| It's becoming politically incorrect to suggest someone could perform better in a workplace. Curious this doesn't apply on the basketball court, but does apply in the conference room. Is it so unacceptable to drive for the collective win at the "cost" of acknowledging individual gaps? If your team and your coach aren't a safe space to accurately explore your gaps in pursuit of shoring them up, both with exercises for you and with adjustments to the team play, why train pro at all? Anything less is literal amateur hour. No professional athlete can afford to think "accurately explore the failings of" equates to "belittle", and no serious player would expect the coach to only give post- or even mid-game feedback behind closed doors. Without that team discussion you're going to have a really difficult time knowing what to work on in yourself to be better, and your team is going to have a hard time knowing the watch-out-fors to collaborate on guard-railing your play. (Not incidentally, basketball and baseball are near real-time stats driven. So is BW performance culture. We understand this for improving software by running it under a debugger or tools like New Relic, why not instrument your own processes?) If you don't feel like opting-in to acknowledging and working on gaps as a team owning the outcomes, don't sign up somewhere that does. If you do feel like opting-in, seek out teams and managers that believe in reality-based root cause feedback loops -- great retros drive greater forward looking results, for the product, the team, and you. |