When it comes to building a truly great organization, a
team, going the free agent route and hiring on proven, often high priced talent
is not always an option and quite frankly doesn’t always work. Playing the
revolving door game of hiring people that you think will be a good fit isn’t
always a guarantee of success and talent roulette can be expensive and cause
other issues. So rather than managing and massaging to build your team what’s a
better choice? How about coaching that talent to become a winning team?
That is the theory bestselling author, business coach
and motivational speaker Nathan Jamail’s latest, The Leadership Playbook – Creating a Coaching Culture to Build Winning
Teams. Jamail goes much deeper than just wrapping common sense business principles
in a whole bunch of sports analogies and clichés; he offers up practical
principles and backs them up with actionable steps that you can plug into your
business today.
Jamail may ruffle a few feathers with his direct
approach to handling personnel issues and attitudes that probably won’t win him
many friends down in HR, but he’s right on when it comes to the assessing the
damage that can be done both internally to your employees and externally to
your customers if you don’t deal with these problem children issues head on.
Superstar talent is not born; Jamail preaches with the
fervor of a Texas high school football coach that it’s nurtured, developed, honed
through practice and heck yeah I’ll say it, its coached to greatness! He also
reminds us that expectations are set, outcomes are measured and accountability
has to be part of the mix.
