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Before stepping into the key to successful recruiting, however, I would like to reply to HR trainers, consultants, college professors, and coaches out there who may have concerns about my thesis that "real managers are born not made." The logical extension of this statement is that training (or education) isn't required for managerial development. On the contrary, I firmly believe training is crucial for developing people regardless of their role or description. I contend, however, that training delivers the simplest results when trainees possess the right aptitudes for his or her particular work. If trainees have these innate abilities, they'll naturally be more inclined to hunt relevant training to become better. Plus, their desire to enhance will make them more attentive and more engaged students within the classroom. What this suggests for trainers, consultants, professors, and coaches is that everybody is best served by having a classroom filled with students who possess the aptitudes needed to achieve success in their specific job or the work to which they aspire. Why? Because trainees who possess the innate abilities required for his or her job are going to be more engaged within the training process, more capable of grasping the curriculum, and more motivated to use the knowledge gained in their work.
With that said, let's turn our attention to a lesser-known, recruiting method I hinted at earlier. This personnel recruiting game-changer was discovered over 40 years ago by none aside from the National League (NFL). But, before I reveal this secret, let's learn some NFL history. The key to understanding the NFL's longstanding success lies within the evolution of the NFL's recruiting philosophy from the 1920s to this day. Hence, our historical review begins within the 1920s when the league was initially formed. NFL stars of that era were Thorpe, Red Grange, and Bronko Nagurski to call a couple of. Certainly, these are familiar names to diehard football fans, but in those early years, there have been also lesser-known players like 5 ft. 1 in., 119 lbs., blocking back, Jack "Soapy" Shapiro. Surprised? you'll ask yourself, as I did, "How did a 5 ft. 1 in. back make the roster within the NFL considering the uber-sized, gargantuan of the gridiron we see today?" NO WAY could Mr. Shapiro slip into a team's roster in times due principally to his physical shortcomings. So, what happened to the league's recruiting philosophy between the 1920s and now that significantly reduced the probabilities of athletes like Mr. Shapiro becoming players within the NFL? Answer: The introduction of the NFL Combine. The Combine was formed within the early 1970s to function a talent screening process for school athletes curious about playing within the NFL. By qualifying athletes via the Combine, supported their "natural born" aptitudes for enjoying football, the league consistently filled team rosters with ONLY "good to great" players. [1]
How did the NFL accomplish this recruiting magic? within the science of statistics, there are graphical representations of knowledge called normal bell curves. As students of statistics know, the bell curve is employed to represent the universe of probabilities of a given population being measured. Consider for a flash the population of NFL football recruiting prospects for the years 1920 and 2010 respectively. Now, visualize just beneath this NFL recruiting bell curve there are probability percentages of 68%, 95.5%, and 99.7%. These percentages tell us the statistical confidence level that an NFL prospect will score "weak" vs. "strong" (talent-wise) or somewhere in between. In 1920, the NFL experienced a traditional curve distribution of talent. That is, within the 1920s there was an equal chance (about 50-50) that a professional football prospect would be classified as weak or strong talent. This makes perfect sense and explains why Soapy Shapiro was ready to qualify for the NFL way some time past during a role that competed against players like Thorpe. Essentially, what the NFL recruiting process yielded then was an equal mixture of weak, average, and powerful player talent across the league. For this reason, the football talent within the NFL of the 1920s and 30s, after all, was probably not far better than that of a top-ranked, state high school, championship team today.
Let's fast-forward to the NFL of 2010. Referring once more to the bell curve example, what you see for 2010 represents the extraordinary change in talent recruitment philosophy adopted by the NFL and implemented within the early 1970s via its NFL Combine. As many of you recognize from your statistics courses, the far right or left tail-end of the bell curve is where you discover the "exceptional" members of a given population. within the 2010 NFL world, the far-right positioning of the recruiting bell curve reflects the "best of the best" of recruiting prospects. So, what you see today is an NFL that, via the Combine process, learned the key of the way to recruit ONLY from a pool of the absolute best TALENT available in college sports. Moreover, thanks to the effectiveness of the Combine's aptitude screening process, the NFL not was forced to simply accept under-sized or under-talented, Joe Lunchbucket walk-ons as they did within the league's early years. Nothing against Mr. Shapiro or others like him who braved the professional gridiron with but a complement of physical tools. I even have a little question they were great players in their day. However, players like that are not any longer considered viable by NFL personnel managers/recruiters today because the pool of qualified prospects is now restricted to only the aptitude-rich athletes (in the far right end of the bell curve) - those with the football talent to pass the Combine's regimen of physical and mental tests with flying colors. In effect, via the Combine, the NFL shrewdly found out the way to shrink its population of potential recruits from an enormous number of obtainable college athletes to a fraction of this number to incorporate only the absolute best athletes suited to playing football within the NFL.
The NFL Combine concept is nothing in need of recruiting genius! And, the proof is within the pudding of the NFL's spectacular success. Just check out the NFL's explosive growth over the past few decades: in fan base, audience ratings, game attendance, team merchandise sales, etc. NFL results are through the roof by almost every performance measure. Financial success is great, but where's the proof of this recruiting method's efficacy on the sector of play? Just activate your TV on any given Sunday and watch an NFL game. You'll quickly acknowledge the very high-caliber of talent on each side of the ball. doubtless, all of those players at every position is an exceptional athlete, and waiting on the sidelines, are their backups with more of an equivalent high level of talent. this is often why you barely notice any fall-off in performance when a team's first-string player is replaced with a backup player. What does all of this mean? within the NFL, active players are superb athletes who are the merchandise of their God-given aptitudes as proven by their high scores on a spread of skills, abilities, and agility tests conducted by the NFL Combine. The result: Only exceptional athletes with "natural born" talents for enjoying football are accepted into the NFL.
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