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Sport is a commodities market and the #1 commodity in sport is Talent!

Its like the Wild West, Guns for Hire and its BIG BUSINESS.

You’ve probably hears all about it: The Largest Deal In Professional Sport History.

Juan Soto, $765 Million over 15 years. With signing bonus and incentives, he will earn close to $840,000,000 by the time its all done.

Soto is obviously a HOT commodity but how do you value Talent?

It’s a numbers game. A players performance numbers compared to all other players, it’s a market value system.

Its Cut and Dry, Black and White and it is Absolutely Unforgiving.

Either you have the numbers, or you do not.

However, what do you do as a young player with a dream of playing in the big leagues?

Or as a parent of an athlete who has that dream?

Or as a coach of a driven passionate kid who loves sport.

My best advice, for what its worth, is to get an understanding of the long game that is athlete development and read up on Talent.

This can really help you guide your athlete through the process and at the same time give you some great knowledge that you can use to make informed decisions.

That is exactly what we are going to do on this week’s episode of Krush Performance as we sum up all of our work looking into Talent and Talent ID.

Soto’s contract with bonuses and clauses can add up to more than $840 million over the15 years – he’ll be 41.

Its Great Work if you can get it and there is nothing like the thrill of the chase when you are creating coachable players.

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One of the most important questions in sport today,

What to do over your off season?

The off season for me is one of the most important periods in an athlete’s annual plan.

This is where you train the athlete to be a more coachable player.

Annual Planning, it’s a cycle of Athlete & Player management that can be broken down into 4 phases:

· Off season

· Pre-Season

· In-Season

· Post-Season

Remember all programmed work MUST be built around our #1 Priority for program planning, Rest & Recovery.

And when it comes to an athlete’s daily performance, Sleep Rules all!!!!

When you are planning an athlete’s workload & recovery there are 4 factors you need to consider:

· Volume – the how much

· Intensity – the how hard

· Frequency – the how often

· Movement Efficiency – the how much stress/damage

Bottom line, take advantage of any downtime you can get!

As you head into your off-season ask yourself What is the benefit to year-round sport?

It takes time to master a sport and there are no truer words than MORE IS NOT BETTER when you’re Creating Coachable Players

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Today, you can probably pick out the organizations with great cultures with great accuracy:

Kansas City Chiefs – The LA Dodgers – Vegas Knights -Celtics

Or Top Schools: Stanford, Penn State, University of California

Storied football Franchises: Liverpool, Barcelona FC Real Madrid, Chelea

They all have a Culture of Winning / Winning Cultures.

Coming off of last weeks show with Kevin Tyler, President of Altis the conversation with our listeners surprised me.

It was more about the environment and culture that Kevin and Altis has created and not so much the details that make up a performance program.

The talk was about the big picture of when an athlete or coach step into an environment like this – only good things can happen, and I really thought this takeaway was interesting.

There is no question, the idea of “culture” has been a focus in sport for a long, long time.

On this week’s Episode of Krush Performance we go back into our 2022 Theme: Organizational and Team Performance with my conversation with Joan Ryan, acclaimed journalist and author of 5 books, including “Intangibles: Unlocking the Science and Soul of Team Chemistry.”

Get set as we work to crack the code on organizational and team performance and the elusive concept of “Team Culture” is a perfect place to start.

“Culture Trumps Strategy Every Time.” Harvard Business Review

The Environment and Culture you create for your players is one of the most important things you can do when you are Creating Coachable Players.

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Every athlete experiences doubt at some point.

· Doubt about whether they are playing as well as they could be playing or

· Whether they are progressing as fast as they feel they should be or

· Whether they are going to be good enough to achieve their goals and objectives.

The Good News – if you are or have experienced doubt you are not alone.

Even Better News – you can make doubt work to your advantage if you fame it up correctly.

Doubt is a natural part of the athlete and player development process and if you can learn to embrace it, it can be a very helpful tool.

Doubt can be an indicator that it might be time to take a step back and evaluate where you are at, what you have been doing and how you have been planning in relation to your goals and objectives.

In the process of athlete and player development we spend the majority of an athlete’s lifespan preparing for a few years of elite – top performance.

Years and years building the foundation that will eventually support performance outcomes at the highest levels of performance.

Unfortunately, most athletes, coaches, parents underestimate the demands at the highest levels of sport. And in turn, do not fully appreciate the importance of the building phases of development that must happen to support elite performance.

This week on Krush Performance we discuss that process and the importance of coaching development as we breakdown the lifespan of an athlete and everything that goes into creating top performance with Kevin Tyler, President of Altis.

There are no shortcuts in the process of Creating Coachable Players.

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A Look at Elite & Professional Sport

If you are working to compete at a higher level it is Critical that you understand what that higher level of competition looks like.

You Have to Know What it Looks Like!

This means much more than just watching a game on TV or attending a game or live event.

No, if you really want to know what the higher levels of performance look like – and you NEED TO know – you must understand the demands at that next level.

· The physical, mental and emotional demands.

· The travel, the schedule the time demands.

· The competitive demands – the incredible Skill & Talent level of elite/pro athletes.

· You also need to understand the Business side and the Ebb and Flow of elite sport.

It’s just like my analogy of planning a trip – you need to know the weather, terrain, food and social landscape of where you are going so you can prepare properly.

This week on Krush Performance we put Elite & Pro Sport into context in a roundtable discussion with three Krush Favorites from my TSN Sport Radio days: Craig Moonen (Former Krush Co-Host), and Sportscasters Corey Graham and Marc Majeau.

Join in as I ask the guys their thoughts & opinions on:

· The MLB World Series

· Best Players in Baseball – Payroll parody in MLB

· The Toughest Championship to win

· The Toughest Schedule in Sport

· The Toughest Sport Period

· The Best athletes in SPORT: Past Present

· The Best Athlete EVER

Having a clear idea of what elite sport looks like is a critical part of the journey when you are Creating Coachable Players.

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This week on Krush Performance an incredible journey of perseverance, survival, teamwork and problem solving all while performing at the highest levels of Sport and Business.

The Outcome: An Incredible Program that I personally believe will change how we work with, support and develop athletes.

In a truly inspirational story we talk with Jason Campeau, CEO of Elite Athlete Services, a program designed to help armature and professional athletes with all of their cognitive, mental and performance needs.

Today I will ask you to step into the lead roll and imagine yourself as a young hockey player leaving home to step into the turbulent and uncertain world of professional hockey.

Then with injuries and concussions forcing you out of sport, you step into the Tech Industry where you help build a great company.

The comes a big buyout and this allows you to step back into the world of sport this time however your teammates won’t be 20 or so other hockey players.

No, this time your team will be made up of 16 of the most loyal and dedicated teammates you could ever imagine.

Teammates that will take you thousands of miles across the arctic in one of the most brutal, difficult and challenging races on earth not just once or twice but 5 times.

On the fourth race, these teammates will save your life after a terrible fall helping you survive just long enough through a brutal blizzard and – 55 /-60-degree temperatures.

Just Long enough for some special people could safely arrive with an Blackhawk Helicopter to get you back to safety – a safety that would turn out to be a new kind of nightmare. The kind of nightmare that can come with a major brain injury/ concussion.

This is a story of dreams and goals, survival and perseverance that all come together in a new cutting-edge program that will change Sport Performance / Human Performance for all time.

I am so glad you are joining me here today and I’m very proud to share Jason’s incredible story on this week’s episode of Krush Performance: “From the Rink to the Boardroom: It’s Okay Not to Be Okay”.

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What Does it Take to be Great

This week on Krush Performance we are going to take a good hard look at talent, the development of talent and ultimately what it really takes to get better at something.

It’s a massive discussion with multiple layers and many areas of grey so lets review what we know about talent and talent development so you can informed decisions and move forward with purpose.

Let me start with a question: Is Talent Overrated?

Does talent come first?

Does there need to be recognizable Talent – whatever that is – in order to have the chance to go on to success?

Are we born with Talent?

Or is Talent something that we develop?

There are so many questions revolving around talent – and one of the most important just might be – what exactly is talent in the first place?

This week we go to one of the very important early discussions that kick started the Krush our look into Talent and Talent Development with Krush Favorite: Geoff Colvin, Award-winning journalist for Fortune & CBS Radio, Bestselling author & renown speaker as we discussed his research and best-selling book and Krush MUST READ: “Talent is Overrated: What really separates World Class Performers from Everyone Else.

If you are working to get better at something or if you are a coach, teachers, boss or manager or even a parent of people with goals and objectives this could be one of the most important discussions you could hear when you are Creating Coachable Players.

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How Athletes are the Sum of Their Experiences

You are a product of your Environment.

Your athletes & players are products of their environments.

So, what do we need to do to create a performance environment?

Provide Meaningful Experiences!

In essence you are the sum of your experiences.

You are also the sum of how you interpret, learn from and respond to each experience you have small or large.

This week on Krush Performance I share a great experience I had with three Krush listeners – it was a great 30-minute conversation in the lobby of a restaurant.

It was this conversation that set the tone for this weeks show and our trip back to one of the great Krush Conversations with David Epstein, author of the “Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance”.

Its a great look back as we move forward into the world of Perception and creating performance environments for our athletes, teams and organizations.

Creating performance environments rich with experiences designed to enhance learning and adaptation at any level of sport is a integral part of raising your players potential when you are Creating Coachable Players.

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What we can learn from Cirque du Soleil

How do you survive 400+ performances a year?

400 elite, exacting, sometime dangerous, mindboggling performances a year!

How do you not only survive 400+ performances a year but maintain or even improve performance all while staying injury free???

Well, Teamwork, Culture and a Hyper Focus on the Performers themselves.

This week on Krush Performance we talk with, Andre Lachance, Senior Director of Casting & Artist Contract Management.

We often say if you want to learn what you should be doing – look to the pros.

Well, there may be no higher level of performance to be found than what you’ll find inside the world of Cirque du Soleil.

We talk with Andre about the approach, the systems and the culture that has made this company and their performers one of the very best in everything they do.

Creativity, Mastery and Confidence by Design:

Confidence, Competencies & Motivation.

We discuss these key performance factors and much more as we dig in to the world of Cirque du Soleil to better understand how to Create More Coachable Players.

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What is happening in sports today?

Incredible stuff that’s what.

Have you ever wondered where great athletes come from or how they actually happen?

What did they do that allowed them to go on to achieve greatness in sport?

Coaches, Researchers, Scouts and GM’s have been trying to answer this question ever since competitive sport began.

This week on Krush Performance we’ll look at some of the top athletes competing in sport right now.

Question, could we be witnessing one of the best athletes EVER?

Also, I’ll share one of the most powerful tools we use in helping our athletes achieve.

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