Four criteria decide who gets in. Joy Jouret uses MBTI colours so each personality type is covered, spreads the places across age groups so every generation is represented, weighs the interpersonal side and the impact each player has on the team, and takes players from different lines rather than three or four defenders. The group then sits between the staff and the squad. Watch the full masterclass: Building a powerful team.
Joy rejected reward-and-punishment coaching, Pavlov’s classical conditioning, as too basic for her squad. Instead she works through the four I’s: an ideal vision, inspiration that gives amateur players who pay to play a reason to commit, intellectual stimulation that only works if failure is allowed, and individualised consideration, treating the man who just worked a twelve-hour Covid shift as a person before a yo-yo test score. Watch the full masterclass: Building a powerful team.