This content was created by Sean Glaze. This content was uploaded by Sean Glaze. This is a YouTube video titled "TEAMBUILDING SPEAKER - NO REARVIEW CRITICISMS" (created June 7, 2017). The excerpt is a single-speaker teambuilding/motivational talk—likely from a coach or leadership speaker—addressing how coworkers and teammates should avoid "rearview criticisms" (blaming past mistakes) and instead offer encouragements and reminders that focus on the next play. The speaker uses basketball metaphors and workplace examples to teach constructive feedback and leadership.
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But it's not just what you do at work that you need to be consistent with, it's what you say, because what you say is important to your coworkers, correct? And sometimes we say things to coworkers that can be dangerous or destructive or damaging. There are athletes and there are coworkers that sometimes look back and criticize things that have already happened, to point blame at what's back there. I call those rearview criticisms. Rearview criticisms are dangerous, and in basketball it sounds like this: Why didn't you block out? Why weren't you in the right defense? Why didn't you set that screen? But people who give rearview criticisms don't realize that nobody can go back and change the past. See, in your office it might be, why didn't you get that paperwork in? Why weren't you here on time? But people can't change the past. Winning teammates consistently say what people can actually take action on. Instead of looking in the rearview mirror and blaming with a rearview criticism, winning teammates give encouragements and reminders, because encouragements and reminders focus on the next play, because the only play that you have control on is the next one. No matter what happened in any basketball game we ever played, my players consistently heard me tell them, "Make the next play." Make the next play. Make the next play. That's your job as a winning teammate. Don't focus on rearview criticisms. Focus on the next play. What's an encouragement? What's a reminder that you can share with a teammate to make sure that instead of catching somebody who's made a mistake and blaming them and looking backward, where you actually take the initiative as a leader to say, Hey, remember to blank, so the mistake doesn't happen in the first place.
