Through Everyone Contributing

What sort of team can genuinely thrive and operate with minimal input from the majority of the team?

I love watching football and one of the things I love about the game is watching how the team operates. The appreciation for the set up of the team and the decision for the selection of the first team. The assessment of the performance in the first half, the decision to make changes in the second half, the players to take off and the players to put on. The impact each player makes on the team performance. All because before each game there’s rigorous and thorough preparation for the game. That preparation is physical, technical, tactical and mental. That preparation ensures that each player knows the worth they have to ensuring the team plays at its optimum. Each player knows that it is only through everyone contributing that the team can have the optimum chance of victory.

Everyone contributing is not limited to the players on the pitch or on the bench. Those involved in the training are crucial. Those involved in the selection of the team and the recruitment for the squad are essential. The set up of the structure of the club is pivotal to creating the environment in which success can be achieved. The support of the fans cannot be underestimated either in terms of what they bring to the effort.

Perhaps from time to time one factor may be under-performing – perfection across all the elements is not a realistic expectation all the time. Yet there is something to be said for the platform for success that is possible through the preparation and then the application when it matters.

That’s why I find it odd when other collections of people don’t operate in the same way. I find it odd. I ask questions about it, I get answers on the matter and then I’m left with the challenge of what am I going to do about it.

Let’s see how it goes.

Wherever it goes, though, I’m hopeful that it will lead to a closer realisation of life with everyone actively and constructively contributing more often than not.

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For His Name’s Sake

Shalom

C. L. J. Dryden