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Impactful online courses, community and development for those supporting athletes and coaches. Get the best training if you're working in performance support.
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to work for them
Speeches to inspire your business, workshops to enable your team to go to the next level, professional coaching to unlock performance.
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Proven strategies that unlock performance in you and your team.
Human performance that puts the human first so that performance can flourish
Based on applied performance science - delivered in a practical way that enables progress.
AĀ performance developmentĀ consultancy led by Dr.Ā SteveĀ Ingham
We utilise the lessons learned from the last 25 years of working in high performance sports and businesses to support and champion you, your teams and systems. We are focused on unlocking your potential.
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Steve was engaging and entertaining, while deeply knowledgeable and insightful.
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Throughout my career, Steve has made innovation and ideas useful for my preparation and performance.
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Steve's passion, experience and ability to articulate his approach was captivating and the parallels for achieving the best results from world class athletes and in business were obvious.
Supporting Champion's Philosophy
We believe Champions come from all walks of life, not just sport. We believe Champions aren't just the ones who step on the podium to receive a gold medal. We believe Champions are people with a new goal, responding to adversity, managing change, dealing with conflict, pursuing an ambition. Champions dust themselves off when they fail, make mistakes or take a wrong turn. Champions are willing to focus by deploying their resources and efforts to achieving their ambitions. In sport, business or life - we'll champion you.
We can help you set your sights high, understand your world and focus your resources for maximum performance.
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The No. 1 principle for performance methods, thinking and habits
When you're aspiring for a goal and looking to make meaningful progress towards an ambition, what is the most important principle certainly when you get started and definitely as your programme gathers momentum?
Surprisingly it's not just what you focus on, it's what you don't focus on. In this video I share a story from my own sprinting pursuits that showed how important it is to focus on doing the right things.
How cheating in my A-levels led me to realise how you can think about performance
https://youtu.be/imiEFU6FAu0
Hi, I'm Steve Ingham Sports and Performance Scientist co-founder at Supporting Champions. I have the privilege of supporting over 1000 athletes of which over 200 have gone on to win World or Olympic medals. For the last 25 years I've been fascinated by, researched and applied innovative ideas to help people succeed and now I want to share those performance strategies with you.
I help aspiring and professional Performance Science and Support Staff improve their skills, experience and mindset for working with sports performers through a range of online courses and an exclusive community hub https://www.supportingchampions.co.uk/onlinecourse
If you're working in sports performance or business and want to get support to develop your team and systems - take a look at what I offer here - https://www.supportingchampions.co.uk/speaking/
Book Recommendations
š Essentialism https://amzn.to/3ljGf7v (Amazon)
š Will it make the boat go faster https://amzn.to/3mvrY7d (Amazon)
Find me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ingham_steve
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How cheating led me to realise how you can deconstruct performance!
How cheating in my A-levels led me to realise how to deconstruct performance: An introduction to performance determinants
āI cheated in my A-levelsā,
(Donāt cheat in your A-levels kids, itās wrong and youāll probably get caught. Instead take the lessons from me and apply them to your own performance).
I wasn't the best behaved when I was a teenager, and I'm not proud of cheating in an exam. Though actually this isnāt a big admission. I wrote about this in How to Support a Champion and Iāve owned up to my teacher to my misdemeanours and have shared the story several times in public presentations - so Iāve come clean!
The experience of cheating in my exams, getting away with it, being shocked that I didnāt get a higher score - led to me start thinking VERY differently about performance.
In this instance the performance was an exam, how you go about deconstructing the āeventā, how you can approach performance with confidence by understanding the important elements and developing strategies to address weaknesses and build strengths.
In later videos I will share more about the thinking and methods required to develop performance determinants models and the principles that can enable you to go from mediocre standards to excellent delivery.
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Hi, I'm Steve Ingham Sports and Performance Scientist co-founder at Supporting Champions. I have the privilege of supporting over 1000 athletes of which over 200 have gone on to win World or Olympic medals. For the last 25 years I've been fascinated by, researched and applied innovative ideas to help people succeed and now I want to share those performance strategies with you.
I help aspiring and professional Performance Science and Support Staff improve their skills, experience and mindset for working with sports performers through a range of online courses and an exclusive community hub https://www.supportingchampions.co.uk/onlinecourse
If you're working in sports performance or business and want to get support to develop your team and systems - take a look at what I offer here - https://www.supportingchampions.co.uk/speaking/
Find me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ingham_steve
And Instagram https://www.instagram.com/steveandingham -
Create the conditions for and develop the skills of giving feedback
If you follow this example and put these steps in place - you will certainly upgrade the way you give feedback, help others and improve team performance.
Are you in a position to help others improve their performance? Maybe you're paid to do that as a manager or leader. I would argue we're all responsible for helping and developing others around us. If we're not willing to do so then it tends to be because we want to avoid an uncomfortable conversation or that we lack the skill to give feedback well (or you can't be bothered or you don't care - but I'm guessing that's not you). In this video I share a case example of someone who I've been coaching, Sarah, (name has been changed), who wanted to work on how she developed her team members through feedback.
00:00 Sarah's goal and why she was reluctant to engage in feedback
02:14 Agreeing how you will give feedback
03:21 Proactively encourage reflection
04:28 Leading with positives first (the feedback burger)
07:10 Aligning to norms and objectives
08:51 Feedback is often emotional
10:30 Feedback is a gift
11:27 Be really clear
14:27 The bronze, silver and gold of how you phrase feedback
Hi, I'm Steve Ingham Sports and Performance Scientist co-founder at Supporting Champions. I have the privilege of supporting over 1000 athletes of which over 200 have gone on to win World or Olympic medals. For the last 25 years I've been fascinated by, researched and applied innovative ideas to help people succeed and now I want to share those performance strategies with you.
I help aspiring and professional Performance Science and Support Staff improve their skills, experience and mindset for working with sports performers through a range of online courses and an exclusive community hub https://www.supportingchampions.co.uk/onlinecourse
If you're working in sports performance or business and want to get support to develop your team and systems - take a look at what I offer here - https://www.supportingchampions.co.uk/speaking/
Find me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ingham_steve -
The gold, silver and bronze of asking for feedback
If you want to improve your individual performance, your projectās performance or your teamās performance - feedback is essential. You canāt expect, no matter how brilliant you are, that your view of the world or the quality of your work is going to be the best one. Gathering perspectives from other people is therefore of paramount importance to refine your performance.
Despite this I often see the skill and willingness to give feedback is low in teams, primarily because it can be hard, emotionally, to give and receive feedback. People would often prefer to avoid the uncomfortable conversation rather than cause upset.
But what if you were on the front-foot and asked for feedback? We know that this approach changes the dynamic to put you in the driving seat and makes it easier for you and for the person delivering it.
In this video I share the bronze, silver and gold level of feedback and a top tip for culturing feedback in a team.
If you like this video consider subscribing and watching this video on performance debriefing https://youtu.be/LuW4Uz-Qgko
Hi, I'm Steve Ingham Sports and Performance Scientist co-founder at Supporting Champions. I have the privilege of supporting over 1000 athletes of which over 200 have gone on to win World or Olympic medals. For the last 25 years I've been fascinated by, researched and applied innovative ideas to help people succeed and now I want to share those performance strategies with you.
I help aspiring and professional Performance Science and Support Staff improve their skills, experience and mindset for working with sports performers through a range of online courses and an exclusive community hub https://www.supportingchampions.co.uk/onlinecourse
If you're working in sports performance or business and want to get support to develop your team and systems - take a look at what I offer here - https://www.supportingchampions.co.uk/speaking/
Find me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ingham_steve
And Instagram https://www.instagram.com/steveandingham
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