Today’s episode is on the topic of Thriving.

To help me I have invited 2 special guests.

The first is Dr. Gavin. Gavin is a Doctor of Psychology and Associate Fellow at Oxford Sayyid Business School. We have had Gavin on previously to discuss Energy and Purpose.

The second is Valorie Kondos Field.

Valorie, or Miss Val as she is known, was the head of coach of the UCLA gymnastics team from 1991 to 2019, leading the team to seven national and 18 Pac 12 Championships.

She was voted NCAA Coach of the Year four times by her peers and in 2016 was voted the Coach of the Century by the PAC12 Conference.

Her Ted Talk, titled Why winning doesn’t always equal success, has been viewed over 4 million times, and she recently released a best selling book called Life is Short, Don't Wait to Dance

Q: How does your organization experience thriving? What can you do to facilitate this?

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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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