Supporting Champions

Psychologist, Pete Lindsay presents at the 2017 Supporting Champions Conference discussing his work with Mark Bawden at Mindflick who have developed a tool for improving performance by understanding one’s performance preferences.

0:25 The importance of understanding personality preferences in order for us to perform to our optimum

2:10 None of us are perfect!

2:26 Timing, finding the right time to deliver the right intervention in the right way

3:38 Gathering resources so that you can focus on the impactful intervention

4:53 Character comes before competence

5:27 When interviewing, we ask, “Are the candidates passionate, hungry, humble do they want to learn, are they socially smart?”

6:49 To be successful you need to be contextually sensitivity

7:56 Know me, know method, know foibles

8:34 Two lenses, two metrics of personality profiles. How do you make your decisions and where do you get your energy from?

9:30 FLEXing your style, how to effectively work with others

9:59 People change across contexts, the extent of the power of context is 70:30

10:17 Personality can change with volitional effort

14:15 We all have blindspots, when played in the wrong context they can be a weakness

15:14 How do teams perform well in volatile environments?

16:33 Building psychological safety

17:42 The importance of influencing other practitioners, influencing with integrity

19:15 Differences allow us to be more agile and flex our style

19:51 Pig Wrestling - pigs are problems, never wrestle with a problem!

20:38 Tackling the wrong problem

21:11 Premature evaluation problem! That one intervention is vital, so take the time to clean up the problem before launching the intervention.

Physiologist and coach Dr Barry Fudge presents at the Supporting Champions Conference 2017 on his working leading endurance running in the UK, in particular his work with Sir Mo Farah

Apologies that the sound isn't the best from the presentation, but we think it's worth sharing!

Show Notes

1:30 Overview: Background leadership in UKA; Project Mo; key reflections; summary

3:52 Performance funnels and understanding performance pathways, medals, finalists placing points

6:50 Own the start line: Imagine yourself on the start line now ask ‘What are the things you are going to have to do to believe you are gong to win?’

10:00 Nature X Nurture. David Coyle. Mo Farah’s twin brother example

13:35 ‘Don’t make this shit up’ - make sure your data and informations really good.

14:30 Importance of relationships to determine important performance questions and taking a leap of faith

18:15 Project Mo - example of planning methods - back to 2009 Mo Farah compared to Kenenisa Bekele. Running times.

19:10 ADAPT model

A for Ambition - what do you want to do?

D for Determinants - what does it take?

A for Assess - where are you now using quality/rigorous data?

P for Prioritise - where are you going to put your effort?

T for Tasks - who is in the team? who is responsible for which task?

24:27 Example of ADAPT for Mo Farah

31:20 Mo’s running times when he produced his peak performance in 2015; last mile in 3:55; last km in 2:19; last 800m in 1:48; final 400m in 52:6

34:00 Don’t be in this for the money. Anything can happen (e.g. Mo falling in Rio final). Know what you are there to do.

36:30 -It’s not about you

-Unite as a team

-Talent, mindset, environment

-Understand what you are trying to do

-Remember why you are there

-Have fun - it can be a bit serious sometimes

Nutritionist, Emma Gardner presents at the 2017 Supporting Champions Conference on the what it takes to be successful working in teams

Show Notes

0:45 Honest account of what it takes to be successful, working in teams

2:03 Importance of focusing on skills needed to make impact

4:00 First contact with the senior man’s teams. The crunch moment of being singled out.

7:10 Ultimately, I wanted to see if you were right for us

8:00 Starting work with with GB Hockey with camping

10:00 -Its not like the text books tell you

-You’ve got to establish the ground fit with he teams

-Blend into the culture

11:30 Performance backwards

13:30 Working on vision/values/behaviours

16:00 Holding athletes accountability by appealing to vision, values and behaviours

18:50 Influencing change by establishing purpose - body composition/power example

22:00 Importance of using team to ensure consistency of message

24:00 Don’t do things for the sake of it, use environment to influence

25:00 Sweat patch example - get your priorities straight. Ask the athletes

28:00 Use of infographics to influence behaviour in the environment

36:30 Presence with athletes at key moments. Establishing relationships, rapport to find a way to work with people

33:00 Different types of athletes

34:00 Truly listen