Back-to-back for the mighty Gators
I am a proud Alumni of the University of Florida. Monday night the Gators beat Ohio State to win the National Championship in basketball just a few months after they beat Ohio State to win the National Championship in football.
Even better, the Gators won the basketball tournament last year as well. One of the announcers Monday night explained what Billy Donovan (Florida’s head coach) had done in the months leading up to last night’s victory while in the shadow of last year’s win…
He talked to others that had done it too. Bill Bellichick of the New England Patriots was a common confidante along with Rick Pitino - both of which have secured their back-to-back wins.
Stellar coaches are not the only ones that can benefit from this tactic because this is how all people learn. What opportunities are there in your organization to put people in contact with others that have been through what they are going through, that have solved the challenges they are facing or that are utilizing a similar strategy?
This can be in the form of a full-blown community of practice or a simple introduction among peers that may just last through lunch.
Leave it to me to find a parallel between this great acheivement in sports and informal learning but hey…it’s what I do.
April 4th, 2007 No Comments »
