Why Top-Down Culture Always Fails with Steve Head
About this episode
Steve Head discusses the importance of grassroots values and the limitations of traditional motivation techniques for elite performers.
How do you unite a team of elite athletes who all have full-time day jobs, zero financial incentive, and have just endured a pandemic-delayed tournament cycle? And more importantly, how do you do it in a way that actually wins a World Cup? In this inspiring archive episode of Connected Leadership Bytes, Andy Lopata sits down with inspirational speaker and performance coach Steve Head. Steve was the "1%" mindset coach behind the England Wheelchair Rugby League team’s stunning 2022 World Cup victory. Steve reveals the counter-intuitive truth about motivating elite performers (hint: they don't need motivation) and shares the exact, grassroots process he used to help the team define their core values. This is a masterclass in ditching the "eye-roll" of corporate buzzwords. Discover why the most powerful values are written in messy Sharpie on a flip chart, launched by the team rather than the boss, and sustained by a culture of absolute selflessness and sacrifice. What You Will Learn In This Episode The Motivation Myth: Why you cannot "motivate" elite performers who have already overcome immense adversity (like losing limbs in combat), and what they actually need from a coach instead…
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