Bradley HamnerFounder, BlueprintOS · Founder - Above the Business & BlueprintOS

Coaching Beyond the Playbook with Randy Gravitt

Name: Coaching Beyond the Playbook with Randy Gravitt
Uploaded: 2024-08-07T04:00:12+00:00
Duration: 44 s
Channel: Bradley Hamner
Description: In this segment of the "Coaching Beyond the Playbook" interview, the speaker recounts a coaching moment where he assumed a young basketball player…

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In this segment of the "Coaching Beyond the Playbook" interview, the speaker recounts a coaching moment where he assumed a young basketball player already understood basic post-up techniques. The player’s willingness to ask clarifying questions revealed a gap in his foundational knowledge, prompting the coach to recognize the danger of making assumptions about a learner’s baseline skills. The anecdote serves as a broader lesson, urging coaches and business leaders alike to avoid presuming knowledge, to encourage questions, and to tailor instruction or training to each individual’s actual understanding.

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You know, I didn't know what he had been coached on, what he had. So I made an assumption, I knew how to be able to pin a kid down and post him up. But then him taking the ability to say, hey, I'm going to ask this question, whereas some other kids would be able to say, would just to go like, I'm just going to go with this, I'm not going to ask him, you know, what it is. So that gave me an opportunity, and it really was shining a light for me, not specifically in the context of basketball, to say, oh man, I can't assume. I can't assume that these kids know, you know, what some of these basic things are because they're basics to me basic, some, some kids I've taught. But to him, it, it, it wasn't. And it really made me think a lot about, uh, a business too. Where have I assumed that this person actually knows this thing versus whenever they don't?