It is not so frequent to see a garment that publicly makes fine saying: “I made a mistake, I apologize”. Unless the coach of the Italian volleyball national team is made, apparently. In everyday life, perhaps it also happens often, but in the closed of the rooms. Instead, the coach of the female and male volleyball national teams did it in front of the world. A few days ago, after Italy-Cuba, according to meeting the qualification for the round of 16 to the blue engaged in the Thai world championship, Velasco said in front of the microphones: «I’m sorry I could not have given more space to Fersino to whom I have not given the second free shirt, I admit my mistakebecause he could have played in the place of De Gennaro in the third set ».
First he had made his homologous CT of the men’s volleyball national team, Ferdinando “Fefè” De Giorgi who the day after the final VNL lost against Poland, wrote a long post published on August 6 on Instagram, in which he said: “On the bench we were wrong to type the order of training on the tablet. An error that should not be made, but that unfortunately happened and put in difficulty the guys with whom I apologize! In “Noi Italia” there is a valiant feeling of profound reciprocity, When there is an error you try to help and improve, we don’t try to guilty try to improve! Those looking for guilty have already lost!».
Meeting him in the DHL offices at Malpensa airport where male Italy found himself to leave for Turin, for the Fipav Cup Men Elite preparation tournament at the World Cup, we asked him what public admission triggered. De Giorgi by opening his disarming smile from Witchhill replied how it was the most obvious choice in the world: «Sincerity, because trust passes through sincerity: it is not that avoiding having made a mistake, nothing is resolved, I believe that indeed who is responsible for a structure as is the case of the staff of a national team, if it is wrong to be honest. We all make mistakes, the players can make mistakes of the balls that cost games, but when it happens it is not that nothing happens, we must look forward ». De Giorgi reiterates the belief that in the long run sincerity is a good investment: «IOr I am convinced honesty in the end pays like competence ».
It will not be a coincidence that the great coaches are often recruited as company consultants in terms of team building, that do in life: they build winning teams, even if they often arrive for different training courses for each. Certainly the two above have shown that they were clear and knowing how to put into practice what most of the training agencies in terms of leadership reports as the first sign of recognition of a good leader, that is, the ability to admit their mistakes to grow the team: an act of courage that, however, – apparently above all in the company – we have often remained to perform for fear that it can be interpreted as a sign of weakness. According to what he writes Paolo Vellani Coach and trainer specialized in leadership and corporate growth strategies in the online magazine of Management we will go up, instead it works exactly on the contrary: “The most common error – and perhaps the most insidious -“, he explains, “it is precisely the resistance that admitted their mistakes. Many leaders fear that recognizing an error can be interpreted as a sign of weakness or incompetence, compromising their image in front of the team. In reality, research shows exactly the opposite. UNo study conducted by the University of Stanford has revealed that leaders who openly admit their mistakes are perceived as more authentic and reliable by 76% of collaborators. This is because intellectual honesty creates an atmosphere of transparency and encourages the entire team to adopt a constructive approach towards errors, transforming them into learning opportunities ».
