Creating and Maintaining Successful and Meaningful Team Culture

The Coaches get emotional in this one talking about how one coach made a monumental difference for his athletes. Here's what gets covered in this episode.

• Culture is NOT a saying or statement posted on your locker room, weight room wall or slogan you slap on a T-shirt and refer to when it's convenient. It's a living breathing organism that's GOT to be nourished and poured into daily.
• It has to start with a self diagnostic period of reflection on where are you, where do you want to go as a leader
• WHAT is your MVP? not who is your MVP
• Using 3 C’s 3 E’s and 3 P’s will definitely act as a launching point for developing your culture. 
• So much to work on as a coach, but if we pick one or two elements to focus on at a time for one season, or a week, or even one game or practice, we’ll be able to work at becoming that 1%better.
• BTTYBTTT.
• Extreme Ownership
• Develop everyday habits for individuals on a team that fosters a sense of belonging, purpose and betterment
• Service or Status - Status drives failure. When you play to serve others you build trust and love and success will follow.
• Coaching and leadership at it’s best is service to others
• Coaching is the ultimate customer service job.
• The best of the best do things differently and it starts with building the right culture.
• There is a championship culture that dictates how they treat each other, how they respond to adversity, and how they perform at their highest level regardless of their sport or their level.
• Creating the right culture will lead to:
  • More predictable and consistent outcomes
  • Catching and passing the competition that’s ahead of you
  • Leading others and becoming the best at what you do
• If players resist buy in, try to be more clear on what you're asking players to buy into first.  
• What are the 4 Stages of Buy In?
• Keep sharing the message even if it’s not sinking in for athletes. 
• Find different approaches if one is not working with an athlete or student
• Close knit teams and player led teams are the most successful

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Transcript

00:00:00:05 - 00:00:31:10
Speaker 1
He team welcomed to Benchmarked the leadership coaching and mental performance podcast with Coach Mess here along with Coach Larocque. In this episode we are going to drill into the idea of building of the right culture. JG I have been looking forward to recording this episode all day and for several reasons. One, I absolutely love talking about this stuff, especially with you two.

00:00:31:20 - 00:00:50:05
Speaker 1
It's an area of growth for myself that I want to continue to focus on because I'm always thinking like, Man, I could have done this, I could have done this. I wish I would have done this. And three, we've had a chance to talk with so many magnificent leaders on on this show and on how they build their own cultures within their teams and businesses.

00:00:51:03 - 00:00:59:20
Speaker 1
And I want to share with some of that with our listeners. And lastly, I've got a surprise lined up for you for tonight. So I want to get started, man.

00:01:00:06 - 00:01:03:11
Speaker 2
I already went to Dairy Queen.

00:01:05:21 - 00:01:08:20
Speaker 1
Okay. What's your go to at Dairy Queen, by the way?

00:01:08:20 - 00:01:20:12
Speaker 2
Oh, buddy. By the way, I got the biggest thing I always get a I keep forgetting the name when you put peanut butter in it, in the heart of it, it's not call it signature. It's called a.

00:01:22:02 - 00:01:24:21
Speaker 1
This is new to me. Is this like custom secret menu?

00:01:25:02 - 00:01:28:16
Speaker 2
No. There's like a two. Two of them you can usually get and.

00:01:28:19 - 00:01:30:23
Speaker 1
I mean some like a peanut buster parfait or something.

00:01:30:24 - 00:01:39:07
Speaker 2
And then, you know, like literally peanut butter, right in the core of it, there's a certain name for it, but I dessert. It's a blizzard. Yeah, yeah. But this certain type of goes, my god.

00:01:39:21 - 00:01:42:02
Speaker 1
You're speaking some magical stuff right now.

00:01:42:03 - 00:01:59:01
Speaker 2
It go like I cook the Oreo blizzard, but like you make it with the peanut butter. Oh, and yesterday was yesterday was a Reese's Pieces cookie dough with a peanut butter. So get.

00:01:59:19 - 00:02:01:17
Speaker 1
This episode brought to you.

00:02:01:17 - 00:02:04:01
Speaker 2
By Eddy Cue and.

00:02:04:01 - 00:02:08:00
Speaker 1
Gigi's thirst for peanut butter on the inside.

00:02:08:00 - 00:02:09:11
Speaker 2
What's your go to? You're an Oreo guy.

00:02:09:16 - 00:02:29:01
Speaker 1
I'm a score blizzard guy. I do. I don't deviate. I don't deviate from score. Every time I try something else or they bring out some fancy flavor and I get the minis right. So it's like, as I said, I don't wanna feel guilty afterwards and it's just enough. It's a taste but I'm a score blizzard get sometimes extra score but like score blizzard guy.

00:02:29:09 - 00:02:31:12
Speaker 2
Broil that's what they're called a royal.

00:02:31:12 - 00:02:32:10
Speaker 1
The royal.

00:02:32:17 - 00:02:37:15
Speaker 2
Yes for a royal, whatever it is knows how to put fudge in it or peanut butter. You got to tell.

00:02:37:20 - 00:02:42:06
Speaker 1
Oh, my God. I have told my mum that she loves that stuff, man. That's amazing.

00:02:42:19 - 00:02:45:22
Speaker 2
It's fantastic. All right, all right.

00:02:45:22 - 00:03:22:03
Speaker 1
So what's really whistle culture developing at the end of the day? We're always talking about doing some really cool things in a team and what's our purpose? Part of our purpose of this podcast is helping people develop better team culture. So whether it's through like our nine elements or whatever it is, the goal is you want to be a better leader to create a better or a better coach or a better teacher or better business owner to create an environment or a culture that your employees are on, come to work.

00:03:22:08 - 00:03:49:05
Speaker 1
They want to do the best job. They want to be happy, fulfilled, everything with lines up, and you can put a label of success on it that makes sense. Like it. Let's define culture, right? I want to improve the culture. What is it? And I know we just had two episodes ago coach Hynes on and one of his things and we say this all the time we've discussed this on a lot of our our shows with multiple people.

00:03:49:05 - 00:04:15:00
Speaker 1
And even between you and I, I know we say this to people, it's not a saying. It's not words that you can post up on the room and say, Oh, this is our culture. And we've got and I always say effort or, you know, preparation or whatever you can like our nine elements of successful leadership are seizes and piece their words, but those are their words that you have to actually put life into.

00:04:15:01 - 00:04:33:11
Speaker 1
Right. Like, as Hines says, you can put them on a t shirt and refer to them when they're convenient. It's not going to mean anything. They're living, breathing organisms that got to be nourished and poured into daily. We say mine them and refine them until you get to where you want to go, right?

00:04:34:04 - 00:04:50:16
Speaker 2
I brought two t shirts today. It's like I say, it's not just on a t shirt, but our two t shirts we have for our team in our program that we have our players wear. So also there's a little bit later and why why the words are on there and what we kind of do to follow through with some of these things now.

00:04:51:12 - 00:05:10:06
Speaker 1
And as I was thinking, as we were prepping for this, how do you start and I think is like the and you say you're one of your famous lines is the start is what stops most people. It is a daunting task. So let's say if you're coming in, let's give a scenario. So you're you're in a work environment that's toxic.

00:05:10:11 - 00:05:32:13
Speaker 1
So you take over a team that for coach has been fired and you have to rebuild, right. So you have to look at what's there. Maybe you're starting a new business and you're going to surround yourself with people that will thrive and create your culture that you want. And so after you create that culture, you provide the environment and you want to foster that culture.

00:05:33:06 - 00:05:54:16
Speaker 1
But to me, I was thinking like, where would you start? And I think for for me personally, I would say it has to start with the self diagnostic arc, a period of reflection of where I am, who I am, and where do I want to go with the leader. And we always say like, what would be my MVP, my mission, my vision and my core principles, right?

00:05:54:21 - 00:06:07:06
Speaker 1
And we always refer to that as we say, what's my why? Well, because I want I want kids to be better. Right? So what's my MVP mission? Vision core principles.

00:06:07:06 - 00:06:27:24
Speaker 2
I, I started so I started off fresh out of teachers college. I got a contract, I went to a big high school and I was overwhelmed there in my eyes. At that time we heard had their culture and places kind of like your high school is it's an older high school and it has a lot of history and past and it's amazing.

00:06:29:03 - 00:06:48:24
Speaker 2
I felt uncomfortable there. I wanted to go to a smaller school and create my own culture. So that's what I did for about 12 years, went into a place where they basically had no, no, no, no. FARZAD had some sports teams and everything was just there. And one of the schools that was like, It's just a great night.

00:06:48:24 - 00:07:04:19
Speaker 2
The first year, just the nine and ten, just a nine, ten, 11 until it got to nine through 12. And then so to kind of build a culture. So I kind of did that where I think I did that did some I think positive things, some things I should have done a better job with. And that was part of the learning process.

00:07:04:19 - 00:07:21:07
Speaker 2
And then now moving to us back to that school, it's funny and back to the school where I was intimidated before walking into the school. And I feel really at home and really part of the family in a different type of culture, really, really good culture with some rich history. So I got to, I think, experience a little bit of both.

00:07:22:13 - 00:07:38:23
Speaker 2
But like you said, when you go into it and you're trying to build something because my thing was like the foot, the footprints have already been set when I was looking at it like it's someone's already set the trend in this school or in this team and how things are going to be in that, which is great, but I want it to be my own footprint.

00:07:39:00 - 00:07:58:16
Speaker 2
This is what my mindset was at the same time. And having done both, you know, looking back at where I am in my career and I've seen it kind of see the same thing that's different at different times of your life, basically. So if you're beginning coach with that, looks like if you're a more seasoned coach, if you're at the halfway point, it's going to be different for all of you.

00:07:58:16 - 00:08:10:03
Speaker 2
But like Mark saying, what's your what's your why? What's your mission? What's your vision? What's your core principles? And because at the end of the day, you need to be the constant kids are going to come and go. You need to be the consistency in all of this process.

00:08:10:17 - 00:08:40:21
Speaker 1
Yeah, it's so true. Like, and I could see what you're saying, like going somewhere that's established this now the here's where the diagnostic comes in is the establishment good? Not necessarily. Maybe parts of it might be. So then sometimes, like one of the things I had coffee with one of my colleagues this morning and one of the things we talked about is what we feel makes us successful is we're constantly one holding each other accountable.

00:08:40:21 - 00:08:58:16
Speaker 1
Like, that's a terrible idea. We've been doing this for way too long. It's dated. Let's move on and do something else, like trying to stay cutting edge. So that's why I always love the youth comes in with great new ideas to share and say, Hey, have you considered doing this? You have to be open to that. You have to put the ego aside.

00:08:58:24 - 00:09:16:22
Speaker 1
Same thing. If I'm starting a business and I start, I don't know everything. Remember, we've talked about this before as well. Like you can't be the master of everything. If you do that, you're going to spin out of control, hire good people, bring good people in that are specialists in certain things that will make you look good. And to me, that's that's an amazing concept to do.

00:09:16:22 - 00:09:32:19
Speaker 1
And I know some people love going to start new schools because they have that opportunity to start from scratch and say, this is our culture, which is kind of cool. So uses Segway me into our surprise buddy and I don't want to wait because I'm like a kid at Christmas. I just want to unwrap this.

00:09:32:19 - 00:09:41:06
Speaker 2
Giving away expert gifts meant I can buy something like this three months from now and I'll ruin it two more time with this awesome.

00:09:41:06 - 00:09:45:23
Speaker 1
That's why I always wait till the last minute. I don't have to do that.

00:09:45:23 - 00:09:46:18
Speaker 2
That's my last minute.

00:09:47:13 - 00:10:02:12
Speaker 1
So before we go any further, I want to give a shout out and say we're going to dedicate this show to the KC I Raiders senior boys rugby team now. Yes, yes.

00:10:02:13 - 00:10:05:19
Speaker 2
Well, I was wondering I wanted to ask yesterday, do tell dude felt.

00:10:06:03 - 00:10:28:13
Speaker 1
All right so here's what I'm going to tell you. And the reason why and I did not for our listeners is the JJ just talked about like an established school and one of our I'm going to say he's our friend now because we made friends with with Coach Cody Roberts in from Kitchener-Waterloo. And he teaches at a high school called Kitchener Collegiate Institute, and he's the rugby coach there.

00:10:29:02 - 00:10:54:03
Speaker 1
And he attended a coaching seminar that Jager and I were putting on this winter, and he attended all six of our sessions and we had some very rich conversations. And one of the concepts that we talked about in the seminar was the cookie jar. And you are going to love this. And when when Cody called me today and we talked because I said, Hey, I want to bring up your story about your cookie jar.

00:10:54:03 - 00:11:08:08
Speaker 1
And I said, you know, can I can I mention him by name and talk? He's like, Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I actually invited him to be on the podcast. He's like, No, I don't. He wasn't ready for that. So I was like, Okay, I'll pass on the story. So Cody, next time I was like, Oh, he's going to love this.

00:11:08:08 - 00:11:16:08
Speaker 1
I'm going to surprise him with this. So he wanted an idea. So he's been he's he's been coaching rugby for now, for a long time and he wanted to establish a.

00:11:16:17 - 00:11:17:19
Speaker 2
It should at Christmas right now.

00:11:18:08 - 00:11:36:16
Speaker 1
Oh, I'm so excited. I go, I don't want to blow this, I got to take my time because I don't want to blow any of this because I, I prep this hard for you. So Cody said, you know, I want some ideas on, on how to establish a better culture in my team. And so we gave him the idea of a cookie jar.

00:11:36:16 - 00:11:55:04
Speaker 1
And so our idea of a cookie jar is you have something you could do personally, you can do it for a team. And what the cookie jar is, is it's no secret David Goggins uses this all the time and he talks about, you got to put cookies. You know, ideas into the cookie jar, like, hey, I did really well today.

00:11:55:04 - 00:12:17:06
Speaker 1
I, you know, I did my homework that you could put it like on a sticky note and you put it in a jar and you make deposits in the cookie jar like I hit a homerun today. It's confidence builders, it's character builders. They're all the little things. I do this with my senior kids a lot and in classes and have them write down one good thing they've done every week and they put it in the cookie jar.

00:12:17:15 - 00:12:37:11
Speaker 1
And at the end when things are going hard and they're stressed out, or if you're a team and you want to look back at all the good things that you've done to build up, you put you are times are tough. You take withdrawals out of that cookie jar. So when you know how you're saying you're running a marathon and every mile is one something, you know, something else, you put a different thought in your mind and I'm going to make withdrawals now when things are tough.

00:12:38:04 - 00:12:58:18
Speaker 1
So Cody wanted an idea to develop on that. And what we did was we stayed on after the seminar and we were brainstorming some stuff. And you gave him the idea of dropping something in a bucket, like a drop in a bucket. So the idea was because it makes an audible noise. So here's what Cody did, and this is what I want to share with all our listeners.

00:12:58:18 - 00:13:00:21
Speaker 1
And you want to talk about building team culture.

00:13:03:00 - 00:13:22:22
Speaker 1
Well, we're talking homerun here, or it was since we're dedicating this to a rugby team, we're going to say this is like multiple tries. They came up with this. So Cody's idea was nuts and bolts and also nuts and bolts. And what he had, it was he had a massive glass jar. So like a like a growler of beer, first of all.

00:13:23:10 - 00:13:42:17
Speaker 1
So like a mass, I think I forget how many. It's like maybe like a five liter jug is what he had. I don't know how many gallons that is for our American listeners, but it's big. So the idea of nuts and bolts is when you build large buildings, you need big pieces, right? The concrete, the rebar, the steel beams, all that stuff.

00:13:43:11 - 00:14:08:07
Speaker 1
But you also need the small things. So you and I talk about process over outcome all the time habits, accountability and all the small things. And Cody really took that to heart. So the the small things he says hold the big things together. You need the nuts and bolts. Okay. So but the funny thing is about the nuts and bolts is that you can't see them, but they're there, right?

00:14:08:07 - 00:14:24:03
Speaker 1
So once you put the building together, a lot of times you don't see they're hidden behind drywall, they're hidden behind steel wall, whatever. You don't see them. So for them, that meant all this stuff that goes on behind the scenes that makes a difference in their performance you like in the so far.

00:14:24:10 - 00:14:25:17
Speaker 2
But in their cry.

00:14:26:22 - 00:14:48:20
Speaker 1
So as he's telling me this I've got I said this is like three I had three sets of chills when he's talking to me on the phone about their experience this year. So he said to his team and he and it to give you a little bit of a preface, they had a rough start. They had one of their players that got themselves into some really some trouble at the beginning of the season.

00:14:49:10 - 00:14:51:24
Speaker 2
And what's that senior player.

00:14:52:06 - 00:15:09:21
Speaker 1
Senior player got himself into a little bit of hot water at the very I think it was it might have been one of their first practices or something. And he turned it around and rather than discipline the kid in a way that would have maybe isolated them, embarrassed them or whatever, he wanted the kid take responsibility. Extreme ownership.

00:15:10:04 - 00:15:29:00
Speaker 1
And this this player addressed the team and says, this was not me being a good leader. He took absolute responsibility and ownership for his actions and says, I need to turn this around and I need to be better for my teammates. And that was the springboard for the rest of their season. So back to the nuts and bolts.

00:15:29:00 - 00:15:50:04
Speaker 1
So he was so proud of these guys and he said, We're going to celebrate all the little things that we do together as a team on and off the field. So for everything you do, you'd put in not or bolt into sorry team leader glass jar. I'm wrong, he says, a tow leader glass jar. So Gigi, explain to our listeners why we want something that makes a noise.

00:15:51:19 - 00:16:14:04
Speaker 2
So I read this in the book called Made to Stick. I can remember the author Apologize for me to stick this little duct tape on the on the cover. So what they were trying to explain to people is that so here's an example they'll give, you know, if you're trying to, you know, giving money to kids in Africa, for example, this is the kind of example they're giving.

00:16:14:13 - 00:16:38:04
Speaker 2
So, you know, when they did some research, people would give maybe $2 per person, but when they made it specific to a certain person. So you name the person their age and you're going to kind of a physical description. People are doing it like twice the amount of money because it came a little bit personal. So that was the first part to this, the next part and said, when you make it loud and visual, people remember that.

00:16:38:19 - 00:17:03:00
Speaker 2
So there was somebody who was trying to tell they're going like place the place telling them how many nuclear ali missiles the United States has to really kind of get a grasp. And like I could tell you, hey, Mark, you know, the U.S. has 1 million missiles and you're like, whatever, one, whatever. So what these people would do to get their point across and so they'll get a Big Ten bucket and they would grab babies.

00:17:03:00 - 00:17:21:04
Speaker 2
Big babies, like pretty like Big Ali's almost. And they would drop one in and then the other one in the other one in the other one. So just that sound kind of made you realize like there's a million of these coming. So it's, it's, it's the sound, it's the presence, the kind of maybe wakes you up because we just see a number and people just kind of tune that out.

00:17:21:12 - 00:17:25:05
Speaker 2
But you can hear a number and you can feel it and see it's totally different conversation.

00:17:25:10 - 00:17:52:04
Speaker 1
Breathe life into it doesn't. Right. So 20 leaders. So this thing's massive. That's a lot of beer, by the way. So again, he intentionally chose the jar so that it made a noise every time a player put one in and he wanted to encourage the player, he said, I encourage this in his words. I encourage all players to ask what each other did to warrant the entry, not to question each other, but to celebrate other success.

00:17:52:23 - 00:18:08:19
Speaker 1
So he said good thing they have an auto shop at their school because they need a lot of old nuts and bolts to fill this up. And so I said, Cody, I want you to like examples. Like everybody's going to have different things of like what warrants me putting something into your jar here?

00:18:09:17 - 00:18:17:15
Speaker 2
Yeah. So sorry, I didn't know if you're getting to this or not, but didn't he have that young man that kind of from the beginning dropped the first one in the bucket? Yeah.

00:18:17:20 - 00:18:34:20
Speaker 1
I am sorry. He took ownership of a situation and he dropped the first one in the bucket. And that just kind of steamrolled so. And the other thing too is and while we'll get to this, let me let me that's a great question. But yeah, that that young man believe was the first guy to drop something in the bucket.

00:18:34:20 - 00:18:57:23
Speaker 1
So like, for example, staying up late on Friday night to study because say maybe they were going to miss class for a game or something like that. They had a test on Monday. So they're staying up, waking up early, you know, going to bed early, doing your homework, going for a run on the weekend, sitting out in front of class instead of out with your buddies in the back of the classroom, asking your teacher for extra help, different things like that.

00:18:57:23 - 00:19:16:02
Speaker 1
He even talked about one time where they had an entire class as our school assembly sorry, and a couple of his players stayed behind to clean up chairs. And they got they got they gave themselves some nuts and bolts for that, like big time, like community stuff. That is amazing, right? You know, helping an old lady cross st, whatever it is.

00:19:16:20 - 00:19:34:11
Speaker 1
They basically felt like if there is good being done, they deserved to drop something in this jar. And they looked at it. It's like, you know, they paid rent, he says. I was like paying rent. Like they wanted to make sure that there was an audible sound and you're paying into this because it was going to pay off in the end.

00:19:35:04 - 00:19:56:22
Speaker 1
So he talked about and he got this from our seminar about discipline versus motivation, because discipline is hard, motivation is easy. And we just talk about this recently is motivation will fool you. So Cody's a believer in that as well. So he talked, you know, the boys were fired up after the first meeting when they said they were going to do this and they were going to put the work in along the way.

00:19:57:12 - 00:20:17:16
Speaker 1
And that basically the nuts and bolts was about celebrating the discipline and each one of us was doing to help the team after you place yours into the jar, he says, Can you pick it out among the crowd like so see if you got a jar with 300 bolts in there and this is starting to get to me and he's telling me this, I'm starting to get chills now, right?

00:20:18:09 - 00:20:39:24
Speaker 1
He's like, you can't tell yours from others, right? You can't tell because as the jar starts filling up over the course of the season, it's like, you know, I can't tell which is my bolt in there because I'm just putting in with my teammates. It becomes the teams. So that's our idea of service over status. So I'm putting this in there for my team.

00:20:39:24 - 00:21:02:12
Speaker 1
I'm making a deposit for my team so that when times get tough, we can make a withdrawal. I was just like, Man, this is just amazing. So he says and the kids bought it. They were in they had this in their team room and he sent me pictures and I'll post them when we on. And along with the episode here you can see that and you can see the jars starting to get filled up where it was at the beginning of the season, where it was at the end of the season.

00:21:03:15 - 00:21:19:17
Speaker 1
So what they were saying, their team slogan was becoming, Hey, nuts and bolts, baby, we're putting nuts and bolts in, right? And they even got T-shirts made with nuts. And people are asking them like, What do you have t shirt with a nut and bolt on them? And it was just it was I was like, I love it.

00:21:19:17 - 00:21:51:01
Speaker 1
I love it. So it really real cool stuff. So they made it to the regional semifinals, but lost by one point. They lost by one point in a rugby game at the regional semifinals. And he's like, it was just an unbelievable feeling. And he says as much as it hurt to lose. But he said the team and himself and his coaches felt lifted by all the cool things that had been going on throughout the year.

00:21:51:01 - 00:22:11:01
Speaker 1
Doing those small things mattered so much because, he says, when we were hit with failure for the first time as a team early in the year, we had the nuts and bolts of every one around us to strengthen us and help and help us through it. During the last meeting of they had in their celebration of their team, he brought the big glass jar and then a smaller Jared says it.

00:22:11:06 - 00:22:27:15
Speaker 1
He says, I asked what the goal of the nuts and bolts was. Was it to fill the jar? Well, if that was the case, then our season would have been defined on the size of the jar. Large jar equals fail because we didn't fill it. Small jar we would have one because it was smaller than what our bolts could have held.

00:22:28:11 - 00:22:50:24
Speaker 1
But the same the number of nuts and bolts was in the jar perspective was so important. And he says our season was defined more by the small things we did every day to prepare ourselves for better, to be better in rugby and in life. And this is just I was like, man, like, I'm I'm starting to get emotional thinking about this.

00:22:52:05 - 00:23:24:09
Speaker 1
Each kid asked to take a nut in a bowl for them after this season as a reminder of the nuts and bolts things that you need to be successful over the course of a season and your life. He talked about a man, a young man who had had some challenges in his own personal life and had some tough times and he had written the words nuts and bolts on his arm as a reminder of what's important.

00:23:25:09 - 00:23:50:22
Speaker 1
And I'm going to read you the letter that this coach Cody Roberts got from his team after the season. Dear Robbo, great nickname, by the way. Words can't describe how thankful we are to have had you as a coach this year. Thank you for all the lessons you taught us on and off the field. Nuts and bolts, baby.

00:23:51:22 - 00:24:17:19
Speaker 1
Thank you for showing this. The importance of celebrating the little accomplishments this represented by the glass jar filled with nuts and bolts, created a visual representation of this motto that we will all use for the rest of our lives. Discipline is greater than motivation. With our many goals we set this year came several ups and downs. This drove us to become extremely motivated.

00:24:18:09 - 00:24:41:01
Speaker 1
Thank you for showing us how important it is to stay composed and understand what you're fighting for. And they always use the motto Once we had a victory, we went on to the next job and the next task, as many of us are moving on and a new chapter of our life, it is important we don't dwell on the past and focus on our next job.

00:24:41:01 - 00:25:01:11
Speaker 1
It has been an honor playing for you, Mr. Roberts. Thank you for helping create this group of brothers who will remain such for the rest of our lives. Thank you for showing us. It's okay to show emotion because emotion could be one of your biggest motivations in life. As stated before, we could never have asked for a better coach, better teacher, better friend.

00:25:01:23 - 00:25:38:22
Speaker 1
Thank you KCA Senior Boys Rugby Team 2022 men like this. Not even my team. Wow Cody man like again I am grateful. I know. Geez, thanks for sharing that with us because you talk about purpose and your why and yeah, you didn't win the gold medal at the end of the season, but that's it. That's it. That's a world championship right there, in my opinion, man.

00:25:38:22 - 00:26:05:06
Speaker 1
It doesn't get any better than that. You want to talk about culture now. That's culture that there. And that's why I wanted to kind of bring that up today and say like, we got teams that are pulling sayings up on a wall and doing things, but are they actually living and breathing it like this team was, you know, my little sticky notes in an envelope that's like, I can never go back now, Cody.

00:26:05:14 - 00:26:22:04
Speaker 1
Cody Roberts is ruining me for my stupid little cookie jar method, you know? And the fact that, like, like the the the it's such a great metaphor, though. You can't see it. And I love that stuff like, Oh.

00:26:22:14 - 00:26:35:19
Speaker 2
Yeah, that's what you're talking about. Like the nuts and bolts of behind, you know, the drywall or whatever. Yeah, nobody sees that. But that's literally the tooling, everything together. Like that's the that's the man that's like next level stuff.

00:26:36:00 - 00:26:38:11
Speaker 1
Surprise, coach. That's your surprise for this evening.

00:26:38:18 - 00:26:55:21
Speaker 2
Great, great, great, great, great surprise. You know, I was going to ask you. Yes, you were doing a show was up and I'm glad I didn't because I got to hear this. And that's a cool part. Mark and I got to meet Cody in Kitchener where there was some baseball, so we went hung out for about an hour.

00:26:55:21 - 00:27:16:17
Speaker 2
So whatever the case may be and just a great human being and it was funny because if listened to our presentation, but we were like basically abuse talk. We're both kind of like just listening to everything he had to say and like, it's like you give somebody an idea, they just run like way further than you ever thought or even possible.

00:27:16:17 - 00:27:23:23
Speaker 2
And that's exactly what Tony did. Oh, super inspirational. Congratulations. And thank you so much for for sharing code.

00:27:24:06 - 00:27:42:12
Speaker 1
And I asked him like, so, you know, like, what do you do next year for the kids that are coming back? Do you you because to me, culture is something that can carry over from year to year. So this is I think now this is a tough decision for Coach Roberts. Is he going to carry on for the the kids that are coming back in?

00:27:42:12 - 00:28:01:06
Speaker 1
They're going to be seniors next year that were part of this program. Now, you put your nuts and bolts in this year. Yeah, that's part of the my opinion. And I don't want to force Cody to do something, but to me, there's a carryover of of tradition year to year. There's a carryover of culture, there's a carryover of expectation.

00:28:01:14 - 00:28:26:01
Speaker 1
There is a carryover of of success. There's that is the success rate there that we want for our athletes. The fact that it carried kids through some challenging times, the fact that it carried the team through that, like you talk about like now, I would hope like people that like in in his school and on other teams are going to take this these kids that might coach in their communities down the road.

00:28:26:10 - 00:28:39:12
Speaker 1
The ripple effect from this is going to be felt generations from now because of this gentleman's passion for his kids and his team and just like absolute utmost respect, crazy.

00:28:40:00 - 00:29:00:01
Speaker 2
Kind of like and you talk about how things kind of progressed through or they kind of follow you, I guess in a little bit of a culture. It makes me more obviously so sure. The air with Blake Sloan and he had talked about you remember NHL player forever you can remember his name but when Michigan won their national championship, you know, what was the guy like 18, 19 years old.

00:29:00:01 - 00:29:18:11
Speaker 2
And when he spoke at the arena, like, what does it feel like to win a national championship? And his first words are basically that this is for all the guys that came before us that never had a chance to win this. Like you guys kind of set the groundwork for us to be successful here. And this is honestly what I think is going to happen with Cody and his school and his team wherever he goes.

00:29:18:24 - 00:29:35:02
Speaker 2
Is is that foundation like those those that group of young men created literally nuts and bolts and may they might not have seen or might not see how this is going to play out down the road. But it's because of them that I think that school's going to do well and be successful, not only football. That's that is what it is.

00:29:35:02 - 00:29:53:16
Speaker 2
We talk about wins and losses in our previous show, but just I think that's going to be the groundwork. And then hopefully there's somebody mature enough down the road that's going to say, hey, that team in 2022, you guys kind of set the groundwork for us to be successful where we are today as young men, community leaders, parents, wherever it is.

00:29:54:02 - 00:30:21:06
Speaker 1
Yeah, I mean, if I'm a part of that, I'm like, I don't think I even have to win a game. And that's a successful season. I don't know. And we talked about this the other day, like, you eventually have to win. I know I put you on the spot, but to me, I would be willing to bet like this is anecdotally, but and I asked you the question, how does driving your culture and your vision actually turn into wins on the scoreboard?

00:30:21:09 - 00:30:39:14
Speaker 1
Doing this type of stuff absolutely turns into wins on the scoreboard because those guys now are playing for one another. They're playing for the coach that they're doing it for all the right reasons. And when the going gets tough, it's going to be good. So it does turn into the opportunities to play in in a regional semifinal. Like that's a big deal, right?

00:30:39:15 - 00:30:46:03
Speaker 1
That's a big deal. So it's not it's not the the loss that matters in this season. It's all the wonderful things that they did.

00:30:46:16 - 00:31:05:23
Speaker 2
So when I hear this more and more that we're talking about it out loud, I'm like, Yeah, I'll say it. I feel confident that if you don't have the right culture, like it's just a ticking time bomb, you can be successful now. But that thing is literally a ticking time bomb, start time bomb that's ready to go off at any time because you're just you're you don't have the nuts and bolts in place.

00:31:05:23 - 00:31:12:02
Speaker 2
And this thing's going to you know, it's going to fall it's going to a trap door eventually if you don't have the right things in place. That's right.

00:31:12:11 - 00:31:36:20
Speaker 1
Yeah, absolutely. And I know, for example, like I you know, I mean, the idea of individual kids being recognize and the least the last and the lost, those are the kids in your program. It's easy to gravitate to your stud. And we've had a couple of guests who said, like, you can, those are the easy ones you don't like.

00:31:37:09 - 00:32:02:20
Speaker 1
It's the kids that are the nuts and bolts of a team that often put it together. So a great I forget who was a baseball coach. I think it was Earl Weaver that said the All-Star Game, the MLB All-Star Game, should have a position for a utility guy because they're absolutely more so important to a team. Like, Oh, let's use an example like Aspinall for the Blue Jays this year.

00:32:02:20 - 00:32:05:10
Speaker 1
He's I think he's played every position on the field except catcher.

00:32:06:00 - 00:32:10:04
Speaker 2
You know. What's that. Visuals and other and visuals.

00:32:10:04 - 00:32:39:12
Speaker 1
Yes, you're right. Yeah. And those are the nuts and bolts guys, the glue we call them sometimes. You know, the glue is another term for these. And we don't celebrate those guys enough. We don't talk to them enough. We don't give them the attention they deserve. But they do matter to our team. Right. So cool. So cool. I, I sent you that tweet this morning about this story of who packs your parachute and.

00:32:40:05 - 00:32:59:19
Speaker 1
Yeah, you thought that was pretty cool. Oh, that's a great story about, like, this, this Air Force pilot that was shot down in Vietnam and he was getting shot at come. And he's coming down his planes, you know, got blown out of the sky. He's coming down. He's getting shot at. And he's as he's about to pull, of course, in his parachute, he's like, I don't know who pack my paper.

00:32:59:19 - 00:33:25:00
Speaker 1
He's actually literally thing is, my parachute can open and his parachute opens and he's getting shot in the air. He survives. He was in a P.O.W. camp for six years. Six years. So the story goes. He was in a restaurant in Kansas City with his wife and another couple, and he said some dude was looking at him and he's like, I don't know this guy who why is he staring at me?

00:33:25:06 - 00:33:45:06
Speaker 1
And why is this person I don't do I know this person? I can't place them. And this person at the restaurant finally got up, walked up to him and patted him on the shoulder. He says, Hey, you're so-and-so. You're a P.O.W. for six years. You name the days you flew off of this plane or off this boat, this was your plane that got blown up.

00:33:45:06 - 00:34:04:14
Speaker 1
And he says, I'm so-and-so. I packed your parachute that morning and the guy was just so I got you. You literally saved my life. And so it's like you don't know these people. And those are, to me, the nuts and bolts people that make a difference in the day to day stuff. We talk about your custodians at school there.

00:34:04:14 - 00:34:20:03
Speaker 1
How are we treating our custodians, our secretaries like these are the things that are so important that we can't forget and just dropping those things in the bucket, you don't see them, but they're there and they're important, man. I don't even.

00:34:20:18 - 00:34:37:11
Speaker 2
See the big pieces now. I don't. I know it's yeah. Because it's easy to see the big pieces of everything is I don't know, I don't know how to describe you describe it at 15 times super well. So I don't know what else I'm going to add to it. Yeah, I can see it's easy to know the big fish in the small pond.

00:34:37:11 - 00:34:47:19
Speaker 2
It's easy to recognize this, easy to recognize that. Like, you got to start digging. We've got to dig in mine refinement. You got to dig to be able to find what's what's the purest, I guess.

00:34:47:19 - 00:35:16:16
Speaker 1
Yeah. And it's hard work. You're going to get your knuckles bloody and it's going to stink. But at the end you're left with gold and diamonds and all the beautiful stuff. Right? And to me, this is again and I know I'm right. I'm a broken record on this status drives failure. I get frustrated with athletes, coaches especially coaches and leaders and teachers those who put status over service.

00:35:17:10 - 00:35:35:19
Speaker 1
And to me, that's getting it wrong. And I think it's magical. Like if you talk to any team who's at the top of or any athlete that's at the top of their game, they're going to say, because we're doing it, I'm doing it for my teammates. I'm working hard. I'm doing this because I don't want to disappoint the other people in my team.

00:35:35:19 - 00:35:57:11
Speaker 1
I'm doing this because of so-and-so, not because I'm doing this for me. Right. And and Dr. Gilbert says it all the time, too, and surprises you, everybody. We've got a team like even an individual athlete has a team behind them. If you're a pro golfer, you've got your physio staff, you've got your, you know, your immunity, you've got all these conditioning coach, you got all these people behind you.

00:35:57:17 - 00:36:09:00
Speaker 1
You are part of that team. So to me, it's the idea of when you play to serve others, you build trust and love and success will follow. Right.

00:36:09:22 - 00:36:29:06
Speaker 2
I was I never understood, like while watching the Academy Awards or whatever you watch it, they never understood. Like I like to think and they just go off and off and off. These people have no idea who they are. Like who cares? That's not, you know, big names or anything like that. But now as you progress through life and you learn more about these types of things.

00:36:29:21 - 00:36:48:01
Speaker 2
Josh Ross Same thing we talk like if I'm not doing what I'm doing, some, some people around me, they're not eat it. Yeah, right. It's not like it's not. Yeah, he's up on stage saying but he's doing that for himself. He's doing for everybody else that's around the vice person. They're doing the best they can to make sure he puts the best product out there because they're all star each other.

00:36:48:01 - 00:36:51:12
Speaker 2
It is such a team. Everything is about a team. Yeah.

00:36:51:12 - 00:37:05:24
Speaker 1
And what I look at it and I, I've always thought and understood this and I read this in Andre the Sharks in Japan. And so I'm in our book Team Chemistry.

00:37:05:24 - 00:37:28:00
Speaker 2
What, what, what? I'll replay it right here. So it's just like in the book as Andre shows, and then they go, What the hell is that? Okay, I was just like, You went to Paris, you left, like you said, Marie, Paris. And now you're back.

00:37:29:16 - 00:37:57:02
Speaker 1
In their book, Team Chemistry, Andre Last Chance and Jean-Francois Menard. They talk about coaching and leadership. It's it's like it's like customer service. Like you're there to serve others, right? It's best. You're the best. Are there in a service capacity? Like, what can I do for you as a coach? This can help you, right? It's not that transactional relationship that we've talked about before.

00:37:57:02 - 00:38:14:01
Speaker 1
It's a transfer missional relationship that we got to try to foster is as educators, as leaders. It's the same idea in the business world. Right. And now you how do you get to keep employees? How are you going to do that? Give them good pay, treat them well, right. Make them part of that family. It's going to be awesome.

00:38:14:01 - 00:38:36:21
Speaker 1
So, you know, the best of the best do things differently and it starts with building the right culture right now. That's how, you know, it dictates how people treat each other and how they respond to adversity, how they perform at the highest levels, regardless of of what it is they're doing. And when you create that right culture, you're going to have more predictable and consistent outcomes at the end of the day, right?

00:38:36:21 - 00:38:54:06
Speaker 1
That's what you want. Predictability and consistent like it pains me to say it, but the Yankees are going to be pretty darn good every year. Right. So, you know, you can kind of bank on it like they're going to be a tough team to beat. So to me, that's what building that culture is. You're going to catch and pass, pass the competition that's ahead of you.

00:38:54:06 - 00:38:59:13
Speaker 1
I think if you build the right culture like you know, you're just going to keep grinding away. It might take a time, but you're going to get there.

00:39:00:07 - 00:39:17:20
Speaker 2
And that's the difference. The people that are willing to keep going. Yeah, not fail, quit, fail, quit, fail. But if you're willing to fail, get back up, fail, get back up. That's the right culture that's going to progress to the right spots or cut you off there. But that's I think we missed the boat on that because we don't have instant success.

00:39:17:20 - 00:39:25:14
Speaker 2
We're like, oh, this is a bad culture. Oh, this is to trust the process. Go through the process. Yeah. If you trust the people that are out getting.

00:39:26:09 - 00:39:48:11
Speaker 1
And you're going to have problems, like there's going to be some players that come in and you're going to have some people that come into your organization that will be problematic. So like sometimes if you're coaching a team and you get these players and they don't buy in and it's difficult and I want to talk about this and I think what you have to do is one again, it's that 1080 ten and we'll do a whole show on the 1080 ten idea.

00:39:49:05 - 00:40:07:14
Speaker 1
If a player resist or an employee resist, buy in. I think what you need to do is you need to be more on what they're at you're asking them to buy into. So if I'm hiring somebody, this is what I want. I want to be crystal clear on what they're going to be getting themselves into. I say that to my kids all the time.

00:40:08:04 - 00:40:34:11
Speaker 1
The kids that I the teams that I coach, I even say in my classes are like, Are you sure you want to spend four months with me right now? Like, this is a lot of time. You see me every day. So like, but you're going to buy into the program. So there's four stages of buying. So as a leader, if you understand the four stages of buy in from the people that you're trying to get to buy in, it really helps you kind of paint a picture of where everybody is.

00:40:34:23 - 00:40:54:03
Speaker 1
It's like a continuum. So stage one is this is not for me, right? So we talk about let's use Cody's example of the nuts and bolts. So you might have a kid that we like. Yes. Like, for example, on our football team, we get 65 kids. That's a lot of people to get to be pulling on the same group in the same direction.

00:40:54:03 - 00:41:22:14
Speaker 1
Right. So in the stage, one is it's not for me. Stage two, that's okay for others. So I'm not going to disrespect it, but it's okay for others, but I'll keep it at arm's length. Stage threes. The key is where you suck them in and say I'll try it. Okay. So I see dropping a in the bucket. I see gravity out and they're dropping bolts and I was like, I want to be part of this bucket thing in this jar, dropping washers and bolts and nuts into a jar.

00:41:22:15 - 00:41:39:24
Speaker 1
I want to be part of this. And then the final stage in the four stages. I can't believe it. I did it any other way. It's like the athletes finally go out and say, I need a mental performance coach or maybe I need to change my diet. How did I not do it? How? Why did I wait so long?

00:41:40:08 - 00:41:44:24
Speaker 1
And that's what some people are like, is like, why resist? We're telling you this stuff works. Just do it.

00:41:45:18 - 00:42:03:23
Speaker 2
That's why I'm laughing, because I did a TV interview yesterday with Parkersburg, one of our coaches and a collegiate player, and we literally had the same same exact conversation. They said, What's the difference between you were a freshman in college and now you're going into your senior year? And he's like, The light switch is ringing, the light switch.

00:42:03:23 - 00:42:19:05
Speaker 2
He goes, You know, when I was the freshman, I thought, I just turn on the light switch whenever I want that to be a performance. It's like there's no light switch. It wasn't working, so it was now I have to fall back on my training, mental performance. I need to have all my ducks in a row, basically where I used to think that stuff wasn't for me when I was a freshman.

00:42:19:05 - 00:42:35:23
Speaker 2
Like, Oh, this minute I can play, I'll be fine. And then as a senior and he got to see that, you know, as a freshman, see the seniors that was different about them and that was the difference. They had all the pieces of the puzzle, not all of them, obviously school, but they had the pieces ready to go because they knew the performance.

00:42:36:06 - 00:42:53:12
Speaker 2
They needed to sleep. They knew what they needed to eat. They needed like they learned that process. So if we can teach our athletes at a younger age to be able to do it, and you think about that, how much more success you can have example through a four year career at the university, if you picked that up earlier instead of like not get there, I guess not for me at that time.

00:42:53:12 - 00:42:56:19
Speaker 2
Your senior like, oh, and I wish I would have I wish I could have.

00:42:56:23 - 00:43:17:01
Speaker 1
Yeah well and let's break it down where we want to talk the numbers like that. It's like, again, we said this in a couple episodes ago, it's free. And we're telling you like, here's a free tool that's going to make you great. Here's another free tool that's going to make you great. You're we've it's all out there. It's all out there.

00:43:17:01 - 00:43:37:06
Speaker 1
And why wait? So let me give perspective. I say this to football players because you don't play as many games. So we'll say like the most we've ever, we've had a season undefeated. We are 16 and no. So 16 games. You made it all the way to that. Well, it was a national championship. We played 16 games. We were 16.

00:43:37:06 - 00:44:03:20
Speaker 1
No. So let's just say on an average football season, a high school football season, you get 12 games, right? So as a senior, you get you're going to play two years of that. So maybe you get four games. So imagine if you're if you love football and you're passionate about football, forget about your freshman and sophomore year. Now the game that you love, that you're passionate about, if you're lucky and you're on a decent team, you're going to get 24 games in your high school career.

00:44:04:14 - 00:44:24:14
Speaker 1
That's not a lot. It really isn't a lot So, you know, how am I going to make the most out of it and then say, you go to college, you're going to say you make it to college program. How many games you get to play college if you don't play your freshman year, maybe you get a chance to play in your sophomore year, a couple of games, and then by your junior and senior year, you're playing well.

00:44:24:14 - 00:44:42:09
Speaker 1
Where are you going to get you're going to get another two dozen games in under your belt and then all of a sudden the game ends, you know? So it's like it's like baseball. Baseball is a tough one because in the big leagues, they play a thousand games a year. But in college and in minor sports, you're not playing that many games like you might get 60.

00:44:42:24 - 00:45:05:10
Speaker 1
And so every year those, those things count. So your opportunities are limited. If you look at it this way, if I know I have an infinite amount of at bats and a finite or not infinite, a finite amount of at bats, I want to make sure that I'm going to do exactly what I possibly can as much as I possibly can to make the most out of each and every one of those at bats.

00:45:05:24 - 00:45:24:20
Speaker 2
And keep it on the baseball. You'll talk to some of the best players ever they regret I wasted ten at bats this year. I would've had five hits out of those ten or I hit three or whatever it is, because they just mentally give up that bat more in football and you can get, you know, give up a down or two and can you give up a shift or two?

00:45:24:20 - 00:45:41:22
Speaker 2
Like when you think about you start calculating those over a season, over a four year career where they just think, Wow, I've wasted almost a season or I wasted 12 games out of 36 that I played. Yeah. So it adds up if people kind of stick with the process.

00:45:42:15 - 00:46:05:13
Speaker 1
Yeah. Wow, that's pretty cool. And I think for coaches it will get frustrating. But don't stop sharing the message of keep going, let's keep going, let's keep putting the stick with the theme of nuts and bolts. We will continue to drop nuts and bolts into the jar, and I want to do this until everybody buys in, because that's the culture.

00:46:05:13 - 00:46:21:13
Speaker 1
That's your mission, vision and your core principles, and you want everybody to buy into it, stay with it. And every year and diagnostic test, is this working? Is this a good thing? Can I improve? Can I delete? Can I add? What am I doing right?

00:46:23:01 - 00:46:23:18
Speaker 2
Roger that.

00:46:23:24 - 00:46:25:05
Speaker 1
Oh, man.

00:46:26:07 - 00:46:42:03
Speaker 2
I saw all my I talked about the shirts off the shirts now. Yeah. So these are practice shirts. So for us what I like having the guys wear these during practice during the week. You see that.

00:46:42:17 - 00:46:51:17
Speaker 1
Yeah. Yeah. And process. So let me read it for you. Is yours baseball process over outcome love it.

00:46:52:01 - 00:47:09:04
Speaker 2
So though so those of you that practice shirts during the week and what we talk about during that practice is basically that's what it is. It's about the process. So for baseball, specifically marking, talk about football or other sports, so you throw the ball away. That's part of the process. You drop a fly ball as part of the process.

00:47:09:04 - 00:47:25:17
Speaker 2
You strike during Intrasquad game. That's part of the process. So we're all aware and you build that culture of process. This is all part of the process. We're not asking you to be perfect. We're asking you to buy into the process. The success will come along the line. But again, back to culture. We have to create the culture that it's okay.

00:47:26:00 - 00:47:39:12
Speaker 2
I can't tell you the story, but it's okay to drop a fly ball. But then he I'm reaming you out for the same thing that I'm telling you. Don't worry about, but it's part of the process. You can't speak out to both sides. You're focused on that, so you have to be conscious of that. So that's how the week plays out.

00:47:39:12 - 00:47:48:07
Speaker 2
And then we have two weekends, so they're undershirts for the weekend or these next month you're going to pop up and work three or go.

00:47:48:16 - 00:47:54:03
Speaker 1
Shout out to Mizuno our sponsors for these wonderful shirts, all in, all in.

00:47:55:10 - 00:48:17:09
Speaker 2
So now against the weekend time and now we're just all if we practice the whole week, now it's all in time. So we'll do the thing, check in, everyone responds all in. And then sometimes we go through all these my classes actually at school, check in everyone's funds. I did all in and I'll say, Matthew, my you say all in all and just keep going through the line basically the players that they're all in, they're dialed in.

00:48:17:09 - 00:48:21:13
Speaker 2
We're checked in and we're going to we're going to go to war together. Basically, that's how that process works.

00:48:21:18 - 00:48:36:08
Speaker 1
I'm doing that in September, by the way. All in that's that's how we're doing attendance and my classes all in. And I think we should do it like we check in for football because you got to do that same idea. Do we do attendance because we get so many guys like who's there and who's not? It's going to be an all in.

00:48:36:23 - 00:48:57:18
Speaker 1
So I love it. And here's that's an example of you don't just have the words on a T-shirt, you're actually living it and you're you're mining it and refining it. And there you're creating a connection of from the meaning of the words in the saying, in the phrases. And they're seeing it all over because I know you have it up on the wall in your facility as well.

00:48:57:18 - 00:49:09:15
Speaker 1
Hold the process over outcome. So they're seeing it. They're living it. They're experiencing it, and then they're taking it to the game. And it's all in. Everything I've done now builds up to this, which is just so good, so good.

00:49:10:02 - 00:49:27:03
Speaker 2
You got it. And it's not going to happen the first week. I'm talking to Coach now or bosses, it's like it's not going. Don't expect that this can happen the first day, the first week, the first month. Like again, you have to buy into the process and it's not going to be easy. But if you're if you trust the process, you'll understand it.

00:49:27:03 - 00:49:31:13
Speaker 2
It's a little easier to swallow if you're willing to go through it.

00:49:31:22 - 00:49:33:22
Speaker 1
So.

00:49:33:22 - 00:49:37:02
Speaker 2
Oh, here we go. What's that? Philosophical. I can see.

00:49:37:02 - 00:50:05:20
Speaker 1
It. No normal. To me, it's like it goes back to the MVP. And I say this to people and they're like, What are you talking about? You're MVP, mission, vision, core principles. It's a launch pad. So your mission as a coach, you are developing a program. You're developing athletes in that program. Right? Your your you have a vision for kids to continue to go on and have the opportunity you're literally giving these kids the opportunity to do what they need to do to get to the next level.

00:50:05:20 - 00:50:21:13
Speaker 1
If they choose to if they choose not to, that's fine. They're going to have one hell of a good experience playing in that organization. And then through that you have your core principles. Of all the stuff that we do on a daily basis and the messages that the kids and the families are getting about being good teammates and blah, blah, blah.

00:50:21:13 - 00:50:32:13
Speaker 1
So that's your MVP and that is the most important player on your team is your MVP, but it's not necessarily a person. It's the nuts and bolts program. It's the program.

00:50:33:06 - 00:50:35:22
Speaker 2
Players of the Year. It is bigger than you. Wow.

00:50:36:18 - 00:51:00:12
Speaker 1
We're going to continue. We're going to we're going to do this again. And I am going to convince Cody to come on the show one day. So I'm like, I don't know if I have done his story justice or not, but that was awesome. And I think I'm grateful. The fact that we've had a chance to me another just a great coach you're a CGP certified great person.

00:51:00:12 - 00:51:01:20
Speaker 2
Oh right. Yeah.

00:51:02:15 - 00:51:29:07
Speaker 1
So, listeners, we want to hear from you. There's more coaches out there. Well, I hope there's more. Cody's out there. We want to hear from you. Send us a message. DM's, Instagram, Twitter or whatever. Email benchmarked, podcast at gmail.com. What's the coolest thing you've used to build your team culture in your team, in your business, in your organization, in your classroom?

00:51:29:07 - 00:51:34:08
Speaker 1
We want to know if you got some really cool ideas, and we want to share it with everyone who listens to our show.

00:51:35:06 - 00:51:35:24
Speaker 2
Well, well.

00:51:36:11 - 00:51:39:08
Speaker 1
Yeah. I'm all in, coach. I'm all.

00:51:39:08 - 00:51:39:20
Speaker 2
Yes.

00:51:40:02 - 00:51:45:19
Speaker 1
Well, that does it for this episode of Benchmark. Thanks for listening. Until next time.

00:51:46:11 - 00:51:48:09
Speaker 2
Keep crushing.