team
Definition
Group of people with a full set of complementary skills
required to complete a task, job, or project. Team members (1) operate with a high
degree of interdependence, (2) share
authority and responsibility for self-management, (3) are accountable for the collective performance, and (4) work toward a common
goal and shared rewards(s). A team becomes more than just a collection of people when a strong sense of mutual
commitment
creates
synergy, thus generating performance greater than the sum of the performance of its individual members.
taken from businessdictionary .com
"It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit. "
~ Unknown
"If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team."
~ Bud Wilkinson
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.-
Vince Lombardi
These teams are considered to be among the best sports teams EVER
Growing up children always want to be on " so and so's " team. They dream of being on that winning team, or the team with the awesome coach. They watch with envy as they see the other teams receive their trophy, celebrate another victory, score another touchdown. I believe that this is normal behavior. Out of all of my years of coaching soccer, baseball, football and wrestling I do not think that I have ever had a player come up to me and say he hopes our team isn't good. Even the most elite of athletes in the world will experience defeat. Yesterday, The University of Alabama's football team was playing The University of South Carolina is a huge football game. There has been all sorts of hype about the quarterback for Alabama. He had not lost a football game that he started since he was in 8th grade. As fate would have it, that first loss came yesterday. Did the quarterback lose the game? NO, the Alabama Crimson Tide did.
As my children have all participated in different sports and on different teams we have had great coaches, and not so great coach, winning teams and losing teams. What made the good coaches good? The good coaches were the ones that brought the teams together in purpose. They had a goal that the coach got all of the players to buy into. He saw the greatness that they could achieve by working together. When those teams were all working towards a unifying goal, they did not mind sacrificing for the good of the team. In soccer, only one person kicks the ball into the net… but the rest of the team provided the support and passes to get to that point that the shot could be taken. In football, only one person can catch the ball or run the ball in for the score, but there were 10 other people on the field each fulfilling his responsibility for that score to happen.
When a coach drafts a team, each player is selected because of the skills, talents, traits and abilities that they will contribute to the team. Some players are specialized and some players are utility players, but the coach saw something in them that would help his team attain its goal.
The name of my blog is "Team Johnson". My team is different than the traditional team, I didn't get to draft or pick my team. If I had picked my team, I would have still picked the team that I have. My team is made up of wonderful players that I would take onto the playing field of life any day of the week. Is my team perfect? No, Do they have the best coach in the league? Not even close. But I see the potential of what they can become. My challenge is to get them to buy into the greatness that can be achieved by bonding together and working together to achieve our goal. As coach, it is my obligation to not give up on my team during the hard times. I have to be willing to put the individual time in after practice to help the player that needs my help.
Take a look at your own team… are you ready for the big game? Let your team know you love them and will never stop believing in them.
Fight On!
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