[Albion] Potter - emotional intelligence:

[Sarisbury Seagull]

I was thinking about this earlier, whilst I believe Potter improved us tactically on the pitch almost immediately and has continued to do so, three years on I really believe we’re starting to see the benefit of this side of his coaching.

We have a really mature and intelligent group of players now and they’ve all improved or are improving this side of their game under him dramatically which I believe is a huge reason for our consistent excellent form these days.

It was Trossard I was particularly thinking of, he seems so mature and quick thinking on the pitch these days, far more so than when he first joined. He’s not alone though the whole team have improved in this area, even those already more experienced like Dunk, Gross, Welbeck and Lallana. Cucurella did throughout last season, Bissouma did over 3 seasons, Mac Allister is making huge strides, March continues to do so.

He obviously did similar in Sweden in his time there but it is great to see first hand with our squad.

 

[BN41Albion]

Completely agree - I too really feel we're the fruits of this side of his coaching. Gross another clear example for me. Such a mature squad with mature leadership who all clearly buy into the subtle changes in tactics GP makes game by game depending on the oppo, and are able to carry out various tactics seamlessly - also due to GP instilling the belief in the players. We had more possession than Liverpool at Anfield last season for example - almost unheard of!

I wonder what Cucurella thinks about Tuchel and his management style as well as complete lack of maturity on the sidelines and with the media. Yes he's joined one of the big boys but there must be part of him that misses the squad and leadership at little ol brighton. Biss perhaps too but he was always a bit more of a free spirit anyway and Conte isn't as much of a **** as Tuchel

Edit: maybe wasn't at anfield but I swear we had more possession than someone like liverpool away last season - and almost matched other top teams stats wise! All comes from GP giving the players the belief

 

[AmexRuislip]

Completely agree - I too really feel we're the fruits of this side of his coaching. Gross another clear example for me. Such a mature squad with mature leadership who all clearly buy into the subtle changes in tactics GP makes game by game depending on the oppo, and are able to carry out various tactics seamlessly - also due to GP instilling the belief in the players. We had more possession than Liverpool at Anfield last season for example - almost unheard of!

I wonder what Cucurella thinks about Tuchel and his management style as well as complete lack of maturity on the sidelines and with the media. Yes he's joined one of the big boys but there must be part of him that misses the squad and leadership at little ol brighton. Biss perhaps too but he was always a bit more of a free spirit anyway and Conte isn't as much of a **** as Tuchel

Going off topic, I've always thought Tuchel has an uncanny resemblance to Mason Verger in the Hannibal movie.

Back onto the topic in hand.
I think GP's astute calmness flows through the whole club.

 

[Popeye]

I want him to adopt me.

 

[B-right-on]

I think it takes TIME to get your thoughts and ideas across to others in such a way that they can absorb them and act on them.


Yes you can have a quick fix to resolve issues, but the long term philosophy change takes a lot of work to get across and, more importantly, get the others to believe in.

Its taken years but the players are really buying into the GPott philosophy and are living it on the pitch.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Its taken years but the players are really buying into the GPott philosophy and are living it on the pitch.

And off the pitch as well, Gross has just signed up to play one of the dames in Dick Whittington at the Swindon Apollo over Christmas and Tross is appearing in Swan Lake at the Royal Ballet next month.

If you cannae beat them, join them, as GraPott always says.

 

[US Seagull]

Shame it did really seem to click for Aaron Connolly, but I guess you can't reach everybody.

 

[Stat Brother]

I guess it's lucky then we didn't bin him off before Arsenal away, last season.

 

[Happy Exile]

It's not often I read a thread on NSC and think I can actually offer anything more meaningful than a pitiful attempt at humour but this aligns a bit with what I do for a living. In a way I still find bizarre and with enormous imposter syndrome, (and this is impossible to talk about without sounding like it's an outtake from Twenty Twelve) part of what I get paid for is helping people in the corporate world develop emotional intelligence and use neuroscience and psychology to perform better - a lot of what I bring in to what I do is from sport but also the arts because cinema (for example) is amazing for all this too.

I could geek about it for DAYS but instead what I'll point out is the entirely obvious and that one of the key attributes of successful leadership is role-modelling of the behaviours you want to see in others. Combine that with emotional intelligence to bring the best out of people and consciously adapt to meet them where they need you rather than where you need them and it's basically a super-power. Read anything about Fergie at United and this was him too.

Like Fergie at United, Potter's been given time which is essential for it to work. So if we think about what behaviours Potter is role-modelling in public, and how that's going to be amplified massively in private with the players, you can also see how that now comes through them too in the way they play and talk and perform. It's in Potter's interviews too - he wants them to develop personally as well as professionally, he sees football as a means to players becoming better people too etc etc. Watching Potter is like a textbook in emotional intelligence training brought to glorious life - he'll be doing most of it innately I reckon, because he seems like a very decent bloke who just "gets" people, but the academic side he's got will absolutely give the confidence and evidence-base to press on when things are looking less pleasant if he's doubting himself.

There's masses and masses in emotional intelligence work about how you create a culture of trust in a team and you can see that in his work, and that rounded development of people and the seeing them as "more than their jobs" that Potter does is a huge part of it. You can see that trust then come through on the pitch. Want to play March or whoever out of position? That's the consequence of 12 months working on them as a full human being to build their trust in your judgement as well as their own judgement as much as it's working on them tactically as a player. Another biiiiiiiig part of that is constantly demonstrating you have someone's best interests at heart. So if you're an Albion player and working with Potter is helping you be a better husband / father / human and you can see how it's setting you up for life after the game too you're going to love him and trust him more than anything. It's no wonder they look such a happy bunch. It's not just the players Potter will be influencing and even working with either, it'll be the whole set up at the club he'll be driving, because if the security guy is happy, positive and focused on the same things as Trossard that actually makes a difference. Southgate, for whatever his faults, has done an amazing emotional intelligence job with England and knowing a bit about how he's used psychologists and organisation design specialists to map all the player touch-points (God, I hate corporate speak) it's similar to Brighton and Potter - everyone an England player encounters at any point in their time with the England team has the same ethos, attitude, values, approach, and common language talking about things (e.g. it's never "we'll try" unless by mistake, it's always "we will"...they never "understand" because that's hard to measure, they "demonstrate they can" etc etc). It's small things, but Southgate attributed some of the success in Russia with these changes and the fact the people who serve up food in the canteen are part of a whole experience for everyone that reinforces an attitude and approach.

The "us against the world" team building of Mourinho has a limited shelf-life for trust which is why he always falls apart spectacularly. I love watching Tuchel constantly blaming things outside of his control too because it's going to implode massively soon (people who constantly feel they have no autonomy over their outcomes, as the Chelsea team will be feeling because it's never their fault, never sustain any kind of success - you can't be permanently angry and feeling powerless and if you're unaccountable for failure your brain will automatically cap how accountable you feel you can be for success...they might still win stuff, but not as much as they could have). I know Howe isn't popular but I reckon he's probably pretty good on EI. Moyes too. Klopp will be great at it. I suspect Arteta is rubbish. Lampard won't be good because he seems to have too much of an ego and victim complex, Gerrard though - like Guardiola - isn't worried about a bit of vulnerability occasionally so I think is probably good too. Rogers I reckon has read all the books and is good at applying it but doesn't have it innately so it'll always be management theory and not "lived".

Anyway. I'm geeking FOR DAYS if I don't stop now. It'll be a sad day when Potter goes, but again, if you listen to him he talks about how Bloom and Barber role-model behaviours (Barber's legendary accessibility to us randoms for example is amazing role-modelling of wanting to ensure we all feel valued even if we disagree about something - everyone feeling valued being a core of emotional intelligence) so we can be sure whoever the next manager is will be a continuation on a theme and style, and that can only be a good thing. From the bit of research I've done into it for work I think Liverpool are the closest Premier League club to us in that style of operating where emotional intelligence and "whole player" work is the norm, that's why I tipped Potter to be Klopp's successor unless he goes straight to the England manager job. I think he could walk into either and not have a big cultural rebuilding job and that'd suit Potter and either Liverpool or England a lot.

The only other thing I'll say, and I can do this with absolute authority on the topic, is that I wish I had Potter's beard.

 

[Stat Brother]

It's not often I read a thread on NSC and think I can actually offer anything more meaningful than a pitiful attempt at humour but this aligns a bit with what I do for a living. In a way I still find bizarre and with enormous imposter syndrome, (and this is impossible to talk about without sounding like it's an outtake from Twenty Twelve) part of what I get paid for is helping people in the corporate world develop emotional intelligence and use neuroscience and psychology to perform better - a lot of what I bring in to what I do is from sport but also the arts because cinema (for example) is amazing for all this too.

I could geek about it for DAYS but instead what I'll point out is the entirely obvious and that one of the key attributes of successful leadership is role-modelling of the behaviours you want to see in others. Combine that with emotional intelligence to bring the best out of people and consciously adapt to meet them where they need you rather than where you need them and it's basically a super-power. Read anything about Fergie at United and this was him too.

Like Fergie at United, Potter's been given time which is essential for it to work. So if we think about what behaviours Potter is role-modelling in public, and how that's going to be amplified massively in private with the players, you can also see how that now comes through them too in the way they play and talk and perform. It's in Potter's interviews too - he wants them to develop personally as well as professionally, he sees football as a means to players becoming better people too etc etc. Watching Potter is like a textbook in emotional intelligence training brought to glorious life - he'll be doing most of it innately I reckon, because he seems like a very decent bloke who just "gets" people, but the academic side he's got will absolutely give the confidence and evidence-base to press on when things are looking less pleasant if he's doubting himself.

There's masses and masses in emotional intelligence work about how you create a culture of trust in a team and you can see that in his work, and that rounded development of people and the seeing them as "more than their jobs" that Potter does is a huge part of it. You can see that trust then come through on the pitch. Want to play March or whoever out of position? That's the consequence of 12 months working on them as a full human being to build their trust in your judgement as well as their own judgement as much as it's working on them tactically as a player. Another biiiiiiiig part of that is constantly demonstrating you have someone's best interests at heart. So if you're an Albion player and working with Potter is helping you be a better husband / father / human and you can see how it's setting you up for life after the game too you're going to love him and trust him more than anything. It's no wonder they look such a happy bunch. It's not just the players Potter will be influencing and even working with either, it'll be the whole set up at the club he'll be driving, because if the security guy is happy, positive and focused on the same things as Trossard that actually makes a difference. Southgate, for whatever his faults, has done an amazing emotional intelligence job with England and knowing a bit about how he's used psychologists and organisation design specialists to map all the player touch-points (God, I hate corporate speak) it's similar to Brighton and Potter - everyone an England player encounters at any point in their time with the England team has the same ethos, attitude, values, approach, and common language talking about things (e.g. it's never "we'll try" unless by mistake, it's always "we will"...they never "understand" because that's hard to measure, they "demonstrate they can" etc etc). It's small things, but Southgate attributed some of the success in Russia with these changes and the fact the people who serve up food in the canteen are part of a whole experience for everyone that reinforces an attitude and approach.

The "us against the world" team building of Mourinho has a limited shelf-life for trust which is why he always falls apart spectacularly. I love watching Tuchel constantly blaming things outside of his control too because it's going to implode massively soon (people who constantly feel they have no autonomy over their outcomes, as the Chelsea team will be feeling because it's never their fault, never sustain any kind of success - you can't be permanently angry and feeling powerless and if you're unaccountable for failure your brain will automatically cap how accountable you feel you can be for success...they might still win stuff, but not as much as they could have). I know Howe isn't popular but I reckon he's probably pretty good on EI. Moyes too. Klopp will be great at it. I suspect Arteta is rubbish. Lampard won't be good because he seems to have too much of an ego and victim complex, Gerrard though - like Guardiola - isn't worried about a bit of vulnerability occasionally so I think is probably good too. Rogers I reckon has read all the books and is good at applying it but doesn't have it innately so it'll always be management theory and not "lived".

Anyway. I'm geeking FOR DAYS if I don't stop now. It'll be a sad day when Potter goes, but again, if you listen to him he talks about how Bloom and Barber role-model behaviours (Barber's legendary accessibility to us randoms for example is amazing role-modelling of wanting to ensure we all feel valued even if we disagree about something - everyone feeling valued being a core of emotional intelligence) so we can be sure whoever the next manager is will be a continuation on a theme and style, and that can only be a good thing. From the bit of research I've done into it for work I think Liverpool are the closest Premier League club to us in that style of operating where emotional intelligence and "whole player" work is the norm, that's why I tipped Potter to be Klopp's successor unless he goes straight to the England manager job. I think he could walk into either and not have a big cultural rebuilding job and that'd suit Potter and either Liverpool or England a lot.

The only other thing I'll say, and I can do this with absolute authority on the topic, is that I wish I had Potter's beard.

I think the people of this country have had enough of experts.

 

[Happy Exile]

I think the people of this country have had enough of experts.

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

I think the people of this country have had enough of experts.

whoops wrong poster

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

It's not often I read a thread on NSC and think I can actually offer anything more meaningful than a pitiful attempt at humour but this aligns a bit with what I do for a living. In a way I still find bizarre and with enormous imposter syndrome, (and this is impossible to talk about without sounding like it's an outtake from Twenty Twelve) part of what I get paid for is helping people in the corporate world develop emotional intelligence and use neuroscience and psychology to perform better - a lot of what I bring in to what I do is from sport but also the arts because cinema (for example) is amazing for all this too.

I could geek about it for DAYS but instead what I'll point out is the entirely obvious and that one of the key attributes of successful leadership is role-modelling of the behaviours you want to see in others. Combine that with emotional intelligence to bring the best out of people and consciously adapt to meet them where they need you rather than where you need them and it's basically a super-power. Read anything about Fergie at United and this was him too.

Like Fergie at United, Potter's been given time which is essential for it to work. So if we think about what behaviours Potter is role-modelling in public, and how that's going to be amplified massively in private with the players, you can also see how that now comes through them too in the way they play and talk and perform. It's in Potter's interviews too - he wants them to develop personally as well as professionally, he sees football as a means to players becoming better people too etc etc. Watching Potter is like a textbook in emotional intelligence training brought to glorious life - he'll be doing most of it innately I reckon, because he seems like a very decent bloke who just "gets" people, but the academic side he's got will absolutely give the confidence and evidence-base to press on when things are looking less pleasant if he's doubting himself.

There's masses and masses in emotional intelligence work about how you create a culture of trust in a team and you can see that in his work, and that rounded development of people and the seeing them as "more than their jobs" that Potter does is a huge part of it. You can see that trust then come through on the pitch. Want to play March or whoever out of position? That's the consequence of 12 months working on them as a full human being to build their trust in your judgement as well as their own judgement as much as it's working on them tactically as a player. Another biiiiiiiig part of that is constantly demonstrating you have someone's best interests at heart. So if you're an Albion player and working with Potter is helping you be a better husband / father / human and you can see how it's setting you up for life after the game too you're going to love him and trust him more than anything. It's no wonder they look such a happy bunch. It's not just the players Potter will be influencing and even working with either, it'll be the whole set up at the club he'll be driving, because if the security guy is happy, positive and focused on the same things as Trossard that actually makes a difference. Southgate, for whatever his faults, has done an amazing emotional intelligence job with England and knowing a bit about how he's used psychologists and organisation design specialists to map all the player touch-points (God, I hate corporate speak) it's similar to Brighton and Potter - everyone an England player encounters at any point in their time with the England team has the same ethos, attitude, values, approach, and common language talking about things (e.g. it's never "we'll try" unless by mistake, it's always "we will"...they never "understand" because that's hard to measure, they "demonstrate they can" etc etc). It's small things, but Southgate attributed some of the success in Russia with these changes and the fact the people who serve up food in the canteen are part of a whole experience for everyone that reinforces an attitude and approach.

The "us against the world" team building of Mourinho has a limited shelf-life for trust which is why he always falls apart spectacularly. I love watching Tuchel constantly blaming things outside of his control too because it's going to implode massively soon (people who constantly feel they have no autonomy over their outcomes, as the Chelsea team will be feeling because it's never their fault, never sustain any kind of success - you can't be permanently angry and feeling powerless and if you're unaccountable for failure your brain will automatically cap how accountable you feel you can be for success...they might still win stuff, but not as much as they could have). I know Howe isn't popular but I reckon he's probably pretty good on EI. Moyes too. Klopp will be great at it. I suspect Arteta is rubbish. Lampard won't be good because he seems to have too much of an ego and victim complex, Gerrard though - like Guardiola - isn't worried about a bit of vulnerability occasionally so I think is probably good too. Rogers I reckon has read all the books and is good at applying it but doesn't have it innately so it'll always be management theory and not "lived".

Anyway. I'm geeking FOR DAYS if I don't stop now. It'll be a sad day when Potter goes, but again, if you listen to him he talks about how Bloom and Barber role-model behaviours (Barber's legendary accessibility to us randoms for example is amazing role-modelling of wanting to ensure we all feel valued even if we disagree about something - everyone feeling valued being a core of emotional intelligence) so we can be sure whoever the next manager is will be a continuation on a theme and style, and that can only be a good thing. From the bit of research I've done into it for work I think Liverpool are the closest Premier League club to us in that style of operating where emotional intelligence and "whole player" work is the norm, that's why I tipped Potter to be Klopp's successor unless he goes straight to the England manager job. I think he could walk into either and not have a big cultural rebuilding job and that'd suit Potter and either Liverpool or England a lot.

The only other thing I'll say, and I can do this with absolute authority on the topic, is that I wish I had Potter's beard.

 

[Barnet Seagull]

Great post. [emoji106]


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[prawnsarnies]

It's not often I read a thread on NSC and think I can actually offer anything more meaningful than a pitiful attempt at humour but this aligns a bit with what I do for a living. In a way I still find bizarre and with enormous imposter syndrome, (and this is impossible to talk about without sounding like it's an outtake from Twenty Twelve) part of what I get paid for is helping people in the corporate world develop emotional intelligence and use neuroscience and psychology to perform better - a lot of what I bring in to what I do is from sport but also the arts because cinema (for example) is amazing for all this too.

I could geek about it for DAYS but instead what I'll point out is the entirely obvious and that one of the key attributes of successful leadership is role-modelling of the behaviours you want to see in others. Combine that with emotional intelligence to bring the best out of people and consciously adapt to meet them where they need you rather than where you need them and it's basically a super-power. Read anything about Fergie at United and this was him too.

Like Fergie at United, Potter's been given time which is essential for it to work. So if we think about what behaviours Potter is role-modelling in public, and how that's going to be amplified massively in private with the players, you can also see how that now comes through them too in the way they play and talk and perform. It's in Potter's interviews too - he wants them to develop personally as well as professionally, he sees football as a means to players becoming better people too etc etc. Watching Potter is like a textbook in emotional intelligence training brought to glorious life - he'll be doing most of it innately I reckon, because he seems like a very decent bloke who just "gets" people, but the academic side he's got will absolutely give the confidence and evidence-base to press on when things are looking less pleasant if he's doubting himself.

There's masses and masses in emotional intelligence work about how you create a culture of trust in a team and you can see that in his work, and that rounded development of people and the seeing them as "more than their jobs" that Potter does is a huge part of it. You can see that trust then come through on the pitch. Want to play March or whoever out of position? That's the consequence of 12 months working on them as a full human being to build their trust in your judgement as well as their own judgement as much as it's working on them tactically as a player. Another biiiiiiiig part of that is constantly demonstrating you have someone's best interests at heart. So if you're an Albion player and working with Potter is helping you be a better husband / father / human and you can see how it's setting you up for life after the game too you're going to love him and trust him more than anything. It's no wonder they look such a happy bunch. It's not just the players Potter will be influencing and even working with either, it'll be the whole set up at the club he'll be driving, because if the security guy is happy, positive and focused on the same things as Trossard that actually makes a difference. Southgate, for whatever his faults, has done an amazing emotional intelligence job with England and knowing a bit about how he's used psychologists and organisation design specialists to map all the player touch-points (God, I hate corporate speak) it's similar to Brighton and Potter - everyone an England player encounters at any point in their time with the England team has the same ethos, attitude, values, approach, and common language talking about things (e.g. it's never "we'll try" unless by mistake, it's always "we will"...they never "understand" because that's hard to measure, they "demonstrate they can" etc etc). It's small things, but Southgate attributed some of the success in Russia with these changes and the fact the people who serve up food in the canteen are part of a whole experience for everyone that reinforces an attitude and approach.

The "us against the world" team building of Mourinho has a limited shelf-life for trust which is why he always falls apart spectacularly. I love watching Tuchel constantly blaming things outside of his control too because it's going to implode massively soon (people who constantly feel they have no autonomy over their outcomes, as the Chelsea team will be feeling because it's never their fault, never sustain any kind of success - you can't be permanently angry and feeling powerless and if you're unaccountable for failure your brain will automatically cap how accountable you feel you can be for success...they might still win stuff, but not as much as they could have). I know Howe isn't popular but I reckon he's probably pretty good on EI. Moyes too. Klopp will be great at it. I suspect Arteta is rubbish. Lampard won't be good because he seems to have too much of an ego and victim complex, Gerrard though - like Guardiola - isn't worried about a bit of vulnerability occasionally so I think is probably good too. Rogers I reckon has read all the books and is good at applying it but doesn't have it innately so it'll always be management theory and not "lived".

Anyway. I'm geeking FOR DAYS if I don't stop now. It'll be a sad day when Potter goes, but again, if you listen to him he talks about how Bloom and Barber role-model behaviours (Barber's legendary accessibility to us randoms for example is amazing role-modelling of wanting to ensure we all feel valued even if we disagree about something - everyone feeling valued being a core of emotional intelligence) so we can be sure whoever the next manager is will be a continuation on a theme and style, and that can only be a good thing. From the bit of research I've done into it for work I think Liverpool are the closest Premier League club to us in that style of operating where emotional intelligence and "whole player" work is the norm, that's why I tipped Potter to be Klopp's successor unless he goes straight to the England manager job. I think he could walk into either and not have a big cultural rebuilding job and that'd suit Potter and either Liverpool or England a lot.

The only other thing I'll say, and I can do this with absolute authority on the topic, is that I wish I had Potter's beard.

Would you say Potter would not make a good England manager as he wouldn't get to work with the players on a daily basis?

 

[Codner's Wallop]

I think it takes TIME to get your thoughts and ideas across to others in such a way that they can absorb them and act on them.


Yes you can have a quick fix to resolve issues, but the long term philosophy change takes a lot of work to get across and, more importantly, get the others to believe in.

Its taken years but the players are really buying into the GPott philosophy and are living it on the pitch.

I predict Locadia to become the final product in 2037.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

It's not often I read a thread on NSC and think I can actually offer anything more meaningful than a pitiful attempt at humour but this aligns a bit with what I do for a living. In a way I still find bizarre and with enormous imposter syndrome, (and this is impossible to talk about without sounding like it's an outtake from Twenty Twelve) part of what I get paid for is helping people in the corporate world develop emotional intelligence and use neuroscience and psychology to perform better - a lot of what I bring in to what I do is from sport but also the arts because cinema (for example) is amazing for all this too.

I could geek about it for DAYS but instead what I'll point out is the entirely obvious and that one of the key attributes of successful leadership is role-modelling of the behaviours you want to see in others. Combine that with emotional intelligence to bring the best out of people and consciously adapt to meet them where they need you rather than where you need them and it's basically a super-power. Read anything about Fergie at United and this was him too.

Like Fergie at United, Potter's been given time which is essential for it to work. So if we think about what behaviours Potter is role-modelling in public, and how that's going to be amplified massively in private with the players, you can also see how that now comes through them too in the way they play and talk and perform. It's in Potter's interviews too - he wants them to develop personally as well as professionally, he sees football as a means to players becoming better people too etc etc. Watching Potter is like a textbook in emotional intelligence training brought to glorious life - he'll be doing most of it innately I reckon, because he seems like a very decent bloke who just "gets" people, but the academic side he's got will absolutely give the confidence and evidence-base to press on when things are looking less pleasant if he's doubting himself.

There's masses and masses in emotional intelligence work about how you create a culture of trust in a team and you can see that in his work, and that rounded development of people and the seeing them as "more than their jobs" that Potter does is a huge part of it. You can see that trust then come through on the pitch. Want to play March or whoever out of position? That's the consequence of 12 months working on them as a full human being to build their trust in your judgement as well as their own judgement as much as it's working on them tactically as a player. Another biiiiiiiig part of that is constantly demonstrating you have someone's best interests at heart. So if you're an Albion player and working with Potter is helping you be a better husband / father / human and you can see how it's setting you up for life after the game too you're going to love him and trust him more than anything. It's no wonder they look such a happy bunch. It's not just the players Potter will be influencing and even working with either, it'll be the whole set up at the club he'll be driving, because if the security guy is happy, positive and focused on the same things as Trossard that actually makes a difference. Southgate, for whatever his faults, has done an amazing emotional intelligence job with England and knowing a bit about how he's used psychologists and organisation design specialists to map all the player touch-points (God, I hate corporate speak) it's similar to Brighton and Potter - everyone an England player encounters at any point in their time with the England team has the same ethos, attitude, values, approach, and common language talking about things (e.g. it's never "we'll try" unless by mistake, it's always "we will"...they never "understand" because that's hard to measure, they "demonstrate they can" etc etc). It's small things, but Southgate attributed some of the success in Russia with these changes and the fact the people who serve up food in the canteen are part of a whole experience for everyone that reinforces an attitude and approach.

The "us against the world" team building of Mourinho has a limited shelf-life for trust which is why he always falls apart spectacularly. I love watching Tuchel constantly blaming things outside of his control too because it's going to implode massively soon (people who constantly feel they have no autonomy over their outcomes, as the Chelsea team will be feeling because it's never their fault, never sustain any kind of success - you can't be permanently angry and feeling powerless and if you're unaccountable for failure your brain will automatically cap how accountable you feel you can be for success...they might still win stuff, but not as much as they could have). I know Howe isn't popular but I reckon he's probably pretty good on EI. Moyes too. Klopp will be great at it. I suspect Arteta is rubbish. Lampard won't be good because he seems to have too much of an ego and victim complex, Gerrard though - like Guardiola - isn't worried about a bit of vulnerability occasionally so I think is probably good too. Rogers I reckon has read all the books and is good at applying it but doesn't have it innately so it'll always be management theory and not "lived".

Anyway. I'm geeking FOR DAYS if I don't stop now. It'll be a sad day when Potter goes, but again, if you listen to him he talks about how Bloom and Barber role-model behaviours (Barber's legendary accessibility to us randoms for example is amazing role-modelling of wanting to ensure we all feel valued even if we disagree about something - everyone feeling valued being a core of emotional intelligence) so we can be sure whoever the next manager is will be a continuation on a theme and style, and that can only be a good thing. From the bit of research I've done into it for work I think Liverpool are the closest Premier League club to us in that style of operating where emotional intelligence and "whole player" work is the norm, that's why I tipped Potter to be Klopp's successor unless he goes straight to the England manager job. I think he could walk into either and not have a big cultural rebuilding job and that'd suit Potter and either Liverpool or England a lot.

The only other thing I'll say, and I can do this with absolute authority on the topic, is that I wish I had Potter's beard.

Thanks for all that! When GP was appointed, I was fascinated and enormously encouraged when reading about his qualifications and style. It’s good - and really interesting - to see someone who knows what they’re talking about validating it. We’re in a good place all round!

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

How very sad a reaction.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

It's not often I read a thread on NSC and think I can actually offer anything more meaningful than a pitiful attempt at humour but this aligns a bit with what I do for a living. In a way I still find bizarre and with enormous imposter syndrome, (and this is impossible to talk about without sounding like it's an outtake from Twenty Twelve) part of what I get paid for is helping people in the corporate world develop emotional intelligence and use neuroscience and psychology to perform better - a lot of what I bring in to what I do is from sport but also the arts because cinema (for example) is amazing for all this too.

I could geek about it for DAYS but instead what I'll point out is the entirely obvious and that one of the key attributes of successful leadership is role-modelling of the behaviours you want to see in others. Combine that with emotional intelligence to bring the best out of people and consciously adapt to meet them where they need you rather than where you need them and it's basically a super-power. Read anything about Fergie at United and this was him too.

Like Fergie at United, Potter's been given time which is essential for it to work. So if we think about what behaviours Potter is role-modelling in public, and how that's going to be amplified massively in private with the players, you can also see how that now comes through them too in the way they play and talk and perform. It's in Potter's interviews too - he wants them to develop personally as well as professionally, he sees football as a means to players becoming better people too etc etc. Watching Potter is like a textbook in emotional intelligence training brought to glorious life - he'll be doing most of it innately I reckon, because he seems like a very decent bloke who just "gets" people, but the academic side he's got will absolutely give the confidence and evidence-base to press on when things are looking less pleasant if he's doubting himself.

There's masses and masses in emotional intelligence work about how you create a culture of trust in a team and you can see that in his work, and that rounded development of people and the seeing them as "more than their jobs" that Potter does is a huge part of it. You can see that trust then come through on the pitch. Want to play March or whoever out of position? That's the consequence of 12 months working on them as a full human being to build their trust in your judgement as well as their own judgement as much as it's working on them tactically as a player. Another biiiiiiiig part of that is constantly demonstrating you have someone's best interests at heart. So if you're an Albion player and working with Potter is helping you be a better husband / father / human and you can see how it's setting you up for life after the game too you're going to love him and trust him more than anything. It's no wonder they look such a happy bunch. It's not just the players Potter will be influencing and even working with either, it'll be the whole set up at the club he'll be driving, because if the security guy is happy, positive and focused on the same things as Trossard that actually makes a difference. Southgate, for whatever his faults, has done an amazing emotional intelligence job with England and knowing a bit about how he's used psychologists and organisation design specialists to map all the player touch-points (God, I hate corporate speak) it's similar to Brighton and Potter - everyone an England player encounters at any point in their time with the England team has the same ethos, attitude, values, approach, and common language talking about things (e.g. it's never "we'll try" unless by mistake, it's always "we will"...they never "understand" because that's hard to measure, they "demonstrate they can" etc etc). It's small things, but Southgate attributed some of the success in Russia with these changes and the fact the people who serve up food in the canteen are part of a whole experience for everyone that reinforces an attitude and approach.

The "us against the world" team building of Mourinho has a limited shelf-life for trust which is why he always falls apart spectacularly. I love watching Tuchel constantly blaming things outside of his control too because it's going to implode massively soon (people who constantly feel they have no autonomy over their outcomes, as the Chelsea team will be feeling because it's never their fault, never sustain any kind of success - you can't be permanently angry and feeling powerless and if you're unaccountable for failure your brain will automatically cap how accountable you feel you can be for success...they might still win stuff, but not as much as they could have). I know Howe isn't popular but I reckon he's probably pretty good on EI. Moyes too. Klopp will be great at it. I suspect Arteta is rubbish. Lampard won't be good because he seems to have too much of an ego and victim complex, Gerrard though - like Guardiola - isn't worried about a bit of vulnerability occasionally so I think is probably good too. Rogers I reckon has read all the books and is good at applying it but doesn't have it innately so it'll always be management theory and not "lived".

Anyway. I'm geeking FOR DAYS if I don't stop now. It'll be a sad day when Potter goes, but again, if you listen to him he talks about how Bloom and Barber role-model behaviours (Barber's legendary accessibility to us randoms for example is amazing role-modelling of wanting to ensure we all feel valued even if we disagree about something - everyone feeling valued being a core of emotional intelligence) so we can be sure whoever the next manager is will be a continuation on a theme and style, and that can only be a good thing. From the bit of research I've done into it for work I think Liverpool are the closest Premier League club to us in that style of operating where emotional intelligence and "whole player" work is the norm, that's why I tipped Potter to be Klopp's successor unless he goes straight to the England manager job. I think he could walk into either and not have a big cultural rebuilding job and that'd suit Potter and either Liverpool or England a lot.

The only other thing I'll say, and I can do this with absolute authority on the topic, is that I wish I had Potter's beard.

What a fascinating post. Thank you.

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

How very sad a reaction.

Get a grip man it was a joke lol It was a long post tho.