365.2 Jackie Cameron – Coaching and Communication

My first comment is from Jackie, so she her blog is 365.2 in my 365 HR Blog quest.   There are some unique touch points.

1. Jackie hails from Edinburgh, Scotland, home to not only the Scottish Literati, but also where I visited beautiful Edinburgh for two days this past summer.

2. One of her coaching projects is Space Unlimited, focusing on Scottish history. Coincidentally, I am reading Arthur Herman’s New York Times Bestseller How the Scots Invented the Modern World.

I am going to borrow from her post The basketball model for effective communication in the workplace and rewrite some of it with my American NASCAR spin. 

1 Tuning in for the last minute For many races, the final laps are where the best racing plays out. It’s not how many laps you lead, it’s which one you led. That lap being the final lap at the start/finish line.

2 Getting the score at the end of each quarter  When I’m not directly watching the race, I will normally pay passive attention to the radio broadcast and pay particular attention to when they announce the current field in order.

3 Sitting throught the whole game.  The only televised races that I sit through the full race with are the true superspeedways, Daytona and Talladega.  This is the best racing in NASCAR.  Once per season, I do get over to Loudon to watch the first race in the chase for the championship.

4 Sitting near the bench so that you can hear the coach’s instructions   In NASCAR, the teams communicate via radio. These conversations are occassionally rebroadcast as sound bites during the televised race. For an extra fee, you can listen and watch live in-car cameras and radio conversations. If at the race, the best deal is to get the NASCAR Fan View device and hear and watch the race, drivers, crew chiefs and car owners, uncut and uncensored. Raw emotion revealed.

5 Being in the changing rooms for the pre match, half time and post match team talks.  In NASCAR, this is being in the pits, before, during and after the race.  The planning, the strategy,  the team spirit, all live, all raw, all at 200 MPH.

Visit Jackie’s post. She speaks with authentic wisdom.