{"id":11116,"date":"2022-07-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/?post_type=article&#038;p=11116"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:11:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:11:33","slug":"epp-industry-insight-series-developing-a-learning-culture-at-the-texas-rangers","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/epp-industry-insight-series-developing-a-learning-culture-at-the-texas-rangers\/","title":{"rendered":"EPP Industry Insight Series: Developing a Learning Culture at the Texas Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- blocks\/hero-editorial -->\n<!-- inc\/hero-editorial -->\n<div class=\"hero es-hero__editorial hero--var-1\" role=\"banner\">\n\t<div class=\"hero__image\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-1399426158-scaled.jpg);\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"hero__overlay grad-overlay 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src=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/epp-logo-new-black.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6>\u201cFolks coming into the organisation, whatever their career aspirations may be or their vision of leadership, we want to help them find that, whatever is genuine and authentic to them.\u201d<\/h6>\n<p>Ben Baroody, the Director of Leadership Development &amp; Mental Performance at the Texas Rangers of Major League baseball, is discussing career and leadership development opportunities at the club in this latest edition of the Elite Performance Partners Industry [EPP] Insight Series.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eppglobal.com\/\">EPP<\/a> are a performance consultancy and search firm highly regarded across sport and, for this episode, EPP\u2019s Founding Partner Dave Slemen and Managing Partner Anna Edwards posed the questions to Ben, who spoke of the Rangers\u2019 processes and practices that enable the advancement of players and staff alike.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the agenda were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How Ben and the Rangers make time for those leadership and career development opportunities [8:30];<\/li>\n<li>The club\u2019s efforts to set people up to succeed by creating a development space [10:30];<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Soft\u2019 skills and the Rangers\u2019 ability to track the development of players and staff [23:00];<\/li>\n<li>The renewed emphasis on the mental side of performance in the training environment [29:20].<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/id\/87627863#darkOrLight-Light&amp;shownotes-ffffff&amp;download-ffffff&amp;subscribe-ffffff&amp;share-ffffff&amp;shownotesBackground-444444&amp;downloadBackground-003366&amp;subscribeBackground-fb8c00&amp;shareBackground-1976d2\" width=\"100%\" height=\"138px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dave Slemen <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaveSlem\">Twitter<\/a> | <a 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