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The Inner Game of Leadership
Develop self-awareness, emotional control, trust, communication, and intentional growth to become a better sports leader
Created byIn The Zone
Last updated 8/2026
English
What you'll learn
- Develop greater self-awareness and understand the emotions, experiences, and habits that shape your leadership behaviour.
- Learn practical ways to regulate emotions and stay calm, clear, and effective when leading under pressure.
- Build stronger relationships through consistency, empathy, active listening, trust, and meaningful everyday interactions.
- Improve communication, feedback, reflection, and personal growth to become a more intentional and effective leader
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Course content
5 sections • 5 lectures • 1h 14m total length
Requirements
- No prior qualifications or formal leadership experience are required. This course is suitable for anyone interested in developing their leadership skills. A willingness to reflect on your own behaviour, learn, and apply the ideas to your coaching or leadership practice is all you need.
Description
Great leadership in sport is not just about tactics, winning, or telling people what to do. It starts with understanding yourself.
Inner Game of Leadership is a practical course designed to help coaches, athletes, team leaders, and aspiring sports professionals develop the personal skills that make leadership more effective.
Throughout this course, you will explore five important areas of leadership development. You will begin with self-awareness, learning to recognise your emotions, triggers, values, strengths, blind spots, and the experiences that shape the way you lead. You will then learn about emotional regulation and how to stay steady and make better decisions when facing pressure, mistakes, conflict, or failure.
The course then moves into relationships and trust, exploring how consistency, listening, empathy, and reliability can create stronger connections with athletes and teammates. You will also learn how communication shapes leadership, including how to listen effectively, give useful feedback, ask better questions, and handle difficult conversations.
Finally, you will explore intentional growth and why effective leaders never stop learning. Through reflection, feedback, learning from mistakes, and adapting to changing situations, you will learn how to keep developing as a leader.
Throughout the course, real examples from sporting leaders and athletes, including Gareth Southgate, Novak Djokovic, Carlo Ancelotti, Rafael Nadal, Phil Jackson, Emma Hayes, Pep Guardiola, Gregg Popovich, Roger Federer, and Sir Alex Ferguson, help bring these ideas to life.
Whether you are already coaching, leading a team, or simply want to become a better leader, this course will help you look inward, improve how you work with others, and lead with greater intention.
The goal is simple: become someone worth following.
Who this course is for:
- This course is designed for sports coaches, athletes transitioning into leadership, team captains, sports professionals, aspiring coaches or anyone who wants to become more effective leaders. It is especially valuable for those who want to understand themselves better, manage emotions under pressure, build trust, communicate effectively, and continue developing as leaders.