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5 Leadership Bounty Lessons from Spring Training with the Pittsburgh Pirates
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Mar 26, 2014, 06:20 ET

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Treasurer, center-right, poses with the Pirates players and coaches between sessions.
Treasurer, center-right, poses with the Pirates players and coaches between sessions.

I learned as much about leadership by spending two days at Pirate City than I have just about anywhere else.

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Asheville, NC (PRWEB) March 26, 2014 -- Baseball spring training season is marked with a series of practices and exhibition games to prepare new and old players alike for the coming official season. This year’s Pittsburgh Pirates spring training at Pirate City in Bradenton, Florida also included leadership sessions with best-selling author Bill Treasurer. The invitation came after Clint Hurdle, the Pirate’s manager, read Treasurer’s latest book, “Leaders Open Doors.” What Treasurer didn’t realize was that he would learn as much about leadership from the Pirates in their two days together as he would offer the players and coaches. Below he shares his “Five Leadership Bounty Lessons From Spring Training with the Pittsburgh Pirates” as well as the leadership essential takeaways for leaders of businesses and organizations of all types.

• Cultivate the Farm: The term “bench strength” comes from baseball. Over the long haul, the teams that consistently win are those that pay as much attention to the next generation of players as the big league stars. One overriding goal of the coaches at Pirate City is to turn boys into men. More than a few players are teenagers who are away from home for the first time. Character building is as much an emphasis as playing ball. Players are taught to wear their baseball caps straight!

Leadership Essential: Actively build leadership skills among your organization’s next generation of leaders to deepen the overall bench strength.

• Emphasize Leadership: The simplest definition of leadership is “to stay out in front.” To be in the lead, you’ve got to be leading. A lot of coaching time is devoted to helping players learn to be leaders. They bring in outside leadership experts, journal their thoughts on leadership, and even have a “leadership counsel” of players who are voted on by their peers for their leadership potential.

Leadership Essential: Thinking about leadership isn’t enough. Leadership is something you do. Provide real opportunities for people to lead and take charge.

• Own Your Own Accountability: Few things are as damaging to a team than lack of individual accountability. As said on a locker room poster, “You either did or didn’t, who cares why or why not?” Each morning team members who feel they’ve let the team down in some way voluntarily fess up and put a dollar into a penalty jug. When enough money accrues, it’s donated to a worthy cause. Self-accountability is the best way to promote team-accountability.

Leadership Essential: Create an environment that encourages people to “own” their performance and mistakes. Embody personal accountability as a core value.

• Provide “Bursts” of Motivation: Energy management is critical to high performance. Players don’t need to be keyed-up for the entire game lest they fizzle out before the game is over. Rather, they need to flip the motivation button to “on” instantaneously as needed. Coaches provide motivational pep talks in short 5 to 10 min “bursts”, not drawn out speeches or lectures.

Leadership Essential: Fire people up with one or two quick motivational messages, not every motivational quote you’ve ever heard.

• Be Abnormal: At the end of the season, only one team wins. The winning team is an outlier. Winning isn’t normal and requires an abnormal level of preparation, practice, and hard work. Champions sacrifice the comforts normal people seek.

Leadership Essential: Get everyone striving for excellence by asking each person to improve performance by one tenth of one percent every day. It’s the best way to outperform average.

During his visit, Treasurer sensed a swelling level of confidence building in the Pirates franchise. After a twenty year losing streak, the longest in North American professional sports history, the team headed in 2013 to postseason play for the first time in twenty-one years. The season had built on the momentum that was created in 2012, when they won early in the season but later collapsed.

After reflecting on the experience, Treasurer shared, “I’ve been fortunate to have worked with some of the best organizations in the world, ranging from NASA to Saks Fifth Avenue. For over two decades I’ve designed, developed, and delivered leadership and succession programs for corporate and nonprofit clients. But I’m here to tell you, I learned as much about leadership by spending two days at Pirate City than I have just about anywhere else.”

Bill Treasurer is the author of "Leaders Open Doors," which focuses on how leaders create growth through opportunity. Bill is also the author of "Courage Goes to Work," an international bestselling book that introduces the concept of courage-building. He is also the author of "Courageous Leadership: A Program for Using Courage to Transform the Workplace," an off-the-shelf training toolkit that organizations can use to build workplace courage. Bill has led courage-building workshops for, among others, NASA, Accenture, CNN, PNC Bank, SPANX, Hugo Boss, Saks Fifth Avenue, and the US Department of Veterans Affairs. To inquire about having Bill work with your organization, contact info(at)giantleapconsulting(dot)com.

Megan Constantino, Weaving Influence, http://www.weavinginfluence.com, +1 304-222-0222, [email protected]

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Best-selling author and leadership consultant Bill Treasurer
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