Team Motivation/Corporate Picture
- How do I embrace the team concept - the team image?
- How do I win when people around me win?
- How do I help create contagious enthusiasm within the team?
Self Motivation
- How do I strive for and achieve personal excellence?
- How do I stay committed to my personal goals?
- How do I condition myself to be professionally tough – better than my competitor?
Team Building
- Recruiting and selecting the right players
- Inspiring, guiding, and motivating team members to put "team" in front of individual interests
- Managing and coaching team members to work efficiently and in synchronicity
- Identifying "diamonds in the rough"
Creating Great Groups
- Instilling in people a sense of destiny and desire to accomplish greatness
- Maintaining a competitive edge and a view that the team is an underappreciated underdog that will win, shock, and inspire
Identifying the Right People for the Right Position
- As Coach Herb Brooks said when building the U.S. 1980 Olympic hockey team: "I'm not looking for the best players - I'm looking for the right ones."
- Selecting the type of players so that the whole (team) is greater sum of the parts (employees, players)
- Being on guard against prima donnas and disruptive influences
- Finding your captain and team leader
Innovation and Strategic Change
- Always be on the look out and the hunt for better ways to do things
- What tools and resources are available to help your team win?
- How Coach Brooks, a supreme innovater and strategist, taught and mentored us to play a revolutionary type of hockey that would enable us to beat the mighty Soviet machine: a hybrid of the bruising and physical Canadian form of play and the speed, fluidity, and finess of the Eastern European and Soviet game
- When needed, abandoning the old, unsuccessful, yet comfortable, for the new and uncomfortable, yet what will eventually enable success
Making a Difference -- Build Your Legacy
- Make it matter that you lived!
- Are you optimizing your God-given talents?
- Set the right example for your children, for all young people
- Improve the lives of others
The Keys to Peak Performance:
- Hard Work
- Sacrifice
- Humility: A Willingness to Ask for Advice and Seek Out the Counsel of Others
- Persistence
