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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