March Madness Proof 3.0: The College Transfer Portal is an Example of Using Hard Skill Competencies of Organizing, and a Key Axiom for Leaders!
Greg "GW" Weismantel
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Continuing my discussion of the outcome of the 2023 NCAA Basketball Season called March Madness, ?here are a few salient tenets of leadership management that are reflected in sports and in business alike.
March Madness is one of my favorite times of the year, not only because I am an avid b-ball fan, and believe it or not I’m still playing full court, but also because sports allows me to identify principles of leadership management to young leaders.?I probably enjoy that the most.
Ever since HR stopped funding the training and development of hard-skill competencies of leadership management, I have noticed a decline in the really great executives which come directly from the department leader’s position. Coincident with this void, some disruptions in the workforce have arisen as well, like quiet quitting and lack of motivation among department teams.
Hard-skill management competencies emanate from the 6 functions of leadership management, Strategy, Planning, Organizing, Leadership, Teamwork, and Control.
I pointed out last week in Fairleigh Dickinson’s upset of Purdue, the similarity on how much more a leader needs to master the hard-skill competencies of leadership management first, then soft skills second.?
Yesterday, I envisioned how FD’s coach Tobin Anderson used other hard-skill competencies of Strategy, an Internal & External Analysis, when he arrived in 2020 from a Division III college in New York.
That let him restructure the entire athletic area at FD using the hard skill competency of the function of organizing, called Transformation.
But the transformation didn’t stop there.?Just like an executive does when he performs a similar Internal & External analysis for Strategic Planning, Tobin recognized some talent weaknesses he had now at FD, versus what talent he needed to fit into the structure of the team he was developing.?
He saw he lacked speed, and playmakers like he had at St. Thomas Aquinas at New York, where for 7 seasons his teams dominated Division III b-ball. He needed this talent because he knew he was going to run into competition like Purdue, and to be a winner he needed a group of veteran players that had ice water in their veins for decision making and problem solving, two hard skill competencies of the function of Leadership!
That's an example of what each leader should do annually within their department or unit, with their team. Great leaders tap the brains of their team, not just themselves, and that's one more reason it's important to master the hard skill competencies of management first, then the soft skills.
So Coach Tobin did what leadership managers and executives with companies cannot do!?He brought 3 of his players to FD from St. Thomas through the Transfer Portal. He now had the internal and external framework to beat great teams, like Purdue.?The rest is history.
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But remember my mantra of mastering the hard skill competencies first for becoming a great executive. While you do not have access yet to a Management Transfer Portal, there is a hard-skill competency in the function of Leadership called “training & development,” which every leadership manager is accountable.
In my coming hard-skill management courses which we will release soon, you will learn the difference between training and development, as well as the differences between hard skills and soft skills, and mentoring vs. coaching. Each has a special place in another hard skill competency called "Succession Management."
In order for you to achieve the same success that Tobin Anderson did versus Purdue, gaining the internal and external framework to beat great competitors in business, you need to maximize the use of hard-skill competencies of strategy, planning, organizing, leadership, teamwork, and control.
I will help you.
GW
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