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Post by Coach Bennett on Dec 6, 2018 8:50:23 GMT -6
Coaches,
I admit I've been guilty of saying, "we need someone to step up and be a leader" and other phrases to that effect without offering any real way to do it.
I wouldn't expect to tell our athletes we need great double teams on a 3 tech without providing them reps and feedback to do so.
To that end, do any of you have an in-season leadership curriculum or reps or concepts that you utilize to essentially provide reps much like you'd do for a hard skill such as reads or meshes or spilling or...?
Thanks in advance.
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Post by brian3413 on Dec 6, 2018 9:10:04 GMT -6
Book group. We developed a leadership team this year consisting of 6 seniors, 4 juniors, and 2 sophomores. They read a book (Chop Wood, Carry Water). Our head coach assigned them a certain amount of chapters to read a week. On Thursdays after our pasta dinner the leadership team would meet and talk about the book and talking points for the team. We meet as a team on Sunday night to go over film from previous week. We also do a dinner, after eating we split the team up into small groups with one or two leadership council members leading a discussion.
It was our first year, overall it was beneficial, but we have some areas we want to improve on it. The leadership council developed leadership skills by working with our head coach and reading the book, then practiced the skills with small groups from the team.
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Post by Coach Bennett on Dec 6, 2018 12:21:40 GMT -6
Book group. We developed a leadership team this year consisting of 6 seniors, 4 juniors, and 2 sophomores. They read a book (Chop Wood, Carry Water). What did you like about the book? Was it effective? What book, if any, will you use this year? |
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Post by brian3413 on Dec 6, 2018 12:56:52 GMT -6
Book group. We developed a leadership team this year consisting of 6 seniors, 4 juniors, and 2 sophomores. They read a book (Chop Wood, Carry Water). What did you like about the book? Was it effective? What book, if any, will you use this year? The book is a really, really easy read, super short chapters and short in general. It is also told as a story (I believe technical term is a Fable, but I'm not sure), and not just a biography or informational. If your team culture is about the process and not the product it is a perfect book for high school. I know that it is used a lot as a team read, so I bet there is a lot out there on how to implement it with a team. Not sure about next year. We have talked about using it again since it was our first year doing this and we want to improve our delivery. We have also talked about Energy Bus or another John Gordon book, 7 Cs or something like that. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2018 14:59:40 GMT -6
I know this isn't helpful in any way, but as a Tennesee fan, I need to beg you to please, for the love of all that is holy, don't take this to next level by proclaiming your team to be Champions of Life or say they have 5 star hearts.  It's my opinion that "leadership" isn't something you can teach with a drill or even a program and I feel those things tend to be wastes of time. When players really care about something, they step up and naturally become leaders. If you can get them to care, "leaders" will emerge on their own, but getting them to care in the first place should be the goal. |
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Post by badtotheflexbone on Dec 6, 2018 20:30:33 GMT -6
My thoughts, you can coach leadership on the fly and there is leadership opportunities just about everywhere if you look
In the beginning, coaches do everything, get on players to hustle, yell at them to hurry up and get out the locker room, little things of that nature. There comes a point in time where it becomes numb, coaches begin to tire of saying the same things and players get tired of hearing the same voice. This is where team ownership and teaching leadership comes into play. You begin to give ownership to leaders so they can reinforce these habits onto the team.
Believe it or not, these kids may not know what to do as a leader even if they are appointed or by natural progression of being the most aggressive athlete.
Quick example, I had a kid who was super vocal but his "leadership" skill consisted of yelling at kids to "Hurry up!" or "Stop walking!" Simply put, he did not know what else to do. During warm-ups, the new kids out for football would have no idea how to line up and he would yell at them to "Line up!". Leadership opportunity here, I pulled the kid aside, explained to him this is how you be a leader, instead of yelling at kids to line up, go and physically show them where to line up. Again, something that may seem so simple yet until it was explained to him, he genuinely had no idea.
These opportunities occur quite often. First out the locker room, stop walking on the field, quiet in a huddle, etc. Also let "leaders" know what message that sends to their teammates when they take their sweet time out the locker room? First to jump in a drill, quiet when coaches are explaining a drill. As you already know, there's a huge difference when coaches are telling players to be quiet versus when its a peer telling his own teammates to stfu.
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