Does your team overachieve?

As a follow up to yesterdays email, I pose the question ... does your team overachieve? I am not talking about the number of games you say you won. If you have the best talent in the league, did you win the league? In pro sports if you have the highest payroll, it is expected that you win the championship.

Contrast this situation with the coach at the bottom of the league who does not have talent. He takes what he has and overachieves. They may only win a few games, but the organization knows that the team overachieved. You owe your players the opportunity to win every game. You must practice and gameplan to enable the team to have a chance to win every game. Further, do you enter practice everyday with a plan to give the team knowledge, techinique, and methodology to integrate both? If you don't, regardless of talent you are a poor coach and a poor human being. Players are there each day looking to their leader. They will eventually take on your personality ... for better or worse.

At the conclusion of the season ask these questions to yourself:
1. Did your team overachieve?
2. Was your team able to dictate the tempo of the game? (when you have less talent, the game must be played on your terms.

I hope this completes yesterdays blog for the readers- much like we ask our players ... come prepared to win everyday and concentrate the entire time you are there.
DD