E188: Phil Giles - The man who helped build Brentford FC
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4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Phil Giles is the current Director of Football at Brentford Football Club, responsible for overseeing player recruitment, scouting and youth development. With over a decade of experience at Brentford, Phil shares how to have honest conversations with staff and players, what it means to be a good Director and how to share bad news with a team, among much more.
In this episode, Phil shares the things he does to make Brentford different to any other club. He discusses the qualities he looks for in players and how he determines if they will be the right fit. They discuss his relationships with risk, positivity and humility. Phil divulges the killer questions he asks his players.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, I'm Jay Cumpfrey and you're listening to High Performance. The award-winning podcast |
| 0:06.1 | that reminds you it's within. Greetings to our listeners right across the world who tune |
| 0:10.8 | into us weekly so that we can be your armour, your partner, your guide in a world that |
| 0:16.0 | often feels so negative, so divisive and confused. Look, we really hope that these conversations |
| 0:21.8 | remind you of your power, your potential and what we're all capable of. So right now, |
| 0:27.9 | allow Professor Hughes and myself to unlock the mind of another fascinating guest so they |
| 0:33.4 | can be your teacher. Today, this awaits you. You know, when you talk about High Performance |
| 0:38.9 | Environment and trying to just be better every day, when your owner is so aligned to that |
| 0:43.3 | idea and he's not judging the results himself, he's judging the underlying performances and |
| 0:48.0 | what's happening on the ground day to day. It means that actually people can be confident |
| 0:52.7 | and actually be faithful to that belief, which I think a lot of us believe is probably |
| 0:57.4 | the right way to go to try and forget about the results, to try and look at the underlying |
| 1:00.9 | performances. Is there a moment in any business where talent just trumps everything else |
| 1:06.5 | and you just want that guy in the building because he's Christian Erickson and I can do amazing |
| 1:10.4 | things with a football? Do you sometimes just forget about your values just to get the quality |
| 1:15.2 | in the door? No, never. Had he been in some sense a bad character, |
| 1:19.0 | isn't that binary sense? He should resist all temptation to bring them in. It will be a disaster. |
| 1:24.6 | How much are you rolling in the look place? And I had to think it and said 80 percent. 80 percent. |
| 1:31.5 | 80 percent look. I think it's a lot higher than people would give a credit for how much |
| 1:35.9 | look is involved in what we see in football and how much look plays apart and shaping results |
| 1:41.3 | and shaping careers and shaping decisions. So many things that need to go right for you to be |
| 1:46.3 | successful or can easily go wrong for things to not work out the way you want. |
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