High Performance Teams

So how good a team member are you? How good is your team?

Are you as good as the 1986 Giants?

The 1986 New York Giants season was one of the most successful seasons in the professional American football franchise's history.

The 1986 Giants had been ranked as one of the greatest NFL teams of all time by fans, and members of the media.It was this Giants team that popularized the practice of the "Gatorade shower", which entailed the players dousing members of the coaching staff with Gatorade near the end of a victorious game.

When we think of what the Giants had to overcome (first Superbowl in 30 years, and had come from an abysmal record only some three years earlier), they as a team and as individuals demonstrated:


- high level of trust
- defined roles and expectations
- set plays that played to individuals strengths 
- ability to honestly call a spade a spade 
- positive team talk before during and after 
- focus, vision, goals
- measure and positivity , game plan, calculated risk, open comms 

As Individuals they were:

- intrinsically motivated
- clear on how they attributed success and they had
- clearly defined goals.....constantly reviewed
- daily self assessment 
- driven by positive self talk 
- mindful of daily thankfulness 


How successful you are as an individual and as a team depends on how well you embody and develop some of these characteristics.