Tim Corbin transformed a dormant college baseball program into a national power at Vanderbilt University. He did this by way of transformational leadership in the lives of the men he coached. A look into a few components of the dynasty that is Vanderbilt Baseball.
Three Types of Communicating Standards
Regardless of the sport. A championship team has standards. Regardless of the business, a Fortune 500 company has standards. Regardless of the school district, a high performing school has standards. The first task of a leader is not to cast vision. It’s not to change the culture. It’s not to create goals for sales, wins, or scores. The first task of a leader is to create and implement standards.
Creating A Talent-Developing Culture
In 1921, a young pioneer of educational psychology at Stanford University put his new test into action. Lewis Terman was the publisher of the world’s most trusted test of intelligence. The Stanford-Binet was created as a tool to measure Intelligence Quotient (IQ) in 1916 and quickly became a trusted source of evaluation. The Stanford-Binet IQ test featured a series of reasoning and knowledge questions ultimately measuring a person’s intelligence. In the education field it is still to this day one of the most reliable measuring tools for intelligence. Five years after it’s inception, the Stanford-Binet IQ test would be used to study a group of uniquely talented young minds.