How to Create Urgency in your Triple Option Football Players

December 24, 2013

1- Bring the outside in.

Helping your players see problems that threaten opportunities can decrease complacency and increase urgency.

2- Behave with urgency every day.

The constantly changing environment in organizations requires coaches to be always alert and agile.  This means that coaches have to model a sense of urgency all the time when they are coaching scoop blocks, blocks on #3, reading #1, pitching #2, and bending behind the action key.

3- Find opportunity in crises.

When a crisis occurs, see it as an opportunity to create urgency and mobilize the action needed to better prepare the program for the future.

4- Deal with the urgency killers (“cancers”).

These people do nearly anything to discredit the players and coaches who are trying to create a sense of urgency. How to deal with them?  First, keep them actively distracted with challenging assignments – preferably outside the office.  The second is to get them out of the program. The third is to expose their behavior in ways which will allow social peer pressures to stop it.  But whatever you do, don’t ignore the urgency killers.

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