IS YOUR TEAM’S CULTURE WHERE YOU WANT OR NEED IT TO BE?
ARTICLE LINK: Jeff Jannsen's Sports Leadership
Do you have a positive and productive culture firmly in place that helps you win on and off the playing fields?
Or are you frustrated because you seem to have a Country Club Culture where many of your athletes are too soft, lazy, and entitled?
Or worse yet, do you have a Corrosive Culture filled with conflicts, criticism, and cliques that distract, divide, and destroy your team from within?
Unfortunately, many coaches don’t realize the full impact of their culture - until it’s too late. For example, in the frustrating last days of his coaching career at Illinois, former men’s basketball coach Bruce Weber candidly lamented to the media, “You have got to develop a culture. I think the last three years all I worried about was winning rather than developing a culture. I am disappointed in myself for not developing a culture of toughness with our team.”
Your team’s culture has a powerful, persistent, and pervasive impact on everything you do in your program. It impacts recruiting, attitude, commitment, competitiveness, chemistry, etc. Because of this, you must invest the time to continually mold, monitor, measure, and maintain your culture throughout the course of a season.
To build a winning culture, you must first honestly and accurately assess your current culture.Being privileged to work closely with hundreds of programs each year through our Leadership Academies, here are the seven most common kinds of cultures I see when working with a variety of teams. I've categorized the seven cultures based on how much the particular culture values and emphasizes both relationships and results. See which of the seven best describes the current state of your program.
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