3 Point Care Consulting

10/23/2026

What if the biggest reason your employees can't make decisions without you... is YOU? 🫵

Think about it. An employee walks into your office with a problem, you give them the answer, and everyone moves on. You feel like you've helped, but tomorrow they're back with another question, and the next day it's something else.

Sound familiar?

Here's something I've learned over 25 years of officiating basketball and working with leaders: The more decisions you make for people, the fewer opportunities they have to learn how to make them themselves.

Yesterday on LinkedIN, I shared a scenario about an employee making a decision you completely disagree with. But there's a bigger leadership lesson hiding in that situation.

Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say isn't a statement. It's a question.

In this week's 3 Pointer Friday, I'm sharing three ways to build a team that makes great decisions without you constantly having to blow the whistle.

🏀 Here's my question: Are you developing confident decision-makers, or have you unintentionally trained your team to depend on you?

Your job as a leader isn't to make every decision for your team. It's to develop people who have the confidence, judgment, and accountability to make great decisions when you're not in the room.

10/19/2026

10/16/2026

What I didn't realize until the audience started checking their phones.
🤳📲

Eighteen minutes into my keynote, something went wrong. Then my backup plan failed. And suddenly, the audience I'd worked so hard to engage was starting to slip away.

For 25 years, I've officiated basketball games where thousands of people are watching, the clock is running, and there's no time to second-guess every decision.

But standing on that stage reminded me of something I've seen leaders struggle with throughout my career.

We get so focused on fixing what's broken that we sometimes miss what's actually at risk.

It's a mistake I've seen in conference rooms, leadership meetings, and on the basketball court. And it can cost you a lot more than a few minutes of frustration.

This week's 3 Pointer Friday shares three lessons from that experience and how leaders can make better decisions when their original plan falls apart.

Check it out: https://3pointcareconsulting.com/post/when-plans-fail-leadership-begins
🏀 When the Plan Falls Apart, Leadership Begins.

Here's my question: When your plan stops working, how do you know when to stop trying to fix it and start doing something different?

The video failed. The backup failed. The sound failed. But the keynote didn't have to. The biggest threat wasn't the technology failing. It was allowing that technology failure to become a failure of leadership. Because when the script fails, the l

10/09/2026

🍌 If Jesse Cole had listened to everyone telling him how baseball should be run, the Savannah Bananas probably wouldn't exist as we know them today.

Think about that.

He challenged traditions, eliminated revenue-producing advertising, and built a business around one simple philosophy: Fans First.

Decisions that probably sounded crazy to people who believed there was only one way to run a baseball team.

Two weeks ago, I got to experience that philosophy firsthand when I stopped by Grayson Stadium to buy a T-shirt for my daughter.

The team wasn't even in town, yet I ended up on the field helping collect baseballs and left with three official Banana Balls.

Nobody was selling me anything. Nobody was trying to impress a crowd. It was simply their culture at work.

And that's what struck me.

The Bananas didn't build something extraordinary by making the same decisions as everyone else. They built it by having the courage to make different ones.

This week's 3 Pointer Friday breaks down three leadership decisions behind their success and what every business leader can learn from them.

Here's something worth thinking about:

What decision would you make differently tomorrow if you weren't worried about how things have always been done? 🍌

👇 I'd love to hear your perspective.

https://3pointcareconsulting.com/post/They-Broke-The-Rules

09/25/2026

The worst leadership advice might be: “Just make the right decision.”
Because sometimes there isn’t one.

This week I traveled to 3 states, spoke at 3 conferences, and delivered 4 presentations. And somewhere along the way, I kept coming back to something officiating taught me years ago: some calls live in the gray.

Take a block/charge play. Two experienced officials can watch the same close play and see it differently. Neither is guessing. Sometimes, the play is just that close.

Leadership is the same. Hire the experienced candidate or the one with more potential? Give someone another chance or make a change? Move now or wait? You can gather more information, but eventually someone has to make the call.

Confidence isn’t knowing you’re right. It’s being willing to make the call when the answer isn’t obvious.

That’s this week’s 3 Pointer Friday.
👇 What decision are you waiting to be 100% certain about?

https://3pointcareconsulting.com/post/sometimes-there-is-no-right-call

09/16/2026

Leaders waste too much time responding.
And it may be one of the reasons leadership feels exhausting.

On the basketball court, players are constantly saying things to me:
“Ref, he’s holding me.”
“Watch #34.”
“He’s been doing that all game.”

Those are statements.
I don’t need to answer every one of them.

But ask me:
“Ref, can you watch #34 holding me when I come around the screen?”

Now we can have a conversation.
I’ve learned the same thing applies in leadership.

Employees. Families. Customers. Teams.

People are going to tell you what they think all day long.
But does everything they say actually require a response?

Learning the difference between a question and a statement can save you time, energy—and a lot of unnecessary conflict.

🎥 Here’s how I explain it from the court.
What are you answering today that never actually needed an answer?

09/13/2026

Imagine spending years preparing for a moment… and then getting 3 seconds to prove you’re ready. 🏈

Today, 7 NFL(National Football League) officials get that moment.

They’ll be nervous.
They’ll be excited.
And at some point, something will happen they weren’t expecting.

Sound familiar?

It’s no different than the first day of a new job. Someone believed in them enough to say:

You’re ready.

Will they get every call right? Nope.

But they weren’t hired to be perfect.

They were hired to trust their training, step up, and MAKE THE CALL when the moment comes.

That’s leadership too.

You’re never going to feel 100% ready for every decision.

Sometimes you just have to step onto the field.

LFG. 🏈🔥

09/13/2026

Imagine spending years preparing for a moment… and then getting 3 seconds to prove you’re ready. 🏈

Today, 7 NFL officials get that moment.

They’ll be nervous.
They’ll be excited.
And at some point, something will happen they weren’t expecting.

Sound familiar?

It’s no different than the first day of a new job. Someone believed in them enough to say:

You’re ready.

Will they get every call right? Nope.

But they weren’t hired to be perfect.

They were hired to trust their training, step up, and MAKE THE CALL when the moment comes.

That’s leadership too.

You’re never going to feel 100% ready for every decision.

Sometimes you just have to step onto the field.

LFG. 🏈🔥

09/04/2026

𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁… 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝘂𝘁.
That happened to hundreds of NFL🏈 players this week.

For months they trained, competed, studied the playbook, and fought for a spot.
Then somebody had to make the call.

Not because every player released was bad.
Because there are only so many roster spots.

And I kept thinking about how often leaders avoid making that same decision.
We add another meeting. Another initiative. Another responsibility. Another “priority.”

But almost nothing ever comes off the roster.

Eventually the problem isn’t effort.
It’s capacity.

Sometimes leadership isn’t deciding what else your team should do.
It’s having the courage to decide what they should stop doing.

That’s what I’m digging into in this week’s 3 𝘗𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘺:

“T𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗜𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗱𝗱. 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝘂𝘁.”undefined

Before Q4 gets moving, ask yourself one question:

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗿𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝘂𝘁?

Read the article here and let me know what you think 👇

Great leaders don’t just decide what matters. They’re willing to decide what no longer does. The question heading into Q4 isn’t only “What should we add?” It may be: What are we still carrying because nobody has been willing to make the cut?

08/28/2026

You’re probably not waiting for more information.
You’re waiting to feel certain.
That feeling may never come.

🏀 Referees don’t get unlimited time.
We see the play.
We process it.
We make the call.

Leadership should work the same way.

This week’s 𝟯-𝗣𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆: 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗪𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘆
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3 things to practice:

1️⃣ Know when you have enough information.
2️⃣ Put a clock on the decision.
3️⃣ Make more small calls so the big ones get easier.

You don’t need certainty.
You need the courage to 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹.

What decision are you overthinking right now?

https://3pointcareconsulting.com/post/stop-waiting-for-certainty