{"id":271,"date":"2007-12-02T15:43:54","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T19:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken\/2007\/12\/02\/closed-circle\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T18:20:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T23:20:26","slug":"closed-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/closed-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"Closed Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just watched &#8220;<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.heartofthegame.org\/web\/home.htm\">The Heart of the Game<\/span>&#8220;, a documentary about the <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.msn.com\/RHSGirlsBasketball\/\">Roosevelt Roughrider&#8217;s girl&#8217;s basketball team<\/a> (my old high school).<\/p>\n<p>At key moments, the coach called a closed circle meeting where the players went off by themselves coming back with resolution or a group decision.<\/p>\n<p>In the first example, the team worked through tension between players resulting in dramatically better play &#8212; going from tight games to blowing out opponents.<\/p>\n<p>In the second example, the team rallied around a player at the risk of forfeiting their season. <\/p>\n<p>As reward for their camaraderie and commitment, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1570615187?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=judykatcom-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1570615187\">the coach<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=judykatcom-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1570615187\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> made sure every player received game time during the close-fought final championship game. What&#8217;s more, the starters rallied around his decision. The younger players not only held their own but played above themselves.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of hype about teamwork in business and self-directed teams in agile practice. A lot of managers look to sports as an example. Rarely do we pull it off. <\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, it&#8217;s about actions that value the group as much as the individuals and actions that source from trust to earn trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just watched &#8220;The Heart of the Game&#8220;, a documentary about the Roosevelt Roughrider&#8217;s girl&#8217;s basketball team (my old high school). At key moments, the coach called a closed circle meeting where the players went off by themselves coming back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/closed-circle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[11,412,168,388,413],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-agile-management","tag-basketball","tag-coach","tag-player","tag-the-heart-of-the-game"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}