I’m really excited about today’s Podcast because we’re delving into the world of Sports. This week we have a professional basketball coach, elite player, club founder, and PE teacher Pete Daines (or Mr Daines as our kids know him as!).

Pete set-up the Yateley Silverbacks Basketball Club 11 years ago and in that time the club has won five promotions, two League titles and four Play-off Championships with the adult sides and 8 various titles with the Junior squads. The club has mixed, male and female teams, of all ages starting from U8’s Diddy Dunkers. It’s a wonderful community club that’s like an extended family, and 'I don't work Fridays' are proud sponsors of.

Pete was also Great Britain U18 Team Manager who took his team to 6 European Championships, coached the South of England Youth squads, is a former National League player and a current BE registered referee and coach. He’s recently been selected for the GB over 45s national squad as a player.

Remarkably, this is all in his spare time, because he works full time as Head of Boys Sport at Yateley Manor, where every Friday afternoon he is my boss as I volunteer in helping his department out with Sports lessons and matches, so I get to help coach my 9-year-old twins (and learn an awful lot from Pete and his team).

Listen to this Podcast to learn:

- Managing multiple stakeholders & their expectations. 

- How teams take on the personality of their coach and considerations around this. 

- Teaching what's in front of you and adapting. 

- The importance of getting to know every single individual / child & getting the best out of each one.

- Why seeing with your eyes is more important than any statistic.

- The importance of learning from every single experience, every single day, regardless of how long you've been coaching or teaching for.

- Why sport is one big life lesson. 

- Pete's number 1 thing he'd define as a leader