A conversation with my mentor - Mark Bennett MBE

Mark Bennett is someone that has had the most profound effect on my coaching, my parenting, my management style and my life.

Mark is an expert people developer and has worked with people from all walks of life from elite sports coaches to teachers working in primary schools.

His approach was forged in the British military where he was a physical training instructor but it has now been used to help people in all walks of life to follow a path of excellence. It is extremely powerful and I was really keen to make sure that he shares some of his insights with the Talent Equation community.

In this great discussion we cover:

• The difference between 'performance' coaching and 'leisure' coaching

• How to decide whether you are on a journey of performance and improvement or on a journey of self delusion

• How Mark tries to make himself redundant by ensuring that coaches and athletes make good behaviour choices whether he is there or not

• Using 'covert tests' to help you ensure that learning has taken place

• Why most coaches need to take 70% of the content out of their session plans

• How to ensure that athletes make a commitment to the goals that they establish for themselves

This is an episode that you won't want to miss.

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Podcast: Building great relationships - The secret to the development of the 'Gifted Junior'

Stuart Morgan from www.stuartmorgangolf.com was the Director of Instruction at the International Junior Golf Academy in the USA. Stuart has spent his life helping young golfers to develop and has a wealth of knowledge to share with the talent community.

We focus on the experiences he went through with developing a young female golfer called Emily Price and her journey of success towards several amateur titles and the way that the engagement with the family is all important. In the episode we cover:

• How Stuart works with young players on the course and in context as much as possible. Designing challenges and using constraints to challenge their skill set.

• How the relationship with the parents is all important but the relationship is built in having clearly defined roles.

• How a delayed specialisation model was used in Emily's development. How keeping her away from the formal 'talent pathway' until the right moment played an important role in her development.

• Creating an ecological environment around her in order to develop resilience and the characteristics required for excellence.

• How Stuart still provided coaching even though he was on the other side of the Atlantic.

• How Stuart's book 'Gifted Junior' can help parents and coaches to navigate this process.

Enjoy the episode

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Podcast - Coach Like a Champion with Master Educator, Doug Lemov

Doug Lemov has dedicated his life to helping young people to strive for the exceptional. His work within Uncommon Schools has helped some of the most disadvantaged young people to achieve things within their lives that few thought would be possible.

He understands a thing or two about unleashing potential!

His quest to help students succeed led him to discover that the major factor in helping young people was high quality teaching. He set about to find out what set apart the best teachers from the rest and decided to record the methods that these teachers adopted to share with others. The book 'Teach like a Champion' was born.

Doug has gone onto write several other books including 'Practice Perfect' which is a fantastic source of insight for anyone wanting to help other learn.

Both of the books are available to download by clicking the links above. These are affiliate links and by buying the books through these links Amazon pays me a small commission so you will be helping to support the running costs of the site and will earn my eternal gratitude!

In this episode we discuss: - How to use questioning really, really well. - How to avoid question fatigue - Why most teacher and coach CPD doesnt work - Why teacher training leaves teachers without the necessary skills to be excellent teachers - The ingredients of a high quality talent environment like Uncommon Schools

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