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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I have never, in my young life, worked in or known anyone who has had a boss that gets you “ready to work” when it’s time to do your job.
You come to work ready to work. That’s the expectation, whether you’re flipping burgers or playing hockey for hundreds of thousands of dollars or more a year.
Look at it this way. A university professor’s job is to teach, not to get the students ready to learn. It’s their job to provide the information that prepares them for the test, not literally sit there and make sure they take it all in and study enough.
When you’re adult, you come ready when you’re supposed to be ready. There’s no one out there holding your hand. Guys like Tkachuk? They come ready, you can tell. He’s getting the exact same info everyone is, so what’s stopping them?
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No. People need motivation in pretty much every walk of life, especially when you have groups of people with dynamic personalities striving towards shared goals and going through ups and downs over a period of time. Its human nature and its pretty obvious if you look at any organization.
If your example was correct, the teacher wouldn't even be needed, the students could just learn directly from the text book. A good teacher can certainly inspire students to be more engaged with the material and thus enhance their learning and performance.
Anyways, I don't want to make this about GG because I think he deserves a bit of a break from the criticism. But this notion that the coach has no motivational responsibilities is false. There is a reason people value coaches/managers/mentors/teachers/leaders and companies pay big bucks to improve that in their organizations.