I thought UCLA and Georgetown would win, but I really didn't care. The intensity, focus, and passion of the players and coaches is exciting. Competition drives teams to perform at their best, but few do over the course of the year. So tonight we saw the "Passion for Achievement" winners.
It takes a great team leader. A coach with a team achievement system that inspires players to have exceptional attitudes, extra-effort work habits, extraordinary team skills, excellent athletic skills, and maintain exciting team chemistry. But most importantly, these four head coaches instilled a passion for achievement into their teams.
For months, probably a year, they were on a mission to win it. And they believed the would. Getting to the Final Four is a challenging mental experience as much as it is an athletic one. It takes "Best of the Best" motivation, mindsets, methods and a mission that everyone buys into, but the number of coaches who succeed at it are few.
The Florida, Ohio State, Georgetown, and UCLA basketball organizations have a passion for achievement that is seldom found in a consumer sales or service service organization. They don't have the management system that creates great teams.
As the Washington State coach, Tony Bennett said after being named The Coach of the Year in college basketball, "It wasn't me, it was the team, they bought into the system." Good behavior, a desire to grow as a person, and the team, the team, the team. "One for all, and all for one!"
The only difference in the formula is that athletic skills are replaced people skills. But the difference in the way the each part of the model is executed. Especially in the "Training." In sports you work on improving yourself and the organization daily. Everyone is focused on learning how to do their job better. Just like every team you saw in the Final Four."
How many employees in our favorite company (BTW the covert mission is on track) thought about how to better sell or serve (persuade) their customers even once, much less their entire shift? How many in any company? How many sales or service companies train daily like athletic teams? How many train their front line managers and their front line staff daily?
How many sales and service teams train themselves daily?
The organizations with a passion for achievement. The companies competing for a "Something Special" Trophy.
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