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