Episode 71: Mark Bennett, Supporting Change and Better Influencers

Mark Bennett, Supporting Change and Better Influencers Guest: Mark Bennett, Former Instructor in the British Commandos and senior Warrant Officer within the Army Physical Training Corps   Basketball Podcast to discuss how his Performance System Development (PDS) can support change for managers, teachers, coaches, and athletes. Mark Bennett is a former Instructor in the British Commandos and senior Warrant Officer within the Army Physical Training Corps who has transformed his nearly 30 years of practice and research into developing the Performance Development Systems (PDS); a robust set of principles that can facilitate world class learning, performance cultures and environments. He currently works as a consultant, coach, trainer and mentor with various professional and national sport organizations, teams and Universities around the world, as well as Schools and community sports to help transform the leadership capabilities of every coach and teacher that he comes in contact with. Put simply, Mark makes people better “influencers”. Over the last 3 decades Mark has worked with over 30 sports at all levels and age groups. This includes grass roots, professional and International teams, national sports organisations & Olympic coaches.   Breakdown 1:00 - 3 Key elements of what he does 3:00 - "Performance is a Behavior‚ Not an Outcome" 5:00 - Ultimate Goal of the performance 8:00 - Extremities Position 9:00 - Coping Coaching Interventions 13:00 - PDS look like in real situations 16:00 - Effective Scanning 17:30 - Non-negotiables 19:00 - Agreement and Reminding 20:30 - Principle of "Player First‚ Player Last" 23:00 - Hypening Mental Effort During Practice 25:30 - Questions coaches should be used for desired outcomes 29:30 - Things that Coaches Can Do to Better Regulate Themselves 32:30 - Self-awareness is Talent 34:00 - Handling Tough Coaching 36:30 - Holding Players Accountable to Doing like Non-negotiable 39:00 - Be Better in the Game as Coaches 41:30 - Doing Group v’s Individual Interventions as Coaches 44:00 - Technical and Tactical Approaches 47:00 - Taking these approaches while Maintaining Uniqueness 49:00 - Practical Things used by Coaches that fit into his system 52:00 - How coaches commit their way of coaching when results matter 55:30 - Developing these Principles of Coaching without his Support 58:00 - Challenges that Coaches Face when taking on the approach 1:00:00 - 3 Things that you need to focus on as Coaches 1:01:00 - Conclusion   Mark Bennett’s Bio Bio: https://www.pdscoaching.com/about-the-creator-pds-coach-mark-be  Twitter: https://twitter.com/PDScoach Website : www.PDSCoaching.com    Basketball Immersion Website: http://basketballimmersion.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bballimmersion?lang=en YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/basketballimmersion Facebook: https://facebook.com/basketballimmersion   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.