The world's best performance coach explains how he transforms teams

Eat Sleep Work Repeat

Bruce Daisley

Management, Workplace Culture, Science, Work, Business, Culture, Social Sciences

4.7 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

I’m joined again by new cohosts Ellen C Scott and Matthew Cook.

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Owen Eastwood is the most in-demand team performance coach in the world

He's earned that reputation by delivering break-through results with a diverse range of teams from Gareth Southgate’s England team and the England women’s team, to the senior leadership team of NATO. His former clients represent an elite range of teams who have gone on to achieve incredible victories. We wanted to understand how he did it.

What does he say? What does he ask?

Eastwood’s approach is consistent. By zooming out and pointing our fleeting contribution to legacy he urges teams to think about their ‘Us’ story. For me this suggests that what he’s actually doing is emphasising a powerful shared identity. In my mind I would see this as activating a visceral bond of community, he chooses to label it as ‘belonging’. That distinction ends up feeling semantic when presented with what his approach achieves.

This week on the podcast I’m joined by new co-hosts Ellen Scott and Matthew Cook as we talk to Owen and debate purpose, identity and belonging.

It’s a truly brilliant listen.

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0:00.0	If you run a restaurant in London, you need to know about Square.
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0:10.1	It also connects your front and back of house, which you nail every order and Square's reporting feature can help you save hours on accounting every week.
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0:26.1	Money Regulations 2011.
0:27.7	Registered reference number 9, psychology and life.
0:43.0	I'm Bruce Dasely.
0:44.0	I'm Ellen Scott.
0:45.0	I'm Maccock.
0:46.0	Can you make people feel like their work matters
0:49.0	to the extent that they end up working and acting in a way that feels more motivated and is more committed.
0:54.8	Sometimes firms set about trying to create purpose.
0:57.8	Today's guest I think does something far more effective.
1:01.7	Let's think about purpose first. I wonder if either of you have ever worked in a
1:06.7	company that has boasted about having a great purpose or talked a lot about purpose.
1:13.0	What's your view of companies having purpose?
1:16.0	I have never worked anywhere that's talked about purpose
1:20.0	or having like a bigger story or anything like that and I think I really wanted that.
1:26.0	I really thought that it would be great if my bosses did talk about that and we had a bigger
1:30.0	kind of meaning to what we were doing and we were all working towards the same
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