Let’s Talk Business… and the Super Bowl

It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and even though your favorite city didn’t make it to the big game this year, you’re still watching.

It’s a great excuse to get together with friends and eat the same food you still probably would’ve been eating even if it wasn’t Super Bowl Sunday.

Have you ever stopped for a second to think about how relevant NFL football was to your business life?

Probably not, but don’t worry we did! 

The Goal

Every NFL football team goes into the season with goals in mind just like every business goes into a new year with goals.

It’s assumed that NFL teams have one main goal in the beginning of the season:

The Super Bowl

Businesses can have one main goal also, but usually, the main goal is accompanied by many other achievable goals. These achievable goals come from other departments and from individual employees.

Most likely, the NFL works the same way. The coach can have specific achievable goals for his own team. The front office staff can have goals set for the coach. Then the front office staff can have goals set for themselves and other relevant departments.

Goals are being set all over the place, even in the NFL!

The Season 

The season opener is here before we know it. Summer is ending and fall is anticipated. Players run onto the field and begin warming up. Fans fill the stands with hope in their eyes. Football is back and Thursday’s won’t be the same until February.

The beginning of the season goes a bit differently at the office.

For most, it’s January and it’s cold. Many dread leaving the warm blankets in the morning, but know there are bills to pay and goals to accomplish. There’s not an entire stadium of fans cheering you on or an amazing song blasting as you walk into the office.

In the end, it’s all the same, though. Without those things, you still get up and go to work. You start the season as much as you might not want to. You get things going and start working towards those goals you have dangling in front of you.

The Dedication

Dedication is something that NFL employees and office employees share. We’re all dedicated to attaining goals and becoming better at what we do.

Well, most of us anyway.

NFL players show dedication by showing up on practice fields and to locker rooms. There is a lot more to the game than Thursday night, Monday night and Sunday football. There are times spent at the athletic trainer so that a torn meniscus can be healed by next season. There’s also showing up to review tapes and finding areas for improvement.

There must attend media events, even if they are just there so that they don’t get fined.

Working for a business takes just as much dedication. You work hard so that the business can succeed.

You stay until 10 PM so that you can close that big account you’ve been working with for the past week. You come into the office at 7 AM so that you can join in on the conference call on the East Coast.

Dedication is one thing that an NFL team must have to make it into the Super Bowl. It’s also a quality business men and women must have to be successful and meet goals.

The Teamwork

No business or NFL team will make it through an entire season (or year) without teamwork.

Teamwork makes the dream work.

A quarterback in the NFL isn’t getting anywhere fast without a running back or a receiver. Just like a coach isn’t going to win a Super Bowl (or any game for that matter) without a quarterback. Without one person on the field or in the front office, the team will fall apart.

Just like in the NFL teamwork is an absolute necessity in the workplace. You work together with your team and talk things out with coworkers every day. Somebody in the marketing department may have an answer for somebody in the purchasing department and vice-versa. Without one person on the team, you’ll be doing a lot more work than imagined.

The Playoffs

Playoffs: The time when you’re supposed to give almost everything you have in order to make it to where you’re trying to go.

In the NFL, the players are supposed to be giving everything they have every time they step onto that field. When it comes to playoffs, that’s expected and so much more. The main goal is in sight and they can’t bare themselves to watch it slip away.

It’s almost time to shine but first, they must prove they deserve it.

Similarly, many companies keep their eyes on the goals throughout the year. When the end of the year is approaching, you should know those goals should almost be met.

This is the time that you really start grinding out everything you have by working the hardest you have all year.

The Hype

So you made it past the playoffs and you’re headed to the big game.

In the NFL this is a HUGE deal. This is what every single game came down to. This was possible from all the work in the offseason. There is no doubt that the media is watching you and expecting a lot.

Similar to the NFL, this is the goal you have been working to accomplish all year. It’s the last couple weeks of the year. The entire team is waiting to hear the results. You want to know if you hit the goals and so does the team but you can’t know until the year is over.

Game Day

This is the moment for players to show fans, family, friends and the entire country everything they’ve got and have been working towards.

This is when these teams are going to leave everything on the field.

Same goes for you and your team. This is the moment you’ve been waiting for all year. This is what all the late nights in the office and early mornings have done.

You find out the results and in that moment you will know if you won or lost, just like the NFL football teams.

The Fans

These are the people you do it all for. These are the people who will stand behind you when you win or when you lose.

In the NFL some fans will pick apart certain plays or get angry with the coach for calling the wrong play. Two fans will come out, the ones who say, “They didn’t give it everything that had” or the ones who will say “they truly left it all on the field but it wasn’t enough.”

In a workplace things are a little bit different. Your fans are your family, your friends and your coworkers. It’s your boss saying, “We didn’t hit the goal but this is what we have to do differently.” Or, it’s your boss saying, “You hit your goal and I couldn’t be happier.”

At the end of the day, we’re all the same. We all work hard to reach our goals.

We help accomplish each other’s goals. We have the freedom to create and innovate as part of this special family. Like puzzle pieces, we know the sum is greater than the parts; that by working together, we will create the greatest outcome for everyone. QCSS-

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