Player- Coach Series: Why You May Be Failing as a Player Coach

If you’ve ever heard the sound of hundreds of plates smashing all over the floor around you will know three things. 

1) it is loud - the kind of noise that makes time both slow down and speed up all at once 

2) it is dangerous - sort of the grown up version of one of the games my children play where the floor is lava and if you step on the shrapnel your feet will be destroyed and

3)...this is the point I really wanted to make… you are spinning too many plates and you are spinning them badly. 

If you’ve been guilty of this, as I have, then chances are you are a high achiever, a big contributor to the team and you’re trying to lead your team at the same time. And it is not easy.

Maybe you are the sort of person who wants to set the targets, lead the meetings, present the presentation, cook the staff lunch and build the office. 

Maybe you’re the sort of person who wants to hire the team, do the marketing, close deals and arrange the annual work outings. Perhaps you are the sort of person who is first in and last out, the person the buck stops with and the person the company vision started with… 

If that’s you then you’re a player-coach, my friend.

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