In our Season 1 finale, we discuss future plans for Benchmarked, the Coaches and how applying our own techniques has helped us navigate everyday leadership situations and grow as fathers, husbands and coaches.

What we cover: 

• For your athletes and people that you lead to understand what you want from them. You first have to understand them.
• We explore the idea of parents, coaches, and teachers raising young people and athletes to be prepared for life’s challenges - not necessarily the next level of sporting competition.
• What is a good age to start instilling independent communication for young players.
• How good communication can solve many “playing time” issues with players and parents
• Assuming positive intent from people until their intentions are made more clear
• Losing useful messages amongst the noise of coaches and parents who are yellers and tellers.

We want to hear from you!
Where are you in your leadership journey? What's your WHY?
How are you chasing your 1%?
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 Coach Bobby Magallanes has been developing and refining his leadership and coaching for over 30 years. He is a leader whose journey is as rich as it gets. He joined the Atlanta Braves coaching staff as their assistant hitting coach in 2021 and was part of their World Series Championship run. This year not only are the Braves well in the hunt for another World Series title, but Coach Bobby Magallanes was also part of this year’s All Star Coaching staff in LA. Coach Mags is a lifelong learner who has a Masters degree in performance psychology and has a passion for coaching, leadership and mental performance (most importantly family). 

In this episode:

• The difference between internal and external focus
• There is no bad age to start with mental performance training
• Mental Performance lends itself to all aspects of life, not just in sport but in business, personal life and school
• As coaches, leaders, fathers and husbands it’s ok to not be ok but admitting you are not ok is the first step towards improvement.
• Finding your WHY in life - your purpose - your meaning
• Have your own mentors who you can count on to help and guide you.
• Find ways to get yourself more “life jackets” for when you are barely treading water
• Athletes who start applying the mental performance part of the game can take their abilities to new heights
• Having a growth mindset to expand your skills, both physically and mentally.
• Being stubborn about your success. Have a goal and let nothing stop you from achieving it.

Connect with Bobby:
https://www.instagram.com/magallanesbobby

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With us for this episode is a very special, talented and successful athlete who has been a standout on both the national and world stages. As a beach volleyball star, Sophie Bukovec is a two time All American, a three time NCAA Champion with the USC Trojans, a U21 World Champion, and has just recently returned from the World Championships in Rome with a hard earned  silver medal. To top it all off she is also a Team Mizuno ambassador and founder of the Northern Elite, an elite Beach Volleyball Training program. 

Interview Highlights:

• Working through adversity at the World Championships
• Believing in the "Process"
• Falling in love with training
• Being comfortable in your own skin as an elite athlete
• Saying no to modeling to be true to herself and her love of sports
• Thriving in a competitive environment
• The chess game of volleyball
• Dealing with momentum shifts
• Learning about recruiting as a young athlete

Connect with Sophie:
Sophie on Instagram
The Northern Elite

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In this episode of Benchmarked we welcome Warrant Officer Scott Coulter. With a long military career and degree in Psychology Scott shares with us how to create situations where people can be successful and how to expect more from ourselves. Scott walks us through an incredible physical transformation as a teenager that came from a place of strength and self honesty. He teaches us how to overcome personal victimhood. He also shares with us stories of his military service in Afghanistan, Nepal and other hot spots that make Coach Mess and Coach Larocque reshape their global perspectives on patriotism, war and the people it affects.

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In this episode we are joined by Joe Tolles. As an athlete, leader, and business owner Joe helps us break down what it takes to empower people to become the very best versions of themselves.  Joe has had a long career in professional hockey and CrossFit. His mission as a gym owner is to offer the best possible service aimed at helping people of all fitness levels improve their quality of life. His community-based strength and conditioning fitness programs have been proven effective and deliver unparalleled results. He is a world-class coach that genuinely care about supporting his athletes!

Connect with Joe:
http://northshore.training
Instagram: North Shore Athletic Club

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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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Our guest in this episode is Blake Sloan who has won an NCAA  Championship with Michigan, A Stanley Cup with the Dallas Stars and a Word Championship Bronze with Team USA. Blake takes us trough his journey through sports, championships and what it takes to be a great teammate.

Show Notes:
-Winning Hockey's Humanitarian award
-Growing up around sport
-Championship ingredients
-Leadership is the ability to influence others in a negative or positive way
-How much better can I get?
-How can I contribute and be impactful on a daily basis
-Adapting leadership to the player not the other way around
-A multisport approach to raising successful young athletes
-1996 Michigan hockey championship - People win championships
-The Michigan Goal - Goal of the decade - Being on the ice when it happened and witnessing history
-Character has nothing to do with winning games - but everything to do with winning championships
-Buy into what the vision and accountability to each other wins
-What is it to be “a good pro” a good professional athlete and teammate
-Be “coachable” and seek feedback
-Make yourself one of those people who others want to play with and be teammates with
-Be memorable in what you are doing

Connect with Blake:
Twitter: @bsloan2711

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Head Coach Liz Keady Norton of the Dartmouth College Women's Hockey Program (and recently named Assistant Coach for 2023 USA U18 Worlds) is a leader who has successfully woven  leadership, motherhood, and fitness into her Ivy League and ECAC coaching career. She takes us through her journey into taking over this historic program and provides insights into powerful leadership and coaching practices.

What we talk about in this episode:
-how to be a standout recruit
-what most coaches look for in potential student athletes and should look for to build a successful program
-how good fitness habits play a role in making yourself ready to play
-establishing a culture of success through communication and trust
-finding balance and staying grounded with family
-Process over outcome when building team dynamics for the long term
-Core leadership values rooted in growth and empowerment of the athlete
-Coaching should be regarded as the service industry
-The difference between being "interested" vs. "committed"
-How good humans make good teammates
-The importance of body language
-Getting the most out of your players by giving them a defined role to play

Check out the Institute of Performance and Fitness:
https://ipfitness.com
https://www.instagram.com/ipfnews/

We want to hear from you!
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