We point to the NFL Conference Champion games this weekend because it is usually the best weekend of football and one of the purest examples

Team Commitment Happens Before the Coin Toss

of team alignment we get to see in action. Most of us admire sports teams and football teams in this country have the most team alignment challenges you will likely encounter in any organization anywhere. Each game is like executing a one year strategic plan that has been  compressed into sixty minutes, where feedback, collaboration, creativity and coaching  happen in real time. When the team (all 45 players) takes to the field there can be no question about buying in or understanding the goal — which is always winning the game. The question is did they spend enough time working on their being aligned, do they know where they need to be when each play is called, do they know their role in every given situation.

Football and chess, the perfect game is a draw! There will be no draws this Sunday! There will be two champions this weekend (NFC and AFC) and these teams will have won because they were the best aligned. Sure some things will look like luck had a hand in the results of the game and we counter that with only people and teams who are the best prepared can benefit from luck.

Our company Triad West prepares corporate teams to be Aligned, let’s talk and see how we can help you. 

Dr. Joel P Martin

With the challenges so many are facing, it is important for us to remember that there are large and small victories happening everyday. And this is a big one for Kaylah.

Imagine how it would be if every child on the planet could live her or his dream. It’s not easy but that is a mission I find worth working for. Dreams are precious. What is accomplished in reality is first envisioned in the mind of the men and women that I train, coach, and consult to. Here’s to the dreamers and all who support them.

Lebron needed to know that that last shot went in the hoop and scored to win. “From 23 feet — matching his jersey number — James made a shot unlike any before in Cleveland history.” The press calls it a miracle shot and it was AND behind that shot was a lot of coaching and feedback. (What it takes to be a winning team is another hot topic.)

The score, instruments, coaches, and results are feedback. How much more effective would you be if you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt how it was that you produced the results that you did? Without feedback there is no learning. If you know this even when you don’t like what you get back, your chance of producing successful results increases dramatically. if you add a coach to this equation – that person you trust to give you input while you are in action, contemplating action, and re-acting – you accelerate knowledge, skills, and attitude adjustment. You’ll get you where you want to be faster!

As I coach my clients, whether it’s for growing a business, retaining customers, making a career change, succeeding in academia, making your personal relationships work, being a champion athlete, being a great Mom or Dad, if you want to be positively powerful, nurture and keep these beliefs about feedback:
• Feedback is a gift
• Feedback is information.
• If I don’t feel good when I get it, it might be just what I need to hear
• Feedback can save someone’s job, relationships, and life.
• When I give feedback, I am sincere and have the other person’s best interest in mind.

Nothing, not even feedback or a coach will guarantee you a win…but you’ll be a heck of a lot closer to one with it than without. Score! Read more about feedback, how to give it, how to receive it in HOW TO BE A POSITIVELY POWERFUL PERSON. by Triad West president, speaker, trainer, and coach Dr. Joel Martin.