March Madness, Part 2

“So many times, our best (college) players, and then our best NBA players, didn’t think about the NBA at all or how they were being evaluated. They just did their best every day.”
– Coach John Beilein

Last week, we talked with one of America’s great college basketball coaches about how to recruit talent to fuel a high-performing team. This week, in the second of our 2-part series, Advantage CEO Jonathan Hodge talks with John Beilein about how he built relationships with rookies to help them become valuable team players.

He offers some great advice that applies to leaders in business as well as those in sports. Here are some highlights:

• Be authentic with new recruits so they know what they’re getting into.
• Choose a mentor who is just one step above them in development, someone who has just a little more experience. Make sure that person or someone else is in constant contact with them.
• Pay attention to big data so you can be objective about their progress. Offer data, not opinions.
• Set a growth mindset. The goal is to help rookies become unconsciously competent, a state of high performance that becomes second nature through learning and practice.
• Value team over talent. The high tide rises every boat.
• Be a lifetime learner to open the gate to new ideas.

Listen in on their full conversation here.

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March Madness: Turn rookies into valuable team players

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