S8: Episode 11 - Better coaching is better connecting with Nick Winkelman

This week’s episode is an amazing conversation with Nick Winkelman, the head of athletic performance & science for the Irish Rugby Football Union. on how  coaches should communicate with their clients. 

He shared on how to communicate to others that you can truly understand their being and to know their language and the “Why” they’re doing things, “Why” they want to achieve something. 

If you want to communicate not just in the sense of talking but to be aware of someone’s thought, perspective, and the whole being of the person then don’t miss this episode. You’ll learn a lot on why and how we should be present in the moment.

 

Important things discussed:

1. Two large form of communication: 
   1. Interpersonal - connecting with you as a person
   2. Movement Communication - connecting with you as an embodied movement system that thinks and feels and is aware.
2. Learning someone’s language that can only be possible from a blank slate, blank canvas, powerful listening and listening doesn’t take personalities.
3. Utterly present in the moment and it needs practice.