Posts Tagged ‘leveraging strengths’
How to Set Your Tebows Up for Success November 18 2011 one response
He did it again. On Thursday night, down 13 to 10 against the NY Jets, Tim Tebow quarterbacked the Denver Broncos to a win in the last five minutes of the game. He’s done that so often this season that fans have named the closing minutes of the game Tebow Time. The highlight of the most recent episode came when, on third and four with about a minute left in the game, Tebow picked up on a Jets blitz and ran the ball around the left side and into the end zone for the game winning touchdown.
He’s having a pretty good season for a guy who many thought might be put on waivers a few months ago. Tebow was so far down the Broncos depth chart that for awhile he wasn’t even their third strong quarterback. While he had led Florida to national championships when he was in college and won the Hesiman trophy, most of the experts thought that Tebow’s playing style was not cut out for the NFL. Those experts included the new Denver head coach, Jon Fox, and their legendary head of football operations, John Elway. Both of them had a lot of the “he’s a fine young man” sort of praise for Tebow but didn’t express a lot of confidence in his abilities. Tebow kept working in practice, riding the bench in games and the Broncos started 1 and 4. With no better options, Fox decided to play Tebow five weeks ago and now the team is 5 and 5 on the season.
Week by week, Fox and his staff have made adjustments in the game plan to take advantage of Tebow’s strengths. You have to give them credit for that because a lot of coaches wouldn’t. There are a few things that executives and managers can learn from the Denver coaches about how to leverage the strengths of talented players who don’t fit the mold. Here are three ways to set your own Tebows up for success.
5 Signs That You’re So Busy Doing That You Don’t See What Needs To Be Done June 13 2011 4 responses
One of the things I do on a regular basis is speak to groups of new and high potential executives about what they can do to succeed in bigger jobs. In the run-up to those sessions, I often ask them to complete a short self-assessment on how they think they stack up on some of the leadership behaviors outlined in The Next Level
The average self assessment scores tell a pretty interesting story. The headline?
Lots of leaders are so busy doing things that they don’t see what needs to be done.
In their self assessments, most of the leaders I’m working with think they’re doing a great job on action oriented behaviors. They give themselves relatively high marks on things like taking accountability, making timely decisions and being clear about communicating desired outcomes.
Don’t get me wrong. That’s good stuff. Effective leaders demonstrate those strengths. You know what they say about strengths, though. A strength when overused can be a weakness. That’s where the lowest ranked behaviors in the self assessment come into play. There are five of them that really stand out and, collectively, they’re signs that you’re so busy doing things you may not really see what needs to be done.
How do you stack up on these behaviors?
Scott Eblin is an executive coach, speaker and author of 
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