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Welcome to the Ethos FC Community 🙌🏻
Culture is set by the adults. Not by the children. Not by the fixtures, the facilities, or the results. By how the adults in the room choose to behave on the touchline, in the classroom, in the changing room, at pick-up time. Get the adults and the environment right and children thrive. Get them wrong and no amount of good intentions makes up for it. That’s what Ethos FC exists to change. Who this is for? Coaches. Parents. Teachers. Club leaders. Anyone responsible for the environment a young person walks into. You don’t need to be in football. The pitch is where I do most of my work, but the principle travels I’ve spent over 15 years in education watching the same thing play out in classrooms. What we do here • Share what actually works in building character, confidence and culture • Talk honestly about the hard bits difficult parents, touchline behaviour, volunteer burnout, the pressure to win • Work through the ETHOS framework together: Environment, Trust, Honesty, Ownership, Support • Practical resources, session ideas, and conversations you can take straight back to your club or setting What we don’t do Drills and tactics. There are thousands of places for that, but will happily point you in the right direction. This is about the other 90% the bit that determines whether a child comes back next week. To get started: drop a comment introducing yourself. Who are you, where are you, and what’s the one thing about culture in your setting you’d change tomorrow if you could? Glad you’re here and together we will transform lives, communities and have a global impact for good 💪🏻 Paul
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The question I'd ask you before any drill
A big welcome to the new coaches who've joined this week. Really glad you're here. Here's the question I start with whenever I work with a coach: Ten years from now, one of the young people you coach this season is grown up. Someone asks them about their grassroots football. What do you hope they say about you? Not the results. Not the league table. You. When coaches answer this honestly, it almost always comes back to three things: they felt safe, they felt like they mattered, and they loved coming. The useful part is that all three get built in small moments, not big team talks. Try watching for these at your next session: • The first thirty seconds. Who gets greeted by name when they arrive, and who just drifts in? • Who gets the jobs. Cones, bibs, captain's armband. Is it the same few every week, or shared around? • The moment after a mistake. What's the first thing you say, and what does your face do? Those three moments are where your ten-year answer is being written right now, every week. This is the exact question we open the Ethos Foundations course with inside The Dressing Room, because everything else builds from it. Coaches write their answer down in week one and keep coming back to it as they go. Your turn: tell me what age group you coach, and finish this sentence in the comments 👇 "In ten years, I hope they say I…"
What got you into football?
So whatever capacity you are in, coaching etc. what made you start being involved in it?
Brilliant
Great to see Paul getting a passion of his off the ground , we have spent many a time discussing grass roots kids football , and the part parents have to play in the development
My children teach me more about leadership than some adults
He gave the ball away in a bad spot last week, it led to a goal, and instead of blaming the pass before it or going quiet he turned to his own team and said “that was on me.” Straight away. No hesitation. No coach told him to do that in the moment. Nobody was watching for it. He just did it because somewhere, that’s the environment he’s grown up in. That’s what Honesty actually looks like. Not never getting it wrong being able to say “I got that wrong” without your whole world falling apart. And when one kid does it out loud, it quietly gives everyone else on the pitch permission to do the same. Over to you: • Have you seen a kid do something like this own a mistake without being prompted? What happened? • And on the flip side what usually stops kids from admitting when they’ve got it wrong?
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