Playing at the Top of Your Game!
Bringing Solutions to Business Issues through
the Lens of Basketball
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
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Picture This
In an intense basketball game, as the action increases, it is a strategic move on a coach’s part to call a “time-out” – effectively stopping the action. The players come off the court, out of the heat of the battle to discuss the situation.
While the coach may not use these exact words, the discussion is about… “What’s working? - How are we communicating with each other? How can we get better results? - What do we need to change? - Do we have the right team on the floor? - What do we need to be doing differently? - How can we better support each other? – Are our hearts and heads in the game? – Remember what were working towards, what this game means? – You are the ones to make it happen!”
Once players refocus, re-energize, and re-commit themselves, they go back on the court, and inevitably… … play
at the top of their game!
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Having their employees play more at the top of their game is precisely one of the outcomes that most organizations are looking for in an off-site event.
By coming to the Mecca of basketball, the Naismith Memorial
Basketball Hall of Fame, your employees stand to gain not just some more information - like at most workshops, meetings, and conferences they attend- they will gain a whole lot of inspiration!
Acting from an inspired state puts you at the top of your game …
thinking larger, seeing new possibilities, enjoying greater understanding of yourself and others, and… creating new value and impact in the world around you.
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If you are looking for an event to spark your team to be thinking, acting and working together better than ever….consider the Basketball Hall of Fame and the O I C Group as your special Event Partners
In this document we offer initial ideas aimed to serve as a catalyst for discussion and design for your upcoming event.
Whether a Sales Kick-Off, Leadership Conference, Strategic Retreat or Team-Building Initiative, the Basketball Hall of Fame and the O I C Group partner to ensure your success!
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The world of Basketball provides rich substance and valuable lessons to the Business World regarding teamwork, integrity, leadership, work ethic, and excellence. By employing engaging basketball metaphors to real life business issues, an event can be designed to deliver memorable and sustainable results for participants that will have impact for years to come.
Basketball Metaphors-Business Issues In Basketball, Passing, Dribbling, Offense and Defense all have special meaning. They are the Means to reach an End… the Processes by which the Results are Achieved.
Let’s Look at the Business World through the Lens of Basketball…
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Passing
How well do your team members receive, accept, understand and pass along information?
How is your communication process working? Where are the bottlenecks and breakdowns?
How well do you really know who is on the court? How are you understanding and communicating in your customer’s or colleague’s personality style?
Dribbling
What does your workday look like as you move the ball down court… recognizing your obstacles and moving toward your objectives? Are there plays that you could execute more efficiently? In what ways are you fostering individual and shared accountability… supporting team members to define and accomplish their goals? How are team members being coached for performance improvement?
With time such a precious commodity, how well do you master your workflow?…. to beat the “shot-clock” and put “time on your side.”
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Offense
How well do you and your team anticipate the changes in the marketplace and execute your game plan? What’s your follow-through like?
To what degree can you honestly say that you anticipate, meet, and more often, exceed your customer's expectations?
How are you creating a compelling shared vision to guide your team towards your desired future?
Defense
When change occurs, positive or challenging, to what degree do you and your team have a game plan for responding? Are you employing a climate of encouraged risk-taking, openness to new ideas and learning from mistakes? Where are the coachable moments?
How well is it recognized that there are no “bleacher seats” in the game of success; that if your team is going to win, you have to operate at a high level of accountability and may have to “leave some skin on the floor”.
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… Playing at the Top of Their Game…
In the business world today, most everybody is busier now than
ever before. Wearing many different hats… Being asked to do more with less… Putting scarce energy to the highest priorities, and always being on the lookout for tips, tools, and techniques that will help them achieve greater results.
When you hold your event at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, you can count on it being one where the
participants, like the players coming off the basketball court for a needed time-out, re-enter the competitive work world feeling refocused, re-energized, and recommitted…along with carrying a few more useful tools in their professional leadership and team tool kits.
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Next Steps…
The Basketball Hall of Fame in partnership with The O I C Group offers unique, high-quality, leadership, team, and professional development opportunities.
The inspirational setting of the Hall of Fame, coupled with the skills and experience of the O I C Group’s consulting team, guarantees that your event will have a real, measurable, and enjoyable impact. We look forward to discussing with you how to best design an unforgettable event where your employees walk away feeling like they too are Hall of Fame Champions!
Contacts:
Eddie Doucette - Edoucette@nba.com Joe Hevey -- Hevey@hoophall.com Jonathan Golding - Jonathan@oicgroup.com
www.hoophall.com • www.oicgroup.com
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