It was a couple years ago with my daughter starting on her soccer team, where I was confronted by what many are calling the "Millennial culture". The culture that requires all participants to be rewarded equally with a gentle "High Five" no matter the outcome, re-enforcing that they are a Champ"!
I'm not the guy that believes that athletes, students or co-workers need to be screamed at in order to obtain their best efforts, quite the contrary. I believe that the more that a leader does this, the more it is expected. I like to find myself right in the middle, right between the stubborn leader that doesn't give in to demands and whining because you the person does it, and the no nonsense leader requiring self introspection and accountability..
In the "Millennial culture" the soccer coach rotated the players from position to position to allow all the players a fair opportunity to score a goal. This is not fair at all, based on the team make up and positions played, sometimes players stood an unfair advantage because the best midfield player was creating the opportunities for some players and while in goal keeping duty, not creating the same opportunities. But this is another topic and discussion about how life is NOT FAIR!
The problem I said to my wife and the coach is that you are only rewarding the players that score a goal. You are not showing the players that didn't score that their role in the team was valuable too! In a team, you need to assume your position and you need to assume your role. The "Team" is better when you fulfill your role and play your best position. In the same way that the Team benefits from your successful role implementation, they too suffer the consequence of you not doing your part and fulfilling your role in the team. Staying with soccer, if all the players went on the offense to score, who would defend the other teams offense? In this situation you better have very good goal scorers as you will have many goals scored against you.
In business two pairs of feet can walk further than one pair, and three more than two. In order to be in a successful, profitable business, you will need to build a Team. The best part of a Team is that you will have team mates that bring different skills and strengths to the table. Making each Team mate do the same job at the same pace will not allow your Team and business to grow, it will frustrate those people that can move quickly and are particularly strong. The problem with frustrating these people is that they are the ones that could add the greatest value to the companies growth, instead they will leave within 6 months looking for the challenge that they need.
Don't get offended with your strengths and Team position and roles, remember that the whole team wins at the end, not just the individuals!
I'm not the guy that believes that athletes, students or co-workers need to be screamed at in order to obtain their best efforts, quite the contrary. I believe that the more that a leader does this, the more it is expected. I like to find myself right in the middle, right between the stubborn leader that doesn't give in to demands and whining because you the person does it, and the no nonsense leader requiring self introspection and accountability..
In the "Millennial culture" the soccer coach rotated the players from position to position to allow all the players a fair opportunity to score a goal. This is not fair at all, based on the team make up and positions played, sometimes players stood an unfair advantage because the best midfield player was creating the opportunities for some players and while in goal keeping duty, not creating the same opportunities. But this is another topic and discussion about how life is NOT FAIR!
The problem I said to my wife and the coach is that you are only rewarding the players that score a goal. You are not showing the players that didn't score that their role in the team was valuable too! In a team, you need to assume your position and you need to assume your role. The "Team" is better when you fulfill your role and play your best position. In the same way that the Team benefits from your successful role implementation, they too suffer the consequence of you not doing your part and fulfilling your role in the team. Staying with soccer, if all the players went on the offense to score, who would defend the other teams offense? In this situation you better have very good goal scorers as you will have many goals scored against you.
In business two pairs of feet can walk further than one pair, and three more than two. In order to be in a successful, profitable business, you will need to build a Team. The best part of a Team is that you will have team mates that bring different skills and strengths to the table. Making each Team mate do the same job at the same pace will not allow your Team and business to grow, it will frustrate those people that can move quickly and are particularly strong. The problem with frustrating these people is that they are the ones that could add the greatest value to the companies growth, instead they will leave within 6 months looking for the challenge that they need.
Don't get offended with your strengths and Team position and roles, remember that the whole team wins at the end, not just the individuals!
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