Time for Change
The
best performers in the world of sports never outgrow their need for change and
development. Professional players are constantly
watched over from stands by their specialty coaches. They are analyzing mistakes and missed
opportunities in the game, to improve the next performance.
Even
years after they have established their greatness, professional golfers on the
men’s and women’s teams go in search of coaches to help them achieve their goal
of winning a golf tournament or the correction of a slice or hook that would
take the professional out of the competition.
This attention to detail and finding a coach when their game has lost
something pays off handsomely in the game.
In the past years, the difference between being number one and number
fifty was more than a million dollars. Yet,
the difference between the number one and number fifty was less than a few
strokes per round over an entire season.
The
difference between top performers in every field, including business, is in the
details. Those top people need and
depend on coaching to make them successful.
Good coaching helps first-rate performers do their best every time they
face a tough opponent, tricky sand trap or an upset customer. The need for good coaching is the same as the
need for change, recognition and reward, is something the best players and
trainers will never outgrow. Just the
same can be said for a truly empowered, self-motivated employee who knows when
it is time for a change. Not the one who
is convinced they have nothing more to learn.
Robert J. Dahl
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