kjsab50
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Post by kjsab50 on Mar 24, 2008 17:14:31 GMT -6
Anyone have a good mission statement for their football program that they would be willing to share?
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Post by shocktroop34 on Mar 25, 2008 8:32:24 GMT -6
Here's one I found/stole from somewhere: Football Mission Statement
To build confidence and self-esteem and a feeling of contribution within each player
Give every player a feeling of importance and unified in purpose
Encourage open and honest communication between staff and players
Focus on solutions rather than problems
Respect dignity and faith of each person in our football program
Commitment to team unity and strong leadership, trust each other
Create an environment for innovation and growth
Must believe each and everyone will overachieve, if even the opportunity
Above all else, our student athletes will be athletes of character
Hope this helps...Shock.
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Post by coachwoodall on Mar 25, 2008 8:54:47 GMT -6
your mission statement should be short enough that all coaches and support people should know it by heart.
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Post by rcole on Mar 25, 2008 9:36:15 GMT -6
We are part of a coalition including the family, teachers, administrators, and community. Our purpose is to produce educated men of character who go forward to become strong principle centered leaders, loving husbands and fathers, and selfless servants to their community.
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Post by coachbw on Mar 25, 2008 11:01:40 GMT -6
We have a 4 sentence statement that we use to guide our decision making process. It deals with character, relationships, communication, and football. There is a high school up here in MN that has a great one: Our mission is to develop quality men while playing football to win.
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jamesmthomson
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www.lakewoodfootball.com
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Post by jamesmthomson on Mar 25, 2008 11:15:08 GMT -6
Here is ours. Some is borrowed, some is original. We have it in giant letters on a sign in our weightroom:
• Any Play, Anytime, Anywhere • We Are Exciting To Watch • We Are Great Practice Players • We Never Beat Ourselves • We Represent The Lakewood Community • We All Look The Same-It Makes Us Special • We Are Old School • We Are A Red Swarm On Defense • We Are More Disciplined Than Our Opponents • We Physically Dominate The Line Of Scrimmage • We Work Hard When No One Is Looking • Our Goal Is Perfection-Not Just Winning • Once A Lancer Always A Lancer • Finish
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Post by khalfie on Mar 25, 2008 12:17:30 GMT -6
Our Mission Statement...
"To be the best men on and off the field. We define manhood as being accountable and responsible. We will be who we say we are, and do, what we say we are going to do!"
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Post by coachdalton on Mar 25, 2008 12:24:14 GMT -6
"To develop young men into whole people through positive concentration on (faith,) academics, citizenship, and football. Within these facets, our young men are driven to achieve to their highest potential so they can become leaders of our school, community, and society."
The faith part is in my mission statement. Some of you may work in a community where putting such a thing into a mission statement might cause conflict.
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Post by davecisar on Mar 25, 2008 15:32:08 GMT -6
To develop a love and appreciation for the game of football in our players through a youth football program that focuses on sportsmanship, fundamentals, having fun, teamwork, character development and perfect effort. To establish an environment and system whereby each player and team can have reasonable success with applied effort while being the model youth football program in the US.
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newhc
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Post by newhc on Mar 25, 2008 17:33:25 GMT -6
Hey Do you guys also do a vision statement? How do you get coaches, players, parents and staff members to remember the Mission Statement? Put it on a T-Shirt? Posters?
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Post by leighty on Mar 25, 2008 18:08:31 GMT -6
I can't remember it offhand, but the mission statement from Nick Saban's book is very good.
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Post by CoachJohnsonMN on Mar 25, 2008 20:53:20 GMT -6
By no means is everything in our mission statement original. We have borrowed some ideas from other successful programs but we have intermixed some of our own beliefs.
VISION STATEMENT: “We Control F-A-T-E”
MISSION STATEMENT:
The mission of the Brandon/Evansville Football Program is to create an atmosphere where commitment, preparation, and hard work motivates student-athletes to succeed. “We Control F-A-T-E” through our focus on desire, character, academic achievement, strength development, conditioning, mental preparation, fundamentals, and teamwork. Each Charger will leave this program with the skills to “control his F-A-T-E” in all future endeavors.
*We use the acronym F-A-T-E to stress the four things we feel are important in a game. These four things are under our control. As a coaching staff, we also use these components to stress control in one's life.
F=FORMATION Be in the right place and when you are supposed to be there. A=ASSIGNMENT Know what you are supposed to do. T=TECHNIQUE Know the proper way to execute your assignment. E=EFFORT Do your job with 100% physical, mental, & emotional effort.
As far as how we reinforce this, we have done several things and are always looking for ways to intergrate the ideas more. We bought those little helmet stickers that cover the area between the screws on the front of the facemack/helmet. All it says is "FATE". When players are in the huddle, they know they are accountable to everyone else. We also have a sign that is about 12"x18" that has our school logo on it and it says "WE CONTROL FATE!". It hangs above the door that exits the locker room to the practice field. It has a magnetic backing so we bring it for all road games.
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Post by coachtp on Mar 25, 2008 21:00:01 GMT -6
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Post by wildcat on Mar 26, 2008 6:12:06 GMT -6
Just playing devil's advocate here, but is it really necessary to have a "mission statement" or "vision statement"?
The thing is, I know many people who work for for highly successful organizations and are good employees yet have NO IDEA what the mission statement of the organization is...I guess what I am asking is, what is the purpose of a mission statement? Is it just something that sounds good that gets painted down in the weight room or gets placed on team letterhead or is it something real...something that is the guiding force behind your program?
If you have a "mission statement", how do you reinforce it? How do you know if the mission is being accomplished?
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Post by davecisar on Mar 26, 2008 7:00:54 GMT -6
In business you have to have a purpose, goals and guiding principles that drive decision making. We had ours on the backs of our business cards and every single employee could say it by heart. It was brought up in the interview process and at every staff meeting we ever had, it guided us often in those meetings. It was very effective and helped us grow a company from nothing to the dominant player in 4-5 short years. We would ask ourselves how is this helping us accomplish X? Coveys book "First Things First" explains it much better than I can.
Most very successful people have a personal guiding mission statement. The next time you meet a Tom Osborne, Bobby Bowden, Warren Buffett, Lou Holtz, Les Miles, ask them if they have one. I know John Wooden does.
Quite often they will have it on a card right in their wallet, and are willing to share why it is so important, it would surprise you. Those typcially have family, relationship, spiritual, personal development, altrusitic as well as business aspects to them. Not Pap or something painted on a wall for show, but guiding and real.
Something I personally feel is very important and helpful to a young person, the exercise of seeing what you would like to end up and developing guiding values and principles to realize that vision.
If you dont know where youre going, you will get nowhere soon enough. ( John Wooden)
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Post by dal9000 on Mar 27, 2008 23:30:42 GMT -6
In business you have to have a purpose, goals and guiding principles that drive decision making. We had ours on the backs of our business cards and every single employee could say it by heart. It was brought up in the interview process and at every staff meeting we ever had, it guided us often in those meetings. It was very effective and helped us grow a company from nothing to the dominant player in 4-5 short years. We would ask ourselves how is this helping us accomplish X? So, what was this mission statement? I'm curious now -- it sounds a /lot/ more useful than any other mission statement I've heard of.
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Post by davecisar on Mar 28, 2008 6:51:18 GMT -6
As a provider of software consulting and programming services in leading edge technologies to be the recognized market leader in size and quality in the markets and clients we choose to serve.
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