Sean GlazeWorkplace Culture Speaker | Facilitator, Great Results Team Building · Leadership lessons from the locker room that change how your people work together.

Team Leadership Lesson That Took Me Ten Years to Learn - Short Teambuilding Insights

30 Aug 2019 · 1 min

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This content was created by Sean Glaze. This content was uploaded by Sean Glaze. This is a YouTube video titled "Team Leadership Lesson That Took Me Ten Years to Learn - Short Teambuilding Insights" (published 2019-08-30). It features a single speaker (labeled SPEAKER A) — a coach reflecting on a locker-room moment after a season loss and describing a leadership lesson: after spending about ten years focused on strategy (X's and O's) he realized he had neglected team culture, and by shifting attention to culture the program improved the following year.

About 10 years into coaching is when my eyes opened up, because I had spent most of that first 10 years focused on strategy. And I'm in a locker room after we had just lost the last game of our season, and the kids are walking out one by one as individuals, because as a leader, I hadn't worked to connect them. I just focused on the X's and O's. And it was that very next year that we completely turned around the program because we focused on the culture that I had neglected.