Make sure everyone on the team knows the game plan.

 

It’s not enough to have a fantastic game plan. What good is it if not everyone knows about it? Each week, professional teams go over their plans for the upcoming game. The players have to fully understand the strategy, their assigned roles, and how they are expected to contribute. No matter how brilliant the game plan, it must be shared with the people who will execute it, or it’s meaningless. A player who shows up on Sunday without knowing it backwards and forwards puts a team at a tremendous disadvantage because he wouldn’t have a clue about the team’s strategy for beating the competition and what he is expected to contribute.

Everyone on your team has to know your organization’s game plan—the ...

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