The Great Coaches: Leadership & Life

For today’s podcast we have caught up with Australian cricket coach John Buchanan to get his views on the first 2 of the Ashes Tests.If you would like to learn more, visit our website: https://thegreatcoachespodcast.com/ where we have exclusive content that can be searched by sport, coach or topic area, for example culture, communication or mental skills. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sign up to our newsletter by clicking here or from our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com⁠. This episode focuses on how Coaches refresh their message by using the Voice of other people.It also introduces our new Insight Database where you can find thousands of video insights from The Great Coaches on topics like Culture, Communication and Conflict that can be filtered by, key word, sport or coach and then downloaded and shared.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today’s episode is on the topic of Championship Habits, and we are joined for the discussion by Allister McCaw, who has just written a terrific new book called Habits that Make a Champion.Allister is that rare person who excels across disciplines and industries. In addition to being an author who has sold over 300,000 books, his podcast ranks in the top 1% in the world, and for the last 25 years he has also consulted and worked with Olympic Gold Medalists, Grand Slam Champions, Fortune 500 companies, NCAA Colleges, and Professional sports teams. And you will hear him mention some of the these in this terrific interview.Allister's book can be found here: Habits that Make a Champion.And his twitter feed: Allistair McCawIf you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today’s episode is focuses on the topic of Legacy.We are joined for the conversation by James Kerr the author of the book, Legacy: What the All Blacks Can Teach Us About the Business of Life. James’ book is one of the most referenced by our interview guests, it has over 4000 5 star review on Amazon UK alone. He is a consultant to some of the world’s top sporting and business organisations. And in this interview, he takes us inside his work with these groups and how they go about unlocking high performance.Some of his ideas that resonated deeply with us were:His belief that people will rise to a challenge if it's their challenge, and the quite amazing story he shares to illustrate this about Leicester winning the FA cup in England.His view that the story you tell yourself becomes the story that others end up telling about you. And how you can use to set up a team culture.And How the culture at the All Blacks New Zealand Rugby team is about stabbing people in the belly not the back.This is the type of fireside chat that stays with you for a long, long time afterwards.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Great Coach on this episode is Andrea Anastasi.Andrea played volleyball for Italy 141 times, and was part of the team that won the 1990 World Championship. He transitioned in to coaching in 1994, and in 1999 led the Italian team to gold medals at 2 European Championships, the World League, as well as a Bronze at the 2000 Olympics. In 2007 he took over the Spanish National team and famously led them to the 2007 European Championship. He then moved on to coach the Polish national team and in 2011 led the team to their first ever medal in the World League.He has also coached teams to National Championships in Italy and Poland, and is presently the head coach of the Belgian National Team. Andrea is a coach with a global perspective and as you will hear in this interview speaks multiple languages that allows him to communicate with his very international teams. What I found most interesting, and unique, in this interview was the process Andrea goes through when he joins a new team in a new country.I think anyone who is moving in to a new culture in either a team or new company will find this interesting and helpful. I also enjoyed the way Andrea talks about using body language to communicate across cultures and again I think this applicable for anyone who is communicating across age or demographic groups. And finally, the importance he places on listening when it comes to effective leadership.Andrea was both a champion player and coach, and this combined with his empathetic style made for a terrific interview.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Great Coach on this episode is Cheryl Reeve.Cheryl is a Basketball head coach and general manager for the Minnesota Lynx of the WNBA.She has led the team to championships in 2011,2013, 2015 and 2017. She is one of only 2 coaches in the WNBA history to have a winning % over 60 in regular season games. In addition she has the highest winning % of any coach in the WNBA postseason.She has also been an Assistant coach for Team USA at the 2016 and 2021 Olympic Games helping them to Gold Medals, and in 2022 was appointed Head Coach of the team that then went on to win the World Championship.This was a terrific conversation, although a little short as Cheryl was pressed for time, and I hope you enjoy it as much as we did.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today’s episode is on the topic of Championship Behaviours, and we are joined for the discussion with one our past guests the Great Coach Hugh McCutcheon who has just written a book called Championship Behaviours.Hugh played Volleyball for New Zealand national Junior and Senior teams before transitioning into coaching.In 2005 he was appointed as Head Coach of the USA men's team who went to win the Gold medal at the 2008 Olympics.Then in 2008 he was appointed coach of the USA women’s team, and led them to a silver medal at the 2012 Olympics.He is presently the Assistant Athletics Director at the University of Minnesota.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Great Coach on this episode is Malcolm Blight.Malcolm is a former Australian Rules Football player and coach, who is the only person in the game’s history to win the Brownlow, Magarey, and Coleman medals. As a coach he has led multiple teams, notably winning back-to-back premierships with Adelaide in 1997 and 1998. He was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996 and was elevated to Legend status in 2017Interviewing Malcolm was a great highlight for us, he was one of the people we wrote on our dream list when we started the podcast.This was a wonderful conversation, and I hope you enjoy it as we did.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Todays episode is on the topic of Feedback, and it features audio quotes from 14 coaches that we have interviewed on the podcast.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Great Coach on this episode is Mike Candrea.Mike is a Softball coach who after 36 years leading the University of Arizona has retired as one of the most respected coaches of Any sport in the USA. He is the all-time winningest coach in college softball history and ranked fourth of any coach in any NCAA sport with 1,674 wins. His teams have won 8 Women's College World Series and 11× Pac 12 or 10 Regular Season titles. In addition, he led Team USA to 2004 Olympic Gold medal and the 2008 silver medal. And In 2017 he was inducted into the USA Softball Hall of FameMike is a wise and generous person who openly shares the many lessons he has taken from the extreme highs and lows he has experienced in his life.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.