Chris Panayiotou is the Global Technical Director for Rush Soccer, a worldwide soccer coaching network that has 50,000 players across the globe. Chris is originally from the UK and has been based in America for a number of years and has committed his coaching career to supporting other coaches within the Rush Community to improve and develop to provide the best possible experience for children in their programmes.
In this conversation we reflect on our learning from the 'Future of Coaching' conference which we both attended over the weekend and Chris also shares some valuable insights into his approach and methodology which has seen him named as one of the top coaches in America by the Positive Coaching Alliance.
Some highlights include:
Eliminating the word 'don't' from his vocabulary
The impact his 'super strength' boot bag had on players
How he has worked to engage the 55 Elementary schools in his local area and coached over 80,000 children
The act of noticing that saved one of his players lives!!
Enjoy
'The Rush Soccer Player' Chris's letter to parents outlining the mission statement of the club is available in the resources area of the site
Chris's Peom called 'Football Done' is below
This week's podcast is the final one of 2018...hasn't the year flown by!!
For this episode I asked some of the guests I have had on the show over the year to drop by for a little Christmas sin dig so that they could share their reflections and learnings from the year. It is a bit of a crazy whirlwind of a conversation with people coming and going and we cover a lot of ground but there is some gold in these reflections.
I hope you enjoy it and have a fantastic Christmas and an amazing New Year.
Thanks
Stuart and here is the video as a little extra Christmas present...
This week's podcast is another experiment in sound recording. I am travelling in my car, Mark has just come out of the gym, Juan is in his office at school and John has just got back from taking the children to school. But we still managed to record a conversation!!
You join us as we are planning our forthcoming conference 'The Future of Coaching' as we finalise how we are going to be delivering the sessions and running the conference as well as discussing some of the themes that we will be covering.
We then delve into a couple of hot topics that are facing many of the coaches that we work with and explore some of the ways in which we can address them.
It is a great conversation and has really whetted my appetite for the discussions to come in the New Year!!
Tickets can be booked for the event through the link here.
Enjoy the podcast