How to Create Your Own Dream Team

The tip-off to the 2009-10 basketball season is rapidly approaching. Whether you play fantasy sports, coach a local youth team or just simply are looking for ways to motivate folks around the office, here are a few key ingredients and tips to put together your own Dream Team.

Things You'll Need

  • motivated athletes
  • passionate workers
  • selfless teammates
  • superstar performers
  • a diverse leader
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Instructions

  1. Building Your Dream Team

    • 1

      Evaluate Talent!

      Failure is not an option when building a Dream Team. Take a look at every person on your team individually. What motivates them? What is their skill level? Are they on the same page with a common goal? Are there two or three who are capable of carrying the load for the entire team?

      One of the biggest mistakes in trying to build a Dream Team is the thought that adding the best of the best in ingredients will produce the most tremendous final product.

      Team after team has found that money can't buy you champions or a championships and teams that have superior talent don't win every game.

    • 2

      Determine Everyone's Purpose!

      You can have the finest and most expensive sugar in all the world, but it will not do you any good if that is your main ingredient if your trying to make five alarm Texas chili.

      Once you have evaluated the talent on hand and have everyone on the same page, it's time to determine everyone's role.

      In basketball, you do not want to try and force the issue and run the ball if your top eight players are all slow post players. The same connects to the workplace.

      Be flexible in finding ways to maximize the team's strengths and hide its weaknesses until you can correct them.

    • 3

      Practice, Practice, Practice!

      I once heard a coach say, "If you're ripe ... You're rotten... If you're green ... You're growing!" The team understands their direction. Everyone understands his or her role on the team. Now they must each believe the only way they will be able to fully succeed is to work harder than their opponents at every level of the game.

      Once a person or a team has reached the point they think they "have it," disaster is sure to follow. The constant grind of a season is tremendous. True winners are separated here. Who is the first in the gym and the last to leave? Who is working to improve on the weak points of their game? Who is putting in the extra time to do research on the opposition?