Service of Practice: Is it Necessary or Can You Work or Play Fine Without it?

June 14, 2011 - PRLog -- European youth soccer teams clock in at three practices to one game a week said Rick Wolff, host of WFAN’s “The Sports Edge” on Sunday mornings. The inverse is true for young soccer players in this country he said, according to PR, marketing and communications specialist Jeanne Byington, J M Byington & Associates, Inc. She wrote about the “Service of Practice” on The Importance of Earnest Service, a blog.   
   “I’m a believer in on the job training but the smartest office workers and best athletes need to perfect some skills and learn the rules of a sport or culture of a business even in something as obvious as person-to-person contact,” wrote Byington. “Regardless of the burgeoning number of ways we have of contacting one another these days, we don’t always do so.  If nothing else, a person needs to learn to listen, follow instructions and remember the step-by-steps to successfully complete the simplest task. It can take a while, less time with practice,” she noted.
   “What’s the rush to play before we have basic skills? Do we have no time to train or to practice whether in sports or at work? Does this approach affect the quality and expectations of our young athletes and workforce?”
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