In this article, organizational behavior is the grass roots for hockey at Yale University. Last season Yale was ranked number one in men’s hockey. Head Coach, Keith Allain, of Yale’s men’s hockey team applies his organizational behavior knowledge to being a successful Head Coach.
As a former undergraduate student and Yale University men’s hockey goaltender, Keith Allain understands how his knowledge of hockey and organizational behavior need to be applied to have a successful season.
After his four year stint with the Yale Bulldogs and two seasons of hockey in Sweden, Keith Allain found his degree to be quite useful. He worked for Proctor & Gamble as an intern. He then went back to Yale to work as an Assistant to Taylor, the Head Coach at the time. He was Taylor’s assistant for three years, before he went back to Sweden to coach a lower division team. While coaching in Sweden, he was the only coach. He had to make all decisions alone. This is how he was able to raise his confidence.
Allain then worked for the Washington Capitals as a scout for three years and as an assistant for four years. After that, he worked for the St. Louis Blues organization as an assistant for seven years.
In 2006, Allain was offered the job of Head Coach of the men’s hockey team at Yale, when Coach Taylor decided to retire. Allain was able to improve the 10-20-3 men’s team to a 16-14-4 team. He understood how the team needed to work in order to be successful. That is why he looks for very competitive players to fill his roster.
Head Coach Keith Allain uses his blue collar personality to lead his team, aka his organization, to be successful. He formats his practices to replicate game scenarios. I think that organizational behavior is important in any field of work, because everything is based on organizational behavior concepts.
Trevor Goggin
Trevor Goggin
i really enjoyed this article. It seems like Keith really knows what he is doing, and is moving quickly in his career. He knows exactly what a good team needs, and that it takes a collaboration of different roles to accomplish what he set out to do. I think that Keith is going to have a great career, and could probably succeed in almost any group situation.
ReplyDeleteThis article was really interesting. Keith sounds like a smart and motivated man. He's accomplish so much in a short amount of time. I hope that when I graduated I have a success story like this too. Yale prepared him very well for the real world. He sounds like a good leader, which we learn about in class. Also, it is obvous that he works well in groups because he was on the hockey team and is now a hockey coach.
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