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What Notre Dame Football Can Teach You About Corporate Training
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Article Overview: Taking advances from another industry and applying them to your business will separate and elevate you from your competitors. The military has been using video gaming for training since the early 1980's. Companies like Coldstone Creamery and Cisco are also using the interactive nature of gaming to reel in techno-savvy Millennials and educate them on both technical and customer service oriented skills.
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What Notre Dame Football Can Teach You About Corporate Training
In this economy, the days of a "five year plan" are out the window. We are in an environment where we must do more, better, faster and with less. To quote newly hired University of Notre Dame Football Coach Brian Kelly:
"We don't get five year plans, it is more like a five minute plan and we'll start to work on it immediately As for timetables, I don't want to get into that, but I expect our young men to play at a high level immediately."
Sound familiar managers? How many of you expect your new hires to perform at a high level immediately? You might want to consider going about your training like Coach Kelly. He is using video gaming to train his "employees". That's right-- a group of 120+ "Millennials" will be using a Playstation or Xbox type video game to learn the new coach's offensive and defensive system.
Kelly was hired to restore tradition to a once-storied program that has not won a national championship in 21 years and has not won a major bowl game since 1993. Essentially we are talking about an environment where new employees are meeting a new manager this year. In his industry, this new manager has the ultimate rebuilding job on his hands.
Taking advances from another industry and applying them to your business will separate and elevate you from your competitors. The military has been using video gaming for training since the early 1980's. Companies like Coldstone Creamery and Cisco are also using the interactive nature of gaming to reel in techno-savvy Millennials and educate them on both technical and customer service oriented skills.
While he didn't invent the use of video gaming as a training tool, Kelly has taken it to a whole new level at Notre Dame. Kelly's concept is the essence of leadership: getting your people to want to do what you want them to do. The natural by-product is creating buy-in from the team while simultaneously changing the culture of Notre Dame Football. The use of video gaming additionally will become his slight edge over the competition.
Thinking slows reaction time whether you're an athlete "on the field" or a business person "in the field". Every one of us has been victim of "paralysis by analysis" at one time or another in a new role. A simulation-based training game enables you to gain the "mental reps" which will facilitate the correct response when it counts. Every employee learns these "mental reps" at their own speed and the gaming methodology also allows the employer to accurately measure and track individual participation.
How are you engaging and building your team? Do you incorporate elements of simulation or gaming in your training programs? From an information retention standpoint because gaming is so engaging Millennials are more apt to retain critical training and seek more of it independently. In terms of the simple bottom line results it can increase efficiency and reduce costs. The ultimate bottom line is if you can educate your employees better, you serve your customers better-- which is the real victory.
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About the Author: john brubaker RSS for john's articles - Visit john's website John Brubaker brings more than fifteen years of experience in Leadership Development, Coaching and Human Resource Management in educational and corporate settings to his work as a coach, speaker, author and consultant. John Brubaker's professional background is rich and varied. Prior to launching his own business, he spent over decade as a college head coach and professor. Most recently Brubaker spent four years in sports broadcasting with ESPN Radio and Fox Sports. Brubaker guided the St. Andrew's College lacrosse program from 2001-2004 leading them to unparalleled success producing an NCAA Final Four appearance and Top 10 national rankings each year. A three time coach of the year, Brubaker has coached nine All-Americans and had seven of his players drafted to play professionally. He has been a featured speaker at the US Lacrosse National Convention and has also performed televised instructional pieces for Coaches Effectiveness as well as Player-Coach Communication. As a performance consultant, John works with organizations to helping them develop their competitive edge; their people. A 1992 graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University with a bachelor's degree in psychology he also earned a master's degree in personnel psychology from FDU in 1993. Brubaker has completed his doctoral level coursework in Sport Psychology at Temple University. John's passions include: coaching and deaf education. Active in the community, John is the vice-president of the National Cued Speech Association and serves on the board of the Cued Speech Association of Maine. He is also a member of the Kiwanis and the Positive Coaching Alliance. John and his wife Bethany have two children and live in Maine. Click here to visit john's website   10 Accounts To Follow On Twitter 12 Lessons in Leadership Part Two Run Your Business Like Dan Cardone Overcoming Game Day Conditions in Business 12 Lessons in Leadership From The Wizard |
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