James Scouller on The “STaR Coach Show” Podcast

Meg Rentschler recently invited me onto her STaR Coach Show podcast and it went live on 5 February 2025. It’s episode 428.

You can find a recording of our podcast interview on several platforms. Apple, Spotify and YouTube are the most well known, but Listen Notes and Boomplay have it as well. You can also listen to it on Meg’s own STaR Coach show website.

About the STaR Coach Show

Since 2008, Meg Rentschler, who’s based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Texas, has been teaching and mentoring professionals drawn to the power of coaching. Meg sees coaching as not just a profession, but a way of thinking, being and doing.

The STaR Coach Show originated from Meg’s desire to help professional coaches learn from those who’ve walked the path before them, to connect them with trusted resources, to support their journey in building their coaching practices, and to challenge them to continually hone their skills.

That’s why the show is dedicated to sharing strategies, tools and other resources to help professional coaches build thriving businesses while growing leaders and their organisations through coaching principles.

Conversation Content

We mostly discussed the ideas in book #1 of my trilogy, How To Build Winning Teams Again And Again although we started with the bigger picture.

Meg asked these questions:

• What’s this Winning Teams trilogy really all about?
• What inspired you to write not one, not two, but three books on this subject and turn it into a trilogy?
• When you are coaching teams, how much of your time is devoted to teaching the concepts in Book 1?
• What is a real team and how does it differ from a performance group?
• Let’s dive into the concept of a pseudo team that you’ve mentioned twice now — what is it?
• Team building isn’t bad, but it’s not the be-all-and-end-all … is that accurate?
• What advice would you give to coaches on how to identify or assess what they’re walking into as they approach their new team coaching assignment?
• Let’s get into your team psychology model of Commit–Combust–Combine … what the heck is that all about?
• We’ve got limited time today, so what’s the one thing you want to wrap up with?

I hope you enjoy the podcast. More important, I hope you find it useful.