Leaders Performance Podcast

Leaders Performance Podcast


What Helps the Best Coaches Get Ahead and Stay Ahead?

September 21, 2023

“Serial winning coaches don’t just want to get ahead – they want to stay ahead,” Professor Cliff Mallett tells the Leaders Performance Podcast.

“But they know that staying ahead means having healthy relationships of mutual trust and care with the people that they work with.”


Cliff and his colleague Sergio Lara-Bercial join Henry Breckenridge and John Portch for this episode to discuss their new book Learning from Serial Winning Coaches: Caring Determination.


In an extended chat we delve into:


  • Why Serial Winning Coaches are the ‘outliers amongst outliers’ [7:00];
  • How coaches should approach developing ‘care’ and ‘determination’ with their athletes [31:00];
  • How Serial Winning Coaches can help us to inform the identification, recruitment and development of the next generation of coaches [39:30];
  • Why coaching is about striving, surviving and thriving [45:00].


Learning from Serial Winning Coaches: Caring Determination is published by Routledge.


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