Whether Will chooses to address people first individually or as a group I think is down to the individual, I'm sure managers do it in different ways.
Will might come in and might speak to certain members of the group, perhaps more senior players a little bit. I think that's a good starting point.
I remember when Gordon Strachan came in and he called myself, Jason Dodd and Matt Le Tissier, in to have some discussions and chats.
He just said. 'Look, you're the guys that have been here the longest,' and built a bit of connection and a relationship with us straight away.
The expectation was for us to be guardians of the dressing room, a voice in the dressing room and to get us on side with him first and foremost.
I think Gordon did that brilliantly. I probably played the least amount of football through my time at Saints under Gordon, and yet I still felt valued.
I wasn't playing as often as I wanted but I still felt I had a voice and a part to play, day to day on the training ground and also on a match day.
That can be a big skill. Man management is a key thing, managing individuals, especially players nowadays. On the whole, they are a different breed.
There will then be the collective team meetings where he's addressing the playing group and the staff, maybe even in the same meeting.
It's about laying down that footprint and his expectations, and I'm sure he will relay that and make those clear to the players right from the get-go.
Will Still pictured at Southampton's Staplewood training groundWill Still pictured at Southampton's Staplewood training ground (Image: Southampton FC/Matt Watson)
As a player, you'll be waiting to get that feel from the manager and how he wants to do things, as it is an uncertain time for everyone here.
There would have been players that played regularly under Russell Martin and Ivan Juric and it's another change again. It can be unsettling.
What it does do is sharpens everybody's focus, whether you're a player on the fringes or completely out in the cold or starting week in, week out.
It focuses everyone's efforts and attention on a new manager coming in, and I think it has come at the right time, during the close season.
It's an opportunity. The players would be silly not to be giving their best efforts because it's not going to help them at all otherwise, is it?
Even if you were one of those ones, someone that's been a bit upset in one way or another, a new manager coming in is like a clean slate.
Some may genuinely want to be away from the club and, to be fair, that could affect it, but I think that process will filter itself out naturally in the close season.
Thinking back, I sometimes found myself out of the frame a little bit when new managers signed, I wasn't always an automatic first choice.
Players might have been signed to replace me, I had to go back to square one on a number of occasions with the managers and put extra work in.
Ultimately I showed them why and convinced them that I should be in the team, but that was very much a reoccurring thing for me over the years.
I know that if I was a player within the dressing room as well now, there would be that personal side of it, but it would also be the collective.
We would be having conversations and there would have been a determination that when the new season does start, we owe a lot of people some wins.
We owe wins and we owe a reaction to what we gave and what we produced last season, so it's a huge season ahead in lots of different ways.
Speaking of managers, I saw the news about Russell Martin being appointed Rangers boss, and then I was told about Ivan Juric at Atalanta.
Look, all managers have their own ambitions just like players. I think the move for Russell is a very smart one, with respect to the Scottish game.
Going to a club like Rangers with a strong squad of players compared to a lot of the teams in the league, it will be good for his philosophy.
I wouldn't be surprised if things work well for him at that club. And with Ivan back in Italy as well a day later, football is bizarre sometimes, isn't it?
All of a sudden, their teams will be playing Champions League football this season. It's something else for us to follow and see how they get on.
Up the Saints,
Franny Benali.