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Michael DEredita on RowingChat
Category: Sports & Recreation
Duration: 00:58:24
Publish Date: 2019-04-14 13:00:04
Description: RowingChat with Michael D'Eredita who is currently the High Performance Director of the Portugese rowing team. Michael has a background in cognitive psychology as well as a lifelong passion for rowing. He helped found a Finnish University rowing programme and now commutes to Portugal for his work. Timestamps to the interview: 0.00 Background in rowing 03:00 Link between rowing and organizational behaviour 07:00 Types of leadership style in a rowing club; politics in a rowing club 13:00 Starting a rowing program from scratch 15:00 What does a "difference maker" do? Be transformational before you are transactional 20:00 Start discussions with the metrics of success 22:00 Being the Portugese national team high performance Director - the job started in Finland 25:00 What does a High Performance director do? 28:00 Try to centre around the athletes so their experience is continuous 34:00 Centralised training system based around Luis Teixeira the President of the Federation http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/33141/teixeira-luis 37:00 Does decentralised training work? 41:00 Can a coach "change" the people she coaches? 48:00 The uniqueness of rowing and collective experience Thank you to our sponsors. You can help keep RowingChat going by visiting our sponsors websites www.rowing.chat/sponsors This month RowingChat is supported by www.rowtours.com and Will Ruth's book Rowing Stronger www.rowing.chat/sponsors
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