manager Coach is presented by Rob Ryles. Rob is a UEFA qualified coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, USA, Asia and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non League and grass roots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience.

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