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Post by larrymoe on Nov 4, 2014 9:15:38 GMT -6
This past season, we really struggled with our leadership. Our Srs and Captains were pretty much non existent and we sort of floated through the season as a result. We didn't respond well to challenges and just overall seemed to be a rudderless ship at times. We ended 3-6 and lost 3 games by a combined 4 points. All of them where we gave up the lead in the closing minute or two. This is entirely on me. We are starting a leadership council/class to produce better leaders. You can not expect kids to exhibit something they've never been taught.
My question is this- As part of this process we had the kids select 13 players from our returning roster they felt were capable of leading them. From this 13 we are going to interview the kids and select 9 returners and include 3-4 freshmen (they will make up about 1/3 to 1/2 of our team next year- big/talented class). The kids that were selected are going to apply to be on the council. Do any of you have any sample applications or questions you ask in the interview process? I'm really just feeling my way along on this and any help you can give me would be appreciated. Thank you.
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Post by Defcord on Nov 4, 2014 14:06:30 GMT -6
I think asking specific scenario questions is good. For instance when your best friend skips practice on a Thursday how would you respond to that as a leader. Or When your buddy is not going full speed during conditioning or a team drill how would your respond as a leader. I always found that players had the hardest time as leaders when their buddies were in the wrong.
We did a point based summer leadership program too. It worked really well. We split up all of the players up among the leadership groups. They had to chose a name and then that had assigned tasks they had to do. I think there was like 10 things as leaders. For instance if one of their group members missed practice they had to call him and find out why immediately after that workout plus call him the next morning before workouts to make sure he was their. I will have to see if I can find all of the tasks. We just sat around as a staff and made them. It worked pretty well for us.
we never had in season captains though. We rotated captains so that those that were leaders or showed leadership didn't stop because they weren't elected captain. It worked pretty well.
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Post by larrymoe on Nov 5, 2014 9:10:37 GMT -6
I think asking specific scenario questions is good. For instance when your best friend skips practice on a Thursday how would you respond to that as a leader. Or When your buddy is not going full speed during conditioning or a team drill how would your respond as a leader. I always found that players had the hardest time as leaders when their buddies were in the wrong. We did a point based summer leadership program too. It worked really well. We split up all of the players up among the leadership groups. They had to chose a name and then that had assigned tasks they had to do. I think there was like 10 things as leaders. For instance if one of their group members missed practice they had to call him and find out why immediately after that workout plus call him the next morning before workouts to make sure he was their. I will have to see if I can find all of the tasks. We just sat around as a staff and made them. It worked pretty well for us. we never had in season captains though. We rotated captains so that those that were leaders or showed leadership didn't stop because they weren't elected captain. It worked pretty well. For the summer, I'm planning on having 2 players from the leadership team draft their players for a summer competition. Lifting attendance, competitive games, etc. One of those programs that seem to be popping up everywhere. Thank you for your suggestions. |
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Post by fshamrock on May 16, 2018 13:42:18 GMT -6
If any of you guys have a document that you give to the players on your council that outlines what the role is, that would be awesome. I'm thinking about coming up with one but I suck at formatting and making documents look all cool and official.
also I have no idea what I want it to say exactly
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Post by seabass on May 17, 2018 13:24:30 GMT -6
It sounds like you have a good plan for finding the guys that are walking the walk...that stuff tends to be a little easier to measure and a lot of coaches have some cool ways of measuring that stuff....attendance, effort, scoring systems, etc.
The next thing I would be doing is trying to identify who are my best communicators. I'm not necessarily talking about who is the most vocal...a guy can talk all day and still never "say" anything or be understood.
I would come up with some questions that would test a kid's ability to articulate his thoughts to you, the coach, first. I would do that with all of the candidates that make the short list.
After that, I would take some time to observe the "short list" guys, in a team environment (weight room, 7 on 7, summer conditioning, whatever) so you can witness how they communicate with their teammates. I would pay close attention to how their teammates respond to those interactions.
To me, (assuming a player is already setting a good example through his actions) a person's ability to lead comes down to their ability to effectively communicate. Until humans stop using the spoken word as our primary form of communication, nobody can ever lead effectively without the ability to communicate well...kids or coaches.
I wouldn't tell them about the observation period. It needs to happen naturally. If you tell them, "now we will be observing how you interact with your teammates for the next 10 practices" you might see some things getting forced. I would just tell them it might take a few weeks to come up with a decision. After that it's just a matter of paying attention to those guys.
The other thing to think about that's a little harder question is....does your staff have good leaders on it?
Depending on the number of kids's you have on your team, can you find 9 leaders?
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