Phil Glasgow Recap: High Performance Teams

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In the last episode, we had the amazing Phil Glasgow on the show. Phil is a fellow Northern Irishman, so good luck to you guys. Trying to decipher what we were saying. Hopefully you all understood us. But it was an incredible conversation and I would urge you to go back and listen to the full episode because he shared some gold. He's such an incredible individual. He's worked in high performance sport for 20 years, supporting teams and athletes at major events, including three Olympic Games, two Commonwealth Games, and the Rugby World Cup. He works with the Irish rugby team and he also has a PhD. Look, he shared some really insightful things around building high performance teams and what high performance looks like and the whole idea of mastery. He was very passionate about mastery. And I'm a big believer that mastery is a lifelong pursuit. It's this pursuit of excellence, this pursuit of setting yourself a higher standard across all areas of your life and seeking how to get there, how to reach there. The first takeaway from our conversation was this. Leadership is a group of people working together to do good things and someone helping to chart that course.

And the key thing there is it's a group of people working together. It's not a title, it's not an individual, but leadership is, you know, someone charting the course for a group of people working together to do good things. Where have you seen that in your life? You know, I see that right now in Ukraine, talking to Roman Shuler about two months ago, who's a former lawyer with Marchenko Partners in Kiev. He's now fighting for freedom in Ukraine. I see great leadership there. I see someone charting a course that being the leader of Ukraine and a group of people working together to do good things, they're doing even more than that. They're working together to. To unite the people of their country and to get the freedom that they deserve. In your life, what course are you charting for others? Are you a parent? If you are, you're charting a course for your kids.

Are you a team leader?

Are you an organizational community organizer? If so, you are taking a group of people and you're helping them work together to do good things, and you're charting the course the vision is yours to set.

Another really fascinating takeaway. It was simple but powerful. Greatness cannot be achieved alone. What a great quote. Thank you, Phil, for that. Greatness cannot be achieved alone. I often ask this when I'm training organizations, teams, or running my high performance program. I'll say, hands up, who's Ever achieved something that they're really proud of and they done it absolutely by themselves. Now every now and then, someone will pop their hand up. Had one person pop their hand up and said, hey, I'm a world champion boxer. I say, okay, that's amazing. Like, high five. I love it. Now take me back to when you started boxing. I started when I was seven. Okay, great. Did you box in your bedroom by yourself? No, no, no. I went to like a boxing club and. Okay, who took you to the boxing club? Oh, dad drove me. Okay. And when you got there, did you just beat the bag and you became world class? No, no, no, no. I had a coach and multiple coaches and trainers and. Okay. And so did you truly become a world champion by yourself? The answer is always no. Greatness cannot be achieved alone. Everything we do is through people, with people, and for the people.

Another great takeaway. Take time to really understand what you're doing and become a student of your craft. To me, that's almost a definition of mastery, isn't it? Take time to really understand what you're doing and become a student your craft. Look, people wind me up a little bit and laugh and probably point to about how fascinated I am with leadership books, leadership events, programs, interviewing great leaders. I'm okay with that because I really want to understand leadership. I want to understand what good leadership looks like. I also want to understand what terrible leadership looks like because that's equally as important. And I truly believe I am a student of leadership and I am committed to always being a student of leadership. I'm not a master of leadership. In fact, I don't think there are any masters. The late, great Nelson Mandela was a student of leadership. We look to him as a master. But I can tell you what he studied, never endingly. He read, he asked questions, he sought counsel. To me, you know, that's really what it's about is continually having that learner's mindset. The last takeaway was the thing you do becomes an extension of you, but it doesn't define who you are. This is really fascinating and I was really delighted that Phil brought this to the table because I was sitting, having lunch with a friend who plays for New Zealand rugby team and he's been playing there a long time and his whole identity is wrapped around sport and rugby. When people see him on the streets, they automatically think of the New Zealand rugby team. Now we chatted about games going well and not going well because inevitably you're going to lose some games, right? Well, he said, look, James, at the End of the day, I am more than rugby. It's a game. I am more than rugby. I'm a dad, I'm a partner, I'm a son, I'm a brother, I'm an uncle, I'm a cousin. And I just find that so refreshing that someone of his stature, of his success and the position that he's in, that he can actually see, hey, rugby. And my career is an extension of me. It's not who I am. And all too often, I feel that we can get caught up in the identity of what we do, and it becomes who we are. I certainly had that, I guess you could call an identity crisis with drumming. I was drumming from 8 or 9 years old and was very fortunate to become a world champion quite young and won seven world titles and built a business, a percussion retail business, and taught at a private school and developed a program and ran the national youth program. And it was drumming was everything that did. And I became James the drummer in my mind. And I guess externally that became true as well. And when I started to transition careers, that was a big identity struggle for me because I had actually let the thing that I did kind of define who I was, and it held me back. And as soon as I could realize actually drumming was an extension of me, I am not drumming. It just helped in life so much. So I want to wish you nothing but the best in your pursuit of mastery. And I'd love you just to take a moment to define what is your craft? What is the thing that you're passionate about? Is it leading others? Is it entrepreneurship? Is it tech? Is it sport? Is it parenthood? What's your thing? And I challenge you in 2023 to really understand.

What you're doing and become a student of your craft. If that's one thing you do in 2023, moving into it, that'd be phenomenal. But for now, get out there and lead your life on purpose.