Coaching Culture with Ben Herring
Coaching Culture with Ben Herring is your weekly deep-dive into the often-overlooked “softer skills” of coaching—cultural innovation, communication, empathy, leadership, dealing with stress, and motivation. Each episode features candid conversations with the world’s top international rugby coaches, who share the personal stories and intangible insights behind their winning cultures, and too their biggest failures and learnings from them. This is where X’s and O’s meet heart and soul, empowering coaches at every level to foster authentic connections, inspire their teams, and elevate their own coaching craft. If you believe that the real gold in rugby lies beyond the scoreboard, Coaching Culture is the podcast for you.
Coaching Culture with Ben Herring
Latest Episodes
The School That Produces Chile's Rugby Captains | The Grange School
A school with 2,100 students shouldn’t feel like a family, yet that’s exactly what we found at Grange School in Santiago, Chile. I’m joined by Francesco “Pancho” Pinha, former Chile captain, lifelong teacher, and the proud tradition keeper who ...
How a State School Built a Rugby Powerhouse | Northampton School for Boys
A state school winning at Twickenham sounds like a fairy tale until you hear how Northampton School for Boys actually built it. We sit down with Phil Beaumont and Simon Heffer, the leaders behind NSB rugby’s decade-long rise from six teams to 1...
The Hidden Cost Of Poor Culture
Poor culture doesn’t just create problems you can see. It quietly steals the best parts of your team: the extra effort people would have given, the performance you expected from talented staff, and the potential that never gets a chance to emer...
What 17,500 Boys Really Want From Adults | Tauranga Boys' Principal Andy Turner
A school can have great buildings, strong results, and a proud sports history and still miss the thing that actually makes young people thrive. We sit down with Andy Turner, principal of Tauranga Boys’ College in New Zealand, to unpack what he ...
The Three Bs Of Modern Coaching | Keynotes & Workshops
Coaching hasn’t gotten softer, it’s gotten more human. We’re seeing it in sport, in business, and in everyday workplace leadership: the old model where players and employees simply adapt to the coach does not hold up the way it used to. So we s...
Fan Mail
Hi Ben. Thanks for the show and the reflections. Picking up on your 10 Jun pod on coaching your child, I was left wondering about how you would approach my situation? You touch on a parent projecting what a child could be. In my case, the child is clear to everyone she will be a really good player as a young adult (in 6 years time) but isn't prepared to admit that would need work and to commit time she thinks she doesn't have available. As a coach (and dad) I've had to back off from trying to help her with the practice and accept she isn't ready to do the work to fulfil her potential and there is a mismatch between what she could do if she tried, and what she is doing. Am waiting for the penny to drop but interested if you have any thoughts on coaching your own child who wants to play but is less keen on the practice? Many thanks. First time messenger. Dave J
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