The New Zealand Rugby Team is a Phenomenon in itself, for last 125 years this team has rewritten history on many occasions. It can easily be called “THE BEST” team in sporting history. This team is called “The All Blacks”; they have won approximately 3/4th of their international matches (win % age close to 75%). This ratio is much higher than any other team, be it football, cricket or Hockey.
The question is what Makes Black Caps So Successful?
- Ego Management: Black Caps have been winning 75% of their games, yet these stars stay grounded and don’t have inflated egos. This is one of the best traits – stay grounded, most of the times success can get to our head easily.
- Element of Surprise: Most of the teams become complacent when they are on winning streak, but “When you’re on top of your game, change your game.” Successful teams keep an element of surprise and that’s the major reason they are one step ahead of their competition.
- Invent Your Own Language: Best Team Glue is the ability to create a language that the team understands. A strong sense of community and belonging cements All Black players to their team. The team Haka (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiKFYTFJ_kw) has a great impact on the competition; this at times breaks the confidence of opponents .
- Learning Environment: Never stop the learning curve; this is the basic mantra of All Black Caps. Hunger to learn new techniques and create a bench mark, challenge their previous best is the hall mark of successful teams. Patrick Lencioni, author of “The Ideal Team Player” says team members in any organization should be humble, hungry and smart. Every leader wants his team to be Hungary for more
- Team above Individuals: Every player plays for the team first rather than individual mile stones, such players are shown the door immediately. One selfish mindset will infect a collective culture.
- Dream Big: Leaders motivate their teams to Dream Big, The All Blacks are taught to embrace fear of failure, and cleverly use a healthy loss aversion to motivate even greater performance.
These are just few of the things that Black Caps do, going forward will try and share some more.
Please do add your thoughts in the comments below, on what are your secrets that make your team successful. This will help all of us.
Easy to understand perspective Sir
As a team leader one should aim high to stretch each individual performances