Supporting Champions

Jenny Rogers: Coaching Episode 007

Show notes

Where it all started? Jenny’s teaching career and her ‘development itch!'

Where did it all start? The BBC & finding Delia Smith!

Where did the development of others start?

Becoming commissioning editor for The Open College, Jenny’s introduction to consulting and organisational behaviour

The beginnings of one to one work and executive coaching 20:00 Becoming a coach full-time and leaving the BBC

What is the coaching that Jenny provides?

“The slippery-ness of the human approach to change’

The power of coaching - examples

Jenny’s top tips for people new to coaching

This isn’t working - working in the moment and developing a different kind of conversation

Stepping outside of the conversation, navigating the difficult childhoods. Treading dangerous waters. Super-champions, high performing executives and their emotional lies 

Supporting sporting systems and what executive coaching can offer sport

Coaching sessions…holding a space, nudging, challenging and laughter

Support for coaches

Jenny’s writing compulsion

A Coaching Handbook - stay curious and stay self-aware

Top tips for writing 

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Supporting Champions Podcast 006 David Fletcher

In this episode I talk to David Fletcher about his career as a swimmer, researcher and expert in the area of adversity.

Show notes;

Early aspirations as a swimmer, but experiencing near misses as an athlete and academically

Transfer of desire from swim background to early success in studies

Father as a science role-model, searching and sharing academic papers

Importance of internship in sporting environment

Importance of breadth of experience beyond own area of specialism

Interest in the stresses that athletes experiences

Stresses changing based on growth of high performance system

Uncovering poor organisational behaviours that adversely influenced sporting performance

Seeking legal advice due to controversial nature of athlete interviews - sticking to your guns about unearthing and communicating stresses

Identifying stresses and how some used stressful experiences as fuel for determination

Organisational stresses - leadership styles, not being listened to, overuse of pressure training and how it spilled over

How it is unethical not to prepare athletes for the pressure of top competitions

How leadership behaviours permeated down to grass-root levels

Adversity as a stimulus for growth - so it needs to be; - Relevant, e.g. penalty shoot-out - Progressively adaptable - Agreed

Appropriate and inappropriate consequences to contravening agreed behaviours

Role of early adversity as a fuel for focusing on sporting goals

Theories emerging - life adversity coinciding with sporting success, and finding sport as a sanctuary

Caveat that sport doesn't protect person from mental health response to adversarial events

How best to support when people experience adversity; 1) give them space; 2) supporting people when they are ready to disclose - provide inspirational opportunities; 3) when a vase breaks consider creating a new mosaic rather than re-building as it was

Adversity gives you honesty to review deeply

Different personality traits required to succeed in sport vs life

Re-emergence of 'issues' wen sport is not there

Are we doing enough to support coaches?

Lessons for everybody - Anything worthwhile will have its challenges - Importance of anticipating stresses and preparing for them - Importance of support network - Importance of disclosing and being open to sharing stress response

Future directions in area of adversity

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005: Emilie Thienot on mindfulness

Go out there, meet people, do something!

Overtime if I want something I don’t give up because I know it will happen. If I work hard and smartly I will see results.

Back to the UK, the UK system and the British Sailing team.

The psychology of sailing, how do you support them? Freeing the mind to make good decisions.

Unlocking potential - removing psychological barriers.

Communication as a team - who do they want to be as a team, underpinning values and translating to behaviours. Trust and honesty at the foundation.

The skill of resetting and the ability to adapt in the moment.

Mindfulness - what is it? The ability to be aware of what is going on in the moment, in a non judgemental way.

What does mindfulness do? What's the performance advantage?

Accepting of negative thoughts and being able to notice the difficult feelings coming in, taking a helicopter view, diffuse and choose something else to refocus on, rather than fighting with the negative thoughts.

Step 1, Step 2 & Step 3 of mindfulness.

Benefits and results of mindfulness application.

The neuroscience behind mindfulness.

Daily integration and an earlier adoption creates a more robust, ingrained technique. Emilie’s work, unlocking potential in sports and business. Using tools from the elite athlete world and applying to the corporate world.

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004 Vern Gambetta on a career in coaching

Guru or legend?!

How Vern got into sport

Role models

Be a generalist not a specialist

It’s still the human body, what are the differences and similarities between the different sports?

Maintaining an open-mindedness. Don’t make assumptions!

Generations of young people with negligible physical literacy

Training sessions - how do we get more out of what we do?

How do you design somebody’s journey from youth to senior athlete?

Avoiding early specialisation - the conflict between art and science

We need to educate the coaches to be better managers the resources they have. 

Early specialisation and generalising - what’s required?

I am a student of history, continually asking where did this technique/coach come from? 3

Passionate about getting better at getting better

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Steve Ingham, Jamie Pringle, Rosie Mayes, discuss the rise of UK High Performance System that has gone from 36th on the medal table in 1996 Olympics to 2nd at the Rio Olympics in 2016, becoming a global sporting superpower. This episode discusses what are the common trends in successful high performing systems and looks forward as to how performance can be sustained.

What are the determining factors of a successful system?

What are the things from other performance environments you would find which are similar to the British system irrespective of context and culture?

Jamie plays devil’s advocate - if we had unlimited resources what would we do with that money?

Where might we want to see future investment for competitive advantage if we had unlimited resources?

If we travelled forward 100 years, what would we want to see long term residing in high performance sport system that is successful?

If we travelled back 100 years, to 1917, what would have astounded our contemporaries?

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Episode #2 Panel Discussion (Part 2 of 3)

Steve Ingham, Jamie Pringle, Rosie Mayes, discuss the rise of Uk High Performance System that has gone from 36th on the medal table in 1996 Olympics to 2nd at the Rio Olympics in 2016, becoming a global sporting superpower.

This episode charts the necessary focus that came with the award of the home games, what challenges it brought and how the roles change under mounting pressure and resource. Show notes 4:01 July 6th 2005 London was awarded the Olympic Games

Suddenly the bar has gone higher…we need more!

Know what your role is. The fundamental difference between sport science in the academic sense and thinking about the performer and their performance

The athletes don’t care who supplies the support, they want the support. The coach’s role is the distiller of language that the athlete can understand. 10:31 How has the education of the coaches developed and how has science been able to inform the coach?

The athlete centred, coach managed network. How do you explain what a scientist does within that role?

Coach education

One practitioner can become the filter through which the coach and the athlete can connect

For a coach the leadership challenge has changed

The leadership challenge for the coach is team management, clarity, cutting through the noise applying priority

Switching from a scientist role to coaching Kelly Sotherton - I need to cut down the noise, I’m a noise generator!

The dynamics of the team, relationships in the success of performers - creating champions 16:51 It’s a filtering process, I don’t want more I want less! No-one would ever teach me that story

It requires a whole host of different intelligences, intra-personal skills, inter-personal skills in order for your ideas to land

Ego, sectors that have bright people can come with an arrogance. Personality preferences, “Oh god I’m like that am I”?! If you have a team dynamic, if you can put your ego aside and have a role to play that isn’t your best position, that’s a real challenge

Complexity of a network and the ability to establish trust

Are we all playing the same tune?

When we have a clear sense of purpose about what we are doing. The professionalisation of the system in Britain we are part of a network that brings a sense of belonging for everyone.

London 2012, everyone was focussed on the summit. We always expect a lull after a big pie but…that could have been the best day at work EVER?!

Fear, threat, resistance. What is your purpose, asking why questions. To give pride to a nation.

To achieve this goal, where would you start?

Working for somebody, and it has consequence, it gives purpose and the purpose has consequence.

Why do you do what you do? This fundamental level of deep thinking isn’t taught, isn’t facilitates and when it is you get a united sense behind a common purpose.

If we start people thinking earlier, “Why do I do what I do?”, it will enhance what they do

Plugging gaps in order to create new progress/performance is a differentiator in the GB system

Recap

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Episode 001 Panel Discussion (Part 1 of 3)

Steve Ingham, Jamie Pringle, Rosie Mayes, discuss the rise of Uk High Performance System that has gone from 36th on the medal table in 1996 Olympics to 2nd at the Rio Olympics in 2016, becoming a global sporting superpower. This episode charts the early origins of the UK beginning to find pockets of excellence, how the system emerged from losing and grew to develop its own identity, method and network.

Show notes 

UK High performance achievements 

Where did it all start? 

Capturing nuggets from early achievers (Boardman/Keen)

Searching for early specialists

Creating and innovating from nothing

Protecting competitive advantage

Losing acting as an accelerator for funding and system change

Professional (funding allow athletes, coaches and staff to train/work full-time) but lacking focus

Support services in their infancy - the baby begins to develop

The baby learns to speak and say no for the first time

Into the next episode - the acceleration provided by being awarded the homes games

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