Football Positions

Business Structures

Roles/Responsibilities

Owner

CEO

Ensure results are achieved

General Manager

Human Resources

Assembles the team

Head Coach

Strategic Management

Is all about the games with the primary function being to come up with the game plans and implement the strategy

Coordinators, Position and Specialty Coaches

Tactical Management

Target specific objectives with expertise that perfects necessary and relevant skills for the job

Players

Staff

Makes it all happen with each individual filling a role in a function that has been explicitly defined and clarified

What Happens in Football

The Possibilities in Business

Talent has been chosen based on the needs of each specific position/role.

Recruiting by audition to see if candidates have what it takes to do the job.

Individual skills are tightly aligned with the duties required of each position.

Defining job responsibilities and aligning them to specific skills needed to carry out responsibilities.

It’s never about just one person, even though there tends to be greater focus on the quarterback. 

Creating interdependencies between roles so that the “catch” is as important and well utilized as the “throw.”

Offense and defense are equally important but vary in level depending on the opponent being played in each game.   

Strategizing your own offensive plan to hit the marketplace and have protection and defense mechanisms set up as well.

Praise for a job well done is embedded in the culture of the game and support for one another is shown with hugs and pats on backs.

Sharing the happiness that goes along with success regardless of who individually attains it.

If someone makes a mistake, teammates don’t criticize each other because they know it may very well be them next time.

Avoiding focus or dwelling on error. Just fix it.

Excitement of success, disappointment in failure and exhilaration of winning is shared across the team.

Working as one whole unit with each individual bringing his or her own strengths.