{"id":22044,"date":"2019-05-15T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=22044"},"modified":"2019-05-15T09:00:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T13:00:56","slug":"building-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/15\/building-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"Building relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I previously wrote a review of the book  <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/book-review-great-teams-16-things-high-performing-organizations-do-differently\/\">Great Teams: 16 Things High Performing Organizations Do Differently<\/a>. One of the quotes I flagged while reading it is the following.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em> &#8220;So the focus in sports has to first be on relationships.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A team is nothing if not a collection of relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mark Lebedew ran <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/homeonthecourt\/status\/1127592033064034305\">a poll<\/a> on his Twitter feed where he asked visitors the question How many relationships are there in a volleyball team of 12 players?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Want to hazard a guess?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I should note, Mark&#8217;s question can be a bit misleading. He didn&#8217;t say &#8220;individual relationships&#8221;. There are 66 of those. When you consider all the groupings of more than two people, though, you get a really big number &#8211; 4083 to be exact. And that&#8217;s not counting coaches and other staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now consider this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When coaches run team-building exercises, how many of those relationships are they working to develop?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oftentimes the answer is just one. The whole team is working together. That leaves a lot of relationships out of the equation. And the ones left out necessarily include every 6-player relationship involving the various combinations of players who will be on the court together playing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seems like we&#8217;d be better off spending time (and possibly money) working to develop the smaller group relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Food for thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A volleyball team is a collection of relationships. A whole lot of relationsihps! Do we give this enough thought and attention?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[315,317,318,319],"class_list":["post-22044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching","tag-team-building","tag-team-chemistry","tag-team-culture","tag-team-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}