Performing within a Team

In a game like basketball, where the officials perform as a team, it is necessary that the officials must do more than simply understand and perform their roles. The successful official must take four steps in developing the team concept:

• Understand and perform his/her role as a primary contribution to the team performance
• Develop an understanding and coordination with your co-officials
• Understand and implement the philosophy and methodology agreed during the pre-game conference
• Be willing to accept any advice given by senior officials, necessary for the success of the team performance.

As these steps unfold, the Instructor/Mentor might find some officials resistant to change. The Instructor/Mentor will have to employ more skills to reorientate the official from individual to team goals.

Now this is the Law of the Jungle
As old and as true as the sky
And the Wolf that keeps it may prosper
But the Wolf that breaks it must die

As the creeper that circles the tree trunk
The Law runneth forward and back
The strength of the pack is the Wolf
And the strength of the Wolf is the pack