The Successful Culture that turns Losing Teams into Championship Teams

Whether Australian Rugby, professional American football, baseball, or the competitive business world, the recipe for making a 180° performance is effectively the same playbook.

The Hartford: 8 Keys to Success 

1. Keep Detailed Records. ...
2. Analyze Your Competition. ...
3. Understand the Risks and Rewards. ..
4. Be Creative. ...
5. Stay Focused on Your Goals. ...
6. Provide Great Customer Service. ...
7. Be Consistent.
8. Prepare to make some sacrifices

The Hartford

To turn the slumping  Australian Rugby team around...

As a group, they agreed to put the team first. Every player put the interests of the team ahead of themselves. The All Blacks also made fundamental changes on how they practiced, how to stay fresh, how ownership of decisions transferred from coaches to players, and how they worked together as a high performing unit. Everything they did was up for reinvention." (Forbes )

Bill Parcels turned around several NFL Teams 

"I try to appeal to the players’ passion for achievement and winning, but I’m also very clear that if they don’t give the team what it needs, then I’m going to find someone else who will. I tell them, “If you don’t want to play in the championship games and you don’t want to achieve at the highest level, then I don’t want you here, because that’s what I’m trying to do. I am not trying to finish fourth.” Leaders can do everything right with their teams and still fail if they don’t deliver their message to each member as an individual...

If you want to get the most out of people, you have to apply pressure—that’s the only thing that any of us really responds to."  Harvard Business

Baseball (according to Harvard Business)

"Baseball’s most successful franchises commit to acting on their data and analytics. The data’s not there to justify or ratify existing decisions. Data must be actively and measurably used to learn what’s better or best. Analytics should clearly impact game-day decisions and choices.' Baseball

Making it Personal (bringing it home)

Being a school teacher is very much the same approach as being a coach.  Success for both ultimately are obtained by the business model approach.  

1. ORGANIZE Success starts with a lesson/game/practice plan

2. Analytics from Test/gamess determine what adjustments are needed.

4. Each level of test/competition brings risk/reward, 

5. Customer Service is finding ways to correct individual weakness by getting the attention needed for the student/player in a timely way.

6 Goals- Should Be clearly known and established, Reiterate goals enough for memory commitment.  

7. Consistency will keep students/players in good habits that help maintain the proper culture. 

8. Sacrifices are expected.  The  commitment to ensure 1 to 7 are being achieved will mean sacrifices for the team and from the team. Players or students will surely put an extra time and effort in order to make the outcomes improve. 

The bottom line is to be the best team, no matter which type, you must be willing to commit to the "team first" attitude and approach.