With the ITM Cup campaigns just finished this edition of the NZRPA Players Own has been edited by the Southland Stags. What rugby team will be the next? PLAYERS IN BUSINESS OUR NAME IN RUGBY WILL 2004 and had a recall in 2009. hold while he played Super Rugby and ONLY HELP YOU SO FAR WHEN He started his own plumbing business then went back to it. YOU FINISH PLAYING, AFTER after the Super Rugby season in “I was lucky that I had a loyal client THAT IT IS DOWN TO HARD 2004 appropriately called Rutledge base and people who understood that YWORK AND GOOD TIME MANAGEMENT Plumbing. when it came to Super Rugby I had SAYS FORMER SUPER RUGBY PLAYER He was clear that his focus was going to be full time with my footy. When AND SOUTHLAND ICON JASON to be providing top service. I came back to the area after Super RUTLEDGE. Jason said “Service is key in business. Rugby my clients came back.” People appreciate good service, good A few years ago he joined forces with manners and being a tidy tradesman. his two younger brothers, Callum a It is simple things like returning builder and Andrew an electrician to people’s phone calls, sticking to time form the Rutledge Trade Group. frames and being honest. It was ironic that when Jason had Time management was crucial while he appendicitis his younger brother was playing for the Stags and running Callum took his place in the front row his business. of the Stags while he recovered from “I was always racing to training and surgery. JASON RUTLEDGE to jobs. It was madness, but I was The brothers find that offering all three always looking to the future.” services under one umbrella of the 38 year-old former hooker Jason Jason had a bad run with injuries. He Rutledge Trade Group has been a smart Rutledge started his plumbing had concussions, snapped his Achilles, move for both them and their clients. apprenticeship by default but it broke his leg, pulled his right hand The family business is going well is something he will be eternally pectoral muscle and pulled his bicep and clients appreciate the fact that grateful for. Jason had experienced off. He stills plays the game with a view they only deal with one company for a concussion in the High School top 4 to playing till he is a 40 year old. He everything states Jason. “They don’t competition. In 1996 his Mum sat him has four staff under him but is firmly have to chase other tradespeople up, down and they decided it would be a committed to staying on the tools. we do it for them!” said Jason. good idea to take three years off rugby. The father of three with one due shortly Jason reflects on his representative Jason decided that he needed a trade knew he always needed to have a plan rugby career fondly but has one bit of and after a stint building dairy sheds he for life outside of rugby with Super advice for young players thought plumbing might be a bit more Rugby the icing on the cake. “Enjoy your time, it is a great lifestyle interesting than making concrete pits. “During Super Rugby we had plenty of but remember you are playing a sport, He did his apprenticeship at Riverton personal development and it is only in so you have to enjoy it. Work hard and Plumbing and in those days you had to retrospect that you truly appreciate you will get results. You are in the best go to Wellington to attend the block the value of it, so I encourage the time of your life so make the most of courses. younger player to really listen up and it.” After he finished his apprenticeship not take it for granted. You may think he went back to rugby playing club in you are going to be there forever but Rutledge Trade Group 1999, got selected for the Southland you won’t be!” www.rutledge.co.nz Stags in 2000 and then made his Super He built his business up over five years Email: [email protected] Rugby debut for the Highlanders in and then had to put his business on Phone: 03 214 3338 “During Super Rugby we had plenty of personal development and it is only in retrospect that you truly appreciate the value of it, so I encourage the younger player to really listen up and not take it for granted. You may think you are going to be there forever but you won’t be!” JASON RUTLEDGE 80 // NZ RUGBY WORLD // DECEMBER 2015/JANUARY 2016 HORSING ANDREW FROGGATT AROUND HEY SAY NEVER WORK Q: HOW IS WORKING WITH A minutes then it gets to 10 but if WITH ANIMALS OR KIDS HORSE GOING TO MAKE A BETTER you set the boundaries and sort it BUT ANDREW FROGGATT PLAYER, COACH OR MANAGER? out straight away it stops. FROM THE LEAD THE WAY - A: It is not about the horses. We TCOMMUNICATION, RELATIONSHIP are using the horse as a teaching Q: WHAT IS THE MOST COMMON AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME tool to teach us more about FEEDBACK YOU GET? TOTALLY DISAGREES, BECAUSE ourselves. You gain huge doses A: People say they learn a lot about HE BELIEVES WE CAN LEARN SO of self-awareness, become more self-awareness and energy levels. MUCH ABOUT A PERSON THROUGH effective communicators and It is understanding how to change HORSES. retain what you have learned yourself and how to change other Often referred to as a Horse because of the unique nature of people. People often say to us they Whisperer, Andrew and his partner the experience. The lessons learnt have learnt so much more about Sam Glazebrook have expanded are unforgettable. You also learn themselves in two days than any their operation to offer a unique about your personal energy levels other course they have been on. leadership course out of their and how to use those to get the It is pretty simple - the horse don’t stunning base in Queenstown. It outcomes you desire and build give a stuff if you’re the coach of is proving to be very popular with better relationships. the All Blacks or whatever you are, people involved in sports and has they can only judge you by how already been done by Super Rugby they perceive you. People say it coaches, the High Performance is one of the most challenging and Sport NZ coach accelerate rewarding courses they have done. programme, rugby players and franchise Personal Development Q: WHY DID YOU START THE Managers, so we ask them a few COURSE? questions about their style of MARK RANBY A: One of my client’s Dad was ‘horsing around’. watching a session I was doing Q: WHAT DO PEOPLE GET OUT OF IT? with a difficult horse that I was Q: WHY HORSES? A: It increases self-awareness of training. He said this is what I am A: We use horses because they people. We video them and people’s trying to teach my staff and said I give us honest and immediate perception of how they think they should offer it as a course. So I did! feedback on our leadership style. are and how they actually are often They act as an emotional mirror of two entirely different things. Q: WHAT IS ONE BUSINESS TIP YOU what they see in us. So if we are The participants do ground base WOULD OFFER TO PEOPLE SETTING timid and shy, the horse mimics it work with the horse setting up UP A NEW BUSINESS? and if you are high on energy and boundaries and trust with the A: You have to have a point of aggressive, the horse is uptight and horse before they get the horse to difference, offer something that tense. So basically we are looking take part in a confidence course no one else is doing, be unique and to be calm, cruisy relaxed but with which requires good relationship work hard. a presence about us, so when we building techniques through non- say something, we mean it. verbal communications. Q: WHAT DOES THE COURSE Horses are great for anger People get huge rewards out of it INVOLVE? management and now prisons are because it gives them confidence. A: The beauty of the course is that also starting to use them. Horses Some people are quite anti it to it is nothing to do with physical are being used all around the world start with and then they become stature or fitness, it is about in all different environments. the biggest advocates. communication. We get people totally out of their comfort zone Q: WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT and challenge them in a way they THING PEOPLE LEARN? have never thought possible. A: We talk a lot about setting boundaries and concentrating on the basics, so we encourage people not to get ahead of themselves. Don’t just assume people know everything, take the time to set MARK RANBY, JUDY CLEMENT, the basics and ensure little things PETER SINCLAIR TIM WESTON are cemented first. Boundaries FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT FRANCHISE & SEVENS PERSONAL are important. If someone is late www.lead-the-way.co.nz DEVELOPMENT MANAGERS & to work or training, it might be 5 Follow us on Facebook SANJ SILVA NZCPA www.facebook.com/leadtheway DECEMBER 2015/JANUARY 2016// NZ RUGBY WORLD // 81 Here are some of our ITM Cup players in action in their personal development programmes where they gain off-field skills to help prepare for life after rugby and learn about different careers options.