6 | Robert Yip on Establishing Stability in Team Culture

Written By Evan Burk
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Robert Yip is a sport psychologist and strength and conditioning coach that has worked with individual athletes and team-based sports from soccer, rugby, volleyball and Gaelic games.  He currently works as a performance coach for professional esports organizations, focused on helping players, coaches, and teams reach their peak performance.

In this conversation, Evan Burk talks with Robert on his transition from traditional sports to working with professional esports organizations, the consistency in players that drives team success in all sports, and how stability in people is needed for team to build a winning culture.

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Tune into this episode to hear:

  • 1:45 | Robert's sports psychology background and his early work in Esports

  • 7:45 | What did your work in Esports teach you about working with players?

  • 10:15 | Challenges in developing soft skills with players and teams

  • 16:30 | Importance of Relationships

  • 20:15 | Creating buy-in and establishing accountability

  • 22:15 | Culture vs. Skill: "Culture is everything"

  • 27:15 | The great players want to be coached hard and held accountable

  • 35:00 | "Your best player has to be representative of the culture you are trying to build"

  • 37:20 | Team Building: Know what you want for your culture + in your players

  • 38:30 | The people that drive culture are the consistent players

  • 41:00 | Golden State Warriors + Having players be a model for your core values

  • 43:15 | What has Esports gotten right about building culture? And what have they gotten wrong?

  • 45:00 | Developing esports coaches: "There is no Bill Belichick in Esports"

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Evan Burk

Evan Burk is a speaker, former NFL coach, and podcast host who uses the sports world as his backdrop to engage audiences with thought-provoking lessons of leadership, team-building, and creating championship cultures.

Evan Burk is not your typical football coach. Despite not playing football beyond high school and no network in the coaching profession, Evan's unlikely football journey began as a 4th grade coach, where he quickly worked his way to the NFL in just 6 years, and included coaching for teams such as the Miami Dolphins, UCLA, and SMU.

After spending fifteen-plus years working with the highest-performing athletes, coaches, and teams on the planet, Coach Burk uses his unique football coaching background to teach people how to utilize the same strategies in business and life that elite players and teams use to perform at a world-class level.

Evan received his B.S. in business management from the University of Colorado, and his Master of Liberal Studies degree from Southern Methodist University. He also hosts his own weekly sports leadership podcast, The Highest Level, where he reveals how championship team cultures are built and the keys to leadership excellence at the highest level.

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