3D COACHING: Merge Personal and Team Goals for Success

Good coaches energize people to commit to an effort and to enthusiastically put the team’s goals above their personal wants and desires. So many times, people can be ready, willing, and able to put even grievances aside when they are exposed to a vision that clearly maps out the kind of team they want to be part of. Good coaches help their teams get excited about how team success can translate into satisfaction of personal goals.

Great coaches inspire goals that equally satisfy the person and the team. The book Good to Great by Jim Collins points to how corporate culture and discipline allow organizations to achieve greatness over goodness. This is about the ways in which disciplined people working well together can reduce or eliminate the need for hierarchy, bureaucracy, and excessive controls.

Coaches can allow their players to pursue their goals and can align all those individual pursuits with the goal of the team. Do you think this path to success can work for you as a leader?