The Purpose Of A Gameplan

Where Most Leaders Get It Wrong

We have all heard about the importance of having a Plan, or for the sports people out there, a Gameplan.

Many Leaders create these Gameplans, but most of the time they fade away.

Months go by.

The Leader asks their teams how the Gameplan is going.

No one remembers what was discussed.

Or worse, the Leader sees that things are not going according to the Gameplan and so throws it out entirely.

I have seen this happen a lot (and have been the person throwing out the Gameplan as well).

It is all too common.

Why is it so common?

Largely, it is because we as Leaders often fail to understand what the purpose of a Gameplan actually is.

There tend to be two ways we get it wrong.

Problem 1

First, many Leaders think that the Gameplan is what tells people what to do.

Here’s the Plan, go do it.

They believe that it is static, a document that everyone will adhere to because the Leader sets it.

One thing I’ve learned about people, they rarely do what we think they will.