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Todays episode is on Great Team Work, and I am joined for the discussion by 2 great coaches.
The first is Lisa Alexander.
Lisa was the coach of the Australian Netball team, known as the Diamonds, from 2011 to 2020. During that time She oversaw gold medal successes at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and 2015 Netball World Cup, as well as silver medals at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and 2019 Netball World Cup.
And the second is John Kessel
John was the Team Leader for the 2000 USA Olympic Beach Volleyball Teams in Sydney, which brought home one gold medal, and for the 2004 USA Paralympic Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team in Athens, which came home with the bronze medal.
He is the author of over 12 books, including the IMPACT coaching manual, which is now in its 33rd edition. in 2024, he was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame and today travels around the world talking about coaching, particularly in the youth space.
Q: how do you describe great team work?
Q: How often do you catch people doing good; versus calling out areas for improvement?
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Jamilon Mulders is a German Field Hockey coach and former player for the National Team.
As a player, he was part of the team that won the World Cup in 2002. He then retired and transitioned into coaching. He progressed through youth teams, eventually leading national youth teams. He was then an assistant for Markus Weise when the German women won the Gold medal at the Champions trophy. He then started to cosch the German women, with whom he won bronze at the Rio Olympics 2016, before after five years, he went on to coach the Chinese women’s national team. After a break from coaching, he returned as interim Headcoach to the Dutch women's national team, with whom he won the World Cup in 2022, and became 2023 again a world champion as an assistant to the German men's team. A silver medal at the Paris Olympia with the German men was the last medal before transition to become a youth performance manager. He is presently the youth performance manager Dutch federation.
Q: What routines do you have in place to deliver tough messages?
Q: To what extent do you agree with the idea of being a servant to the group as the leader?
Q: Has there been times when you have been ‘blind-spotted’ by a goal?
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Today’s episode is on the topic of Thriving.
To help me I have invited 2 special guests.
The first is Dr. Gavin. Gavin is a Doctor of Psychology and Associate Fellow at Oxford Sayyid Business School. We have had Gavin on previously to discuss Energy and Purpose.
The second is Valorie Kondos Field.
Valorie, or Miss Val as she is known, was the head of coach of the UCLA gymnastics team from 1991 to 2019, leading the team to seven national and 18 Pac 12 Championships.
She was voted NCAA Coach of the Year four times by her peers and in 2016 was voted the Coach of the Century by the PAC12 Conference.
Her Ted Talk, titled Why winning doesn’t always equal success, has been viewed over 4 million times, and she recently released a best selling book called Life is Short, Don't Wait to Dance
Q: How does your organization experience thriving? What can you do to facilitate this?
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Our Great Coach on this episode is Ron Adams.
Ron is a basketball coach who started his career as an Assistant with Fresno Pacific College back in 1969. He then honed his craft across multiple Universities and in Belgium before moving in to the NBA in 1992. In the 32 years since then he has worked at San Antonio, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Chicago, Oklahoma City, Boston and now Golden State. His teams have reached the the postseason 17 times, including four Finals and three championships in his time with Golden State.
Q: What role does Joy play in your organisation?
Q: What support do you have to help you discern well?
Q: To what extent does fealty exist in your team?
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Our great coach on this episode is Shane Jurgensen.
Shane is a former cricketer who played for Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania and Horsham, Sussex in the UK. He started coaching while still an athlete in his early 20s, eventually becoming the bowling coach for New Zealand in 2008. From there, he had successful roles in high-performance coaching with New Zealand cricket and led the national teams of Bangladesh, Scotland, and Fiji. He then had a second stint with New Zealand as the Bowling coach and Head Coach and was part of the team that won the inaugural World Test Championship in 2019. Then in 2023, he led the Wellington Firebirds to the Plunket shield in New Zealand.
Key Questions:
· What routines do you use to open team meetings? How they can be used to deepen seflessness within the group?
· What is the level of dispersed leadership across your team?
· How are your development plans spread across improving base capabilities versus growing new ones?
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Our great coach on this episode is Scott Roth.
Scott is a former basketball player who played 160 NBA games with the Utah Jazz, San Antonio Spurs and Minnesota Timberwolves. His playing career also took him to Spain, Turkey and Greece. As a coach, he has led teams in Spain, the he Dominican Republic and the the NBA G-League as well as being an assistant coach of the Chinese and Turkish national teams. He was also an Assistant with the the Mavericks, Golden State, Piustons and Raptors, and with the Perth Wildcats in Australia.
In 2021, he was appointed Head Coach of the NBA’s expansion Team, the Tasmanian Jack Jumpers. He led them to a Grand Final in his first year and the Championship in his third.
Some of the ther highlights for me included:
Scott’s view that allowing the outside influence of social media into your mind can stop you from being vulnerable enough to dare greatly.
Question: How do you manage the outside influences that can, in Scotts words “drag dirty feet through your mind?”
How he uses vulnerability to illustrate the role that care plays in his leadership style, and how he uses this to coach hard and challenge people.
Question: How do you find the balance between telling people the truth, but also exhibiting care?
The fascinating story of how he taught his new players and club what it meant to be Tasmanian by sending them to work on an Apple Orchard. And the bloodlines group he set up of people that have shaped Tasmanian Basketball, to help the team stay connected to its heritage.
Question: What routines do you use to connect your team to the identity that shaped it?
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The way Scott talks about his evolution as a leder, from
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Chantal Vallée completed her masters thesis on Coaching leadership. She then set about putting her knowledge into action by taking over one of the worst basketball programs at a Canadian Univisty, the University of Windsor lancers. Over 6 gruelling years she took the team from, in her words, worst to first; ultimately winning five consuective Canadian National Championships. She has captured her learnings from that journey in her new book Dare to Win.
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Our great coach on this episode is Gilbert Enoka.
Gilbert is a mental skills coach who has worked with some of the world's great teams, including Chelsea FC, The English Cricket Team, The New Zealand cricket team, The Silver Ferns - the New Zealand Netball team, the Canterbury Crusaders Rugby Team and most notably the New Zealand Rugby Team , known internally as the All Blacks, for 23 years. On that journey he has been with the team for over 300 matches while they have won back-to-back Rugby World Cups, 21 consecutive Bledisloe Cups, three Grand Slams, eight Tri Nations and Nine Rugby Championships.
He has just captured his learning and insights from this career in a book called Become Unstoppable.
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Our guest on this episode is Professor Adam R Nicholls.
Adam is based in the Department of Sport, Health, and Exercise Science at the University of Hull, UK. His primary research is related to stress, appraisal, and coping among athletes.
He has published 3 books and more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles. His research has brought him into contact with elite-level Rugby Union, Rugby League players, as well as golfers who have won majors, where he has “learned a great deal about what it takes to perform under pressure.”
He also posts terrific content on LinkedIn which is where the Great Coach John Buchanan first brought Adam to my attention.
Much of our discussion today is based on his latest book: Psychology in Sports Coaching: Theory and Practice. Which I highly recommend.
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Our Great Coach on this episode is Colm Nally.
Colm is a Gaelic Football coach from Ireland. He has coached at the youth and adult levels, from club teams to the top level in Ireland with his County.
His teams have won promotion into division one, won numerous inter-mediate titles and competed in provincial All Ireland finals.
He is also a designated GAA Master Cocach Tutor, the author of three books on Gaelic Football training, and the owner of a YouTube channel that offers Gaelic Football Coaching tips and has been viewed more than one million times.
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Our Great Coach on this episode is Kathy Delaney-Smith.
Kathy led the Harvard Womens Basketball team for 40 years. During her tenure she led the team to over 600 career wins, 11 Ivy League championships and six NCAA Tournament berths. She is the winningest coach in the history of the Ivy League — any sport, men’s or women’s.
Kathy has just written a booked called Grit and Wit: Empowering Lives and Leaders. The book is co-authored with one of her players, Laura Barnard who is now a sought after leadership consultant.
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Tom Maher is an Australian Basketball coach. He started his career leading the Nunawading spectres ultimately taking them to 5 championships in the Women’s National Basketball League. He would go to win titles with Perth, Canberra and Bulleen making him the most successful coach in the league’s history.
He has also led the Australian National team to their first ever Olympic medal, a bronze at the 1996 Olympics and then silver at the 2000 Games. He has also coached the national teams of New Zealand, China and Great Britain. In all he coached at 6 consecutive Olympic Games. He was also the first ever foreign coach in the WNBA and was inducted in the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2021.
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Berhard Peters is a field Hockey Coach who started coaching youth teams in the early 1980’s. His career slowly built and he led German National Youth teams to European Chamionships. Then in 200 he took over the German National Mens side and led them to World Champinshiops in in 2002 and 2006.
He then transitioned into off field leadership roles in soccer, starting with Hoffenheim in the third tier of German soccer. He was part of the transformation of that club which took them all the way to the top German league in 2008.
He hads gone on to build a successful career helping clubs transform themselves into high performing organisations, most recently with the start up club St Louis FC in the American Major League.
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Today’s episode is focuses on the topic of Winning Team Cultures, and to explore the topic I am joined by 2 great coaches.
The first is Mike Dunlap. Mike is a basketball coach who has led teams in US Colleges, the NBA and in Australia. He started as a College Assistant in 1980 before becoming the Head Coach of Cal Lutheran in 1989. In 1994 he moved to Australia and led the Adelaide 36ers in the |National League before returning to the USA in 1997 to lead Metro State. That team went on to win National Championships in 2000 and 2002.
In 2006, he went to the NBA for the first time as an Assistant at Denver, and then in 2011, he was chosen by Michal Jordan to lead the Charlotte Bobcats in the NBA.
Then in 2020, Mike returned to the NBA as an Assistant Coach with Milwaukee Bucks and was with them then they defeated the Phoenix Suns to win their first NBA Championship in 2021.
And my 2nd guest is Gareth Taylor.
Gareth played as a professional football player for 18 seasons. He retired in 2011 and started coaching youth teams at Manchester City. After 8 years in the City Academy, he was appointed Head Coach of the Women’s team and led them to a FA Cup title in 2020 and the League Cup title in 2022.
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Stacey Marinkovich is a Netball coach.
She played in the Australian National league for the Queensland Firebirds, Perth Orioles and Westcoacg Fever before retirning in 2009. She transitioned as an Assistant for the legendary Norma Plummer in 2012. In 2014 she was appointed head coach of the Westcoast Fever, guiding them to their ever grand final. In 2020 she was appointed as the head coach of the Australian National Team and led them to a gold medal at the 2022 Commenwealth Games and the 2023 Netball World Cup.
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This episode is something a little different.
I am joined by Dr David Turner, who is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Coaching Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge in the United Kingdom and some of his students and a fellow teacher. David takes the lead in this episode and we share learning we have all taken from Great Coaches as well as how some the students intend to apply what they have learned in the world. The tables were turned at times as the students and David asked me questions as well; something which I found enjoyable but also quite challenging!
A special thanks to Wleed Mazhar, Kye Buckle, Becky Marshall, Beth Parsons and Eloise Pemberton for taking part.
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Our great coach on this episode is Tara Ann VanDerveer.
Tara is a retired American basketball coach who led the Stanford Womends bascketball team for 38 years. In that time she led the Cardinals to NCAA championships in 1990, 1992 and 2021 and 13 final fours. In 1996 she also led the US national team to the gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics. In january 2024 she surpassed both Path Summit and Mike Mike Krzyzewski as the winningest coach in college basketball history. Eventually retiring with a record of 1218 wins at a ratiopn of 81.8%.
Tara was voted the Naismith National coach of the year on 3 occaasions and the Pac 12 coach of the teas on 18 occasions. She was unducted into the Womens Basketball Hall of fame in 2002.
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Ken Niumatalolo is an American College Football coach.
Ken played college football as a quarterback at the University of Hawaii. After graduating he became an assistant at his alma mater , eventually becoming an offensive coordinator at the Naval Academy in 1995. His career progressed and he eventually became the Head Coach of Navy in 2007 and would lead them for 15 years, accumulating the most wins of any coach in the programs history. Along the way, he won 6 Commander-in-Chief trophies, 4 bowl game trophies and 3 AAC West Division titles.
In 2023 he left Navy and spent a season as the Director of Leadership at UCLA, and then in 2024 took on the head coach role at San Jose State.
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Today’s episode is focuses on NBA Championship wining coach Joe Mazzulla. I am joined for the discussion by Dr. David Turner who has been on the podcast many times before and is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Coaching at ARU in Cambridge in the UK. Joe Mazzulla is the latest subject in his learning from legendary coaches series.
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Our Great Coach on this episode is John Kessel.
As a volleyball player, John participated in 16 U.S. Open Championships and played professionally in Europe.
He started coaching at the Collegiate level in the USA in 1970 and led teams to National titles in 1986 and 1987. He was the Team Leader for the 2000 USA Olympic Beach Volleyball Teams in Sydney, which brought home one gold medal, and for the 2004 USA Paralympic Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team in Athens, which came home with the bronze medal.
He has had the most profound impact on the game, though, as a coach and administrator. He worked for over 30 years at Volleyball USA and 20+ years at World ParaVolley.
He is the author of over 12 books, including the IMPACT coaching manual, which is now in its 33rd edition. In 2007, the Institute for International Sport named him a Sport Ethics Fellow, and in 2024, he was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame.
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John consults with other Olympic Sports, well over 20 in fact, and travels around the world talking about coaching, particularly in the youth space.Our Great Coach on this episode is John Kessel.
As a volleyball player, John participated in 16 U.S. Open Championships and played professionally in Europe.
He started coaching at the Collegiate level in the USA in 1970 and led teams to National titles in 1986 and 1987. He was the Team Leader for the 2000 USA Olympic Beach Volleyball Teams in Sydney, which brought home one gold medal, and for the 2004 USA Paralympic Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team in Athens, which came home with the bronze medal.
He has had the most profound impact on the game, though, as a coach and administrator. He worked for over 30 years at Volleyball USA and 20+ years at World ParaVolley.
He is the author of over 12 books, including the IMPACT coaching manual, which is now in its 33rd edition. In 2007, the Institute for International Sport named him a Sport Ethics Fellow, and in 2024, he was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame.
John consults with other Olympic Sports, well over 20 in fact, and travels around the world talking about coaching, particularly in the youth space.
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