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Where’s your team playbook? Hmm?

Berkonomics

From experience and from information about the competition, a coach creates a playbook that contains detailed plans for actions or plays that the entire team must know without question and execute without pause in order to win games and advance toward the playoffs. Again, there is a great parallel in football coaching.

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Does your team know your playbook?

Berkonomics

From experience and from information about the competition, a coach creates a playbook that contains detailed plans for actions or plays that the entire team must know without question and execute without pause in order to win games and advance toward the playoffs. Again, there is a great parallel in football coaching.

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Here are five TACTICAL skills of a great leader.

Berkonomics

It is hard to coach or teach leadership in a few paragraphs. There are many types of metrics, some very easy to manage. Email readers, continue here…] A great leader is a great cheerleader, knowing when and how to reward effective achievement through all levels of the organization. Third: support. Fourth: reward.

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Gamify those otherwise dull work assignments

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] So, think of ways to make each process into a game, one in which there is a defined metric or measure of the winner at the end of a cycle short enough to permit teaching, celebration, challenge, and motivation for the next time played. Be a good coach and be creative.

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Will you BURN the next manager you hire?

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] I’ve seen this happen so many times, it is almost a rule for me. I urge them to coach, but not to expect the new manager to be a duplicate in style or perceived ability. which unfortunately is a general rule. . Then it happens.

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Turn “process” into “game.”

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here.] So think of ways to make each process into a game, one in which there is a defined metric or measure of the winner at the end of a cycle short enough to permit teaching, celebration, challenge, and motivation for the next time played. Be a good coach, and be creative.

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Is your CFO a bookkeeper or a strategist?

Berkonomics

I recently coached a CFO in a small company to urge the CEO to stop working upon the operational issues and focus upon the future, even if that meant a pivot to protect the business as the world was changing in that industry at an accelerated rate. Here’s one that most small company founders and CEO’s miss until it may be too late.

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