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Inside the Ring with British Boxing Coach Ben Davison
Unlocking the insights of leadership from the lessons of high-performance sport coaches. Joining us is World Champion Boxing coach Ben Davison
We believe sport provides a learning environment for leadership and life, and so we interview Great Sports Coaches from around the world to find ideas to help us all be better people.
Our newsletter provides the best ideas from those interviews. We hope you find one or two ideas that you can share with your family, friends, and teams.
Our latest Great Coach interview is with British Boxing coach, Ben Davison. At just 29 years of age, Ben is an outlier in the world of Boxing coaches, who have often toil away for decades before experiencing the type of success Ben has enjoyed. In 2017 he joined up with Tyson Fury and helped him return to the ring and set out on the journey that would ultimately see him claim the WBC Heavyweight championship. |  |
Ben has gone on to work with other world champions including Billy Joe Saunders and the undisputed world champions Josh Taylor, Devin Haney, and Leigh Wood.
Follow these links to hear our full discussion with Ben…
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This week's leadership insight comes for Becky Burleigh, an American soccer coach who has not long retired after leading the University of Florida Gators for 26 years. She holds a winning percentage of 75%, ranking her second in total number of all time wins among Division 1 coaches.
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For our newsletter subscribers, here’s an early preview to an episode that will be released over this week that focuses on the topic of Energy. We are joined once again by Dr. Gavin Weeks. We interviewed Gavin a while back on the topic of Purpose, we received such wonderful feedback on that episode, we’re delighted to have him back. Gavin is a Doctor of Psychology and Associate Fellow at Oxford Saïd Business School and director of innovation and development at the consultancy Thompson Harrison. |  Released this week !!! |
On the topic of On Energy, Gavin speaks about how energy has both a physical and psychological element; and how being able to renew your energy in both of those areas is critical as a leader.
 | One of featured coaches in our soon to be released On Energy episode is South African Rugby coach, Heyneke Meyer. Heyneke has had a remarkable coaching career, rising quickly to become the Head Coach of the Blue Bulls rugby team from 2000 leading them to the Sth African championship four times and to a Super Rugby championship in 2007. In 2012, he was appointed as Head Coach of the South African National Rugby team, the Springboks. |
Heyneke is a passionate, honest and a master motivator. His energy is infectious and he conveys this through storytelling and metaphor to distill the essence of his messages in a powerful way. Our full interview with Heyneke is available here
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"Insightful, Inspirational and Incredibly useful. Most people focus on the players but this focus on the leaders .. often behind the scenes, it is not only interesting but incredibly helpful. Great stuff guys, please keep it coming."
In this old sales training video from the iconic coach Vince Lombardi, he talks about your second effort, and not giving up so easily. In some parts it looks quite old (the brusque attitude and the language) but in others it seems fresh and up to date (the focus on rebounding).
Your second (and third and fourth) efforts define you in sport. And it’s no different in school or work. There does of course come a point when you must walk away and move on; but that is very rarely after the first try.
Figuring out the amount of effort you want to ask of people; or as coach Lombardi puts in; the price you are willing to pay; is a one of those leadership tasks that changes every day. It takes effort and poise and it’s never easy.
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