Leadership and Coaching in Cricket by Gary Kirsten

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In this first volume, Former professional cricketer and World Cup winning cricket coach pulls back the curtain into the principles, methods and strategies used during his tenure with the Indian and South African Cricket teams who both reached Number One in the world. In his authentic and conversational style Gary reveals his best thinking on leadership and coaching and how best to apply it to the leading of any organization or team through anecdotal stories, experience and deep knowledge.
 
Gary tackles topics of effective Man Management including some rich insight into various experiences he had with the world's best players. Building relationships and developing trust is paramount in the success of any team. An influential leader can optimize all players performance and gain critical buy in to connect to the teams vision. In this course, Gary will share knowledge on how to foster these relationships with players and staff which lead to improved morale and cohesion in teams.
 
The topic of team culture is one which sits close to Gary's heart. The values and every day behaviours within a team play a pivotal role in the providing a competitive edge needed in high performing teams. Gary shares the details on creating and sustaining a winning team culture and the advantages of keeping this sacred in the team environment.
 
One of the tools that any coach and leader should possess is the ability to communicate effectively. Feedback is the breakfast of champions and Gary delves into the details in order to debrief with clarity and not only provide quality feedback but challenges leaders to feed forward in order to form the two-way, solutions based environment needed for growth and development of all stakeholders
 
Selecting and dropping players can be one of the most difficult tasks a coach and leader has to encounter. Gary is no stranger to this and his crisp approach to recruitment will make these decisions clearer and provide you with practical steps to move a player in and out of a team with confidence. As a leader one needs to be able to "put the right people on the bus", but your job does not stop there as Gary's narrative will show.
 
The High Quality content, quizzes and downloadable resources are perfect to provide an engaged and holistic view on leadership and coaching providing knowledge and practical steps to grow yourself and those around you.