Welcome back. Our guest today is Dr Ben Rosenblatt.

Ben has coached athletes to every Olympic Games since 2008, worked in Olympic gold medal winning teams and for the last seven years, led England football’s physical performance department as part of Gareth Southgate’s backroom team.

Most recently, he founded his own company, 292 performance, who provide high-performance support to high-performing individuals.

In this episode, we discuss;

- The 5 necessities for a high-performing team

- How Gareth Southgate’s leadership team successfully engineered culture change

- His most memorable moments with the England Football team

- Why, in his opinion, identity eats culture for breakfast

You can expect to understand;

- How to deeply motivate your people

- How to successfully lead culture change

- How to use failure as a competitive advantage

- And how to create sustainable, high performance

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Most importantly, thank you for watching and listening. This podcast was created for you, and I hope you enjoy the episode.

(00:00) Podcast intro

(00:51) Guest intro

(01:42) Ben’s story

(04:30) What attracted him

(05:33) His ‘why’

(06:28) Art vs science

(10:06) Advice for new leaders

(16:37) Winning Olympic gold

(19:03) Importance of celebrating success

(19:36) Integrating your vision, values and behaviours

(21:08) Decentralised leadership & ownership

(24:42) Importance of living your values

(27:10) Owen Eastwood’s book ‘Belonging’

(27:30) Storytelling over slogans

(29:07) Identity eats culture for breakfast

(29:52) Pink inflatable unicorns & EAST

(34:00) Gamifying development

(34:43) 5 necessities for high performing teams

(39:00) Understanding your team’s needs

(40:46) Best moments with England

(43:03) Importance of small wins

(46:00) First step in turning the ship around

(48:28) Importance of awareness and desire for change

(50:03) What underpins team’s actions

(51:00) Successfully challenging status quo

(54:44) The COM-B model of behaviour change

(58:00) The issue with culture

(58:50) The culture change trade-off

(1:00:12) Aligning your mission & values with your identity

(1:04:20) Detaching yourself from the outcome

(1:07:16) Traits of the world’s best athletes

(1:09:17) Mindfulness for sustainable success

(1:13:20) Opportunity vs threat mindset

(1:16:00) Traits of the world’s best leaders

(1:16:58) Hiring vs developing mindset

(1:21:23) Word association

(1:23:45) Summary & insights

(1:36:58) 3 key takeaways