Nick Underhill: Players organizing a Players-Only Meeting

Right on Geezy! I played pee-wee football for a taskmaster coach who went to training camp as a RB for the Washington Redskins several years in the late 70s. You could get tackled in the end zone while scoring a TD, and he'd have you running laps on Monday because you should've been "untouched" on that run if you had displayed the proper "hustle". Run for 60 minutes on gameday, or run ALL week....your choice. We got the message real quick about attention to details, and all of a sudden, a team that hadn't won a game in 4 seasons (often losing by 30+ points) was competitive in every game, finishing 2-4-1 on the year. Our worst loss was 28-0 to the annual league champs who hadn't lost a game in over 10 years. Other than that, we had 2 losses of 14-0, and the fourth loss was 8-0. We feared our coach, but we LOVED him, because playing competitive football was a LOT more fun than getting your arse kicked 48-0 or 72-0 every week. He wasn't abusive, verbally abusive, or emotionally abusive...he was just TOUGH and held people accountable. "YOU allowed that sack and got your QB creamed"....it was embarrassing to be called out in front of all your teammates...but then he would call ALL of the OL together on the sideline and coach technique in the game. "When the NT does THIS (and he would be the NT), use your hands to jam his pads like this and parry him AWAY from the play." Valuable instruction and demonstration to a bunch of 12-13 year olds. That NT went from a 1-man wrecking crew in the 1st half, to INVISIBLE in the 2nd half. But just as quick as he'd call you out in front of teammates for your mess up, he'd praise you in front of those guys for playing well...."Jimmy shut him DOWN in the 2nd half and put him on his arse every other play." He was COACHING and we were learning.
in your present job, do you look for this same type of environment