The coach as a 'performance architect' - a conversation with Mark Bennett OBE
The Talent Equation PodcastShow Notes
Mark Bennett makes a welcome return to the podcast. This time to help me out with some challenges that I have experienced during my last season of coaching.
How to establish an agreed set of performance behaviours with a group that is equally spilt between wanting to be recreational and wanting to be driven by performance goals. We also explore how you deal with people who are self deluded and think that they want to be performance driven but then behave like recreational athletes.
Mark shares a few new tools that he uses when supporting a group to be self reliant and self organising inclusing the 3As
I got a lot out of the discussion...I hope you do to...
BTW - Mark has launched a new online training space with loads of courses, videos and resources check it out at https://www.needcentred.com/
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