The Game Changer by Kitman Labs

Celtic FC's Head of Sports Science Jack Nayler speaks with Darcy Norman around some of the key lessons he's learned through pursuing a habit of conscious self-reflection.
Key takeaways for this podcast include:

• Tips on how to embrace complexity and focus on the factors you can control within the elite sports environment
• Why it's important to encourage a safe psychological environment between departments for continual growth
• And how to stabilise processes around data collection, communication and information sharing within your organisation.

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In this podcast performance consultant Ed Lippie shares lessons from his time building a high performance environment within AS Roma.
Key highlights include:

• How to build a true high performance organisation through the right processes, people and technology
• Creating a shared vision and transparency around your team's goals to ask critical questions about your current processes, this can then:
  • Help you to drive processes with a more focused view of success, ensuring actions are impactful.
• How to maximise technology to be truly impactful within your club
  • Being mindful when making investment in technology and clearly identifying how it will contribute to long and short-term success
• Tools to help you build a robust, successful system to mitigate against negative change and loss of institutional knowledge.

Part two of Kitman Labs Founder and CEO Stephen Smith's podcast interview with the legendary Michael Boyle.
In this podcast, Stephen interviews Mike on his 38 years of working in professional sport, including important lessons and personal philosophies that have enabled him to remain so relevant in today's rapidly changing industry.
Key highlights from this podcast include:

• Mike’s own personal development and decisions that helped him to get where he is today
• Tools and skillsets that are necessary for future performance practitioners
• How to break down department silos within a team landscape
• Further discussion from part one on the role of technology in today’s industry

This episode features legendary performance coach Michael Boyle talking to CEO and Founder of Kitman Labs, Stephen Smith.

Key takeaways from this episode include:

• The state of performance in the NHL, where it’s come from and where teams need to evolve to next to support their athletes.
• The unique challenges that coaches and performance practitioners face in the NHL, and what could be done about them.
• The place of technology in the wider industry - Is it a fad or is it really here to stay? Has it really made us undervalue the experience of our coaches and put the decision making power in the wrong hands?

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“Vision without systems thinking ends up painting lovely pictures of the future,” reflected MIT Sloan Lecturer, Peter M Senge. “It leaves no deep understanding of the forces that must be mastered to move from here to there.”

Never has this quote been more applicable in the world of business than in the business of sport. In the highly-emotive world of sport creating a vision is the easy bit. However, executing on this vision is where a lot of organisations both sporting and otherwise tend to fall short, oftentimes because they lack a logical, systematic approach that aligns the entire organisation.

In this podcast CEO and Founder of Kitman Labs, Stephen Smith interview US Head of Performance Darcy Norman about the process of systems thinking and how data can support it's successful framework. From this interview you will take away:

• An awareness of what is systems thinking and how it can support a sporting organisation
• A sense of where to begin on your own journey using systems thinking
• The important role that data plays in building this framework
• The importance of using objective data to justify new rationales and remove previous barriers created by heuristics and biases that are ever present in sport
• An understanding of what is the end goal and what does that look like

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