7 Ways Your Football Knowledge Can Increase Your Business Success: Part 3
Part 3 of 7 of this Blog Series by Warren Sager. Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, and Part 7.
After moving to Louisiana, the heart of football country, I became a fan of college football – specifically LSU, where my son attended. Being a student of business, I was amazed at how similar football is to business and now I frequently use football references to coach businesses. Here are 7 ways your football knowledge can increase your business success.
#3 Blackboard
In football, blackboard x’s and o’s are a visual way to communicate who needs to do what and where they need to do it. People are visual and we learn faster when we see something instead of only hearing it.
In business, we create strategic plans that outline what the play should be and what people need to do; but it often falls flat because we’re not making it visual to help the team understand.
- How are you showing your team the plan?
- Are you expecting your team to be clear without pictures?
I help companies create a picture so they can visualize their company’s actions and performance in a very clear and simple way. One of the best strategic pictures is called KFFM (Key Function Flow Map), which shows how each company function leads to profit and how each of those functions is doing right now.
Another example of a strategic picture is the “market map” which shows the company, competitors, vendors, and associations in a way that visually helps connect and understand opportunities in the market.
Use pictures to create digestible information & improve execution of great strategy.
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