Sean McVay says his first team meeting as head coach of the Los Angeles Rams was a bad meeting, even though his players thought he sounded smart, because he believes a leader's effectiveness isn't measured by how impressive their message sounds, but instead by how clearly their people understand what to do with it “But it was exciting. But I think as you look back on it and you really say, like, I’ll never forget, you know, I’m a big believer in, like, people learn in bite-sized increments.” “And the goal isn’t for, like, you to leave a team meeting and people to think, ‘Oh, you sound smart.’ The goal is to communicate, to connect, and making sure that, you know, you’re able to reach guys that have high capacities, but also make sure that, like, hey, when we leave this meeting, is everybody getting the three points or the key things that we’re really trying to be able to get across?” “And, like, I ripped through a culture thing our very first team meeting. I mean, I’m practicing the speech. We were staying in a hotel at the time because our house wasn’t done. I’m practicing my opening speech, you know, with my wife the night before.” “And I mean, I ripped through, like, 20 minutes, you know, and you could tell, you know, it’s like, man, I was excited. I’ve been prepared for this. I gave a lot of information.” “You leave the meeting, you ask people, ‘Hey, what’d he say?’ ‘I don’t know, man. He sounded smart.’ Well, that’s a bad meeting then.” “You know, but it’s evolved to where it’s like, all right, hey, how do you make sure that you’re more deliberate in terms of teaching, connecting, that give and take and that feedback? And it’s been evolving.”