England's Eddie Jones changed his coaching style after watching Pep Guardiola

England rugby coach Eddie Jones says watching Pep Guardiola in action changed the way he approaches his job.

Jones spent time with Guardiola when the latter was still in charge at Bayern Munich and admitted to being "embarrassed" by his own methods after seeing Arjen Robben & Co. pushed to their limits on a freezing morning.

The 57-year-old has recently masterminded Japan's stunning World Cup win over South Africa in 2015 but still admits he came away with a changed perspective.

"It changed the way I coach," said Jones at the Soccerex Global Convention in Manchester. "I came out of that session embarrassed about how I had been coaching.

"When I was a young coach I used to coach pretty hard and I probably got criticised a bit for it. But I went and watched Pep's session. He was coaching some of the best players in the world and it was minus five. It was freezing.

"They did quite a traditional warm-up and I thought, 'Maybe I'm not going to learn anything today'. But then they had 21 players and they were in three teams of seven, working on getting into space.

"Pep was out there running the session and speaking in four or five different languages telling guys like Robben what to do.

"It was just really enlightening how hard they worked in that 20 minutes and how he was embedding his philosophy on that team and how the players had bought into it.

"I remember them coming off and they had sweat pouring off them. I have watched many football teams train and they were down here and he was up there.

"It definitely changed the way that I coach. I work the players a lot harder now."