E193 - The inside story of Brighton's greatest season with CEO, Paul Barber
The High Performance Podcast
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4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Paul Barber is the CEO of Brighton & Hove Albion FC. In Barber's first season at the club, they recorded their highest league finish for more than 30 years. How did he achieve it and what has he done since to instill the club’s values?
He reflects on how having a diligent and thorough approach has allowed the team to effectively review mistakes and revise for the future - the focus is always how to come back stronger. Looking into the future, Paul shares what elements go into preparing the club for Europe. Having over 25 years of football experience, Paul divulges the key lessons he employs to ensure the team always achieve high performance.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, I'm J. Cumpfrey and you're listening to High Performance. This is the award-winning |
| 0:05.5 | podcast that reminds you that it's within. Every week people around the world tune into |
| 0:10.6 | us so that we can be your armour, we can be your partner, we can be your guide in a world |
| 0:15.6 | so often feels negative, divisive and confused. We really hope that these conversations remind |
| 0:21.6 | you of your power, of your potential and what all of us are capable of. So right now, |
| 0:26.7 | allow myself and Professor Damian Hughes to unlock the mind of another fascinating guest |
| 0:32.3 | so they can be your teacher. Today, this awaits you. I remember joining the club |
| 0:39.0 | 11-12 years ago after one season in the championship, back in the championship, having been |
| 0:44.1 | promoted from League 1 and talking about getting Premier League ready. You know, I said at the time, |
| 0:48.7 | you know, we were going to go on a big journey that some of you in this room were going to be |
| 0:52.4 | on that whole journey and would enjoy different parts of it and maybe not others. Some of you |
| 0:57.1 | would be on part of that journey, but then we'd need to make changes in order to progress further |
| 1:01.5 | and some of you I can just tell by looking at your faces won't be on this journey for very long |
| 1:05.2 | at all. And again, about being honest and open, that if you don't believe now and you're not prepared |
| 1:10.2 | to commit now and you're not prepared to get behind what we're trying to do, there's no point |
| 1:14.2 | you even starting the journey because all it's going to do is hold the rest of us back. |
| 1:18.2 | How resilient are you? How quickly can you overcome that big bump? What have you done to prepare for |
| 1:24.4 | that big bump? How quickly can you turn people's minds from it being a big bump to being a big |
| 1:29.4 | opportunity and how quickly can you get back on that path that you've been trying to follow? |
| 1:34.4 | For me, that's almost high performance in a nutshell. It's exactly how Roberto described it |
| 1:42.6 | happening before the game. If we do that and move the ball there, they'll do this, then we're |
| 1:47.6 | going to do that, then they'll do that, we'll do this, they'll do that and then we'll get a chance |
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