By Shane Dreiling
Director, TeamArete
- Foster
a Family Environment
The ultimate leadership is servant leadership. Treat your program like a family bound by
honesty, trust, and collective responsibility.
Draw out the best from people and help them get to where they want to
go.
- Treat
each other like family and continue that relationship beyond career.
- Encourage
and develop collective responsibility.
- Build
relationships on honesty and fairness, developing trust and earning
respect along the way.
- Don’t
be too proud to receive input from your staff and players.
- Be a
servant.
- Teach
Individual Sacrifice
Continually remind your team that while individuals will
be taken care of, the vision of the team is more important than the individuals
that make up that team.
- Desire
the success of each individual.
- Take
the hits for your team…protect your players.
- Reward
effort.
- Teach
what’s important to the vision.
- Allow
people to get close.
- Establish
Good Habits
Be ready for success, understanding what must be
accomplished each day. Success is second nature with good work habits. Purpose establishes your discipline and
makes you more focused.
- Organize
your day, be prepared and do your homework…your competitor is!
- Take
care of unpleasant things first.
- Delegate
with your staff and utilize resources.
- Pay
attention to details and don’t hesitate to take notes.
- Paying
the price of hard work makes you less willing to surrender. If you have a great work ethic and
have begun to discipline yourself, self esteem naturally follows. As Rick Pitino says, “You must deserve
victory to feel good about yourself.”
- Cultivate
Self Esteem
Confidence and humility builds self-esteem and takes
people to greater heights. People that
feel good about themselves are the ones that consistently achieve.
- Believe
in your players and staff.
- Be
positive and don’t hesitate to encourage.
- Always
see victory!
- Everyone
wants to believe they have value.
- Self-esteem
is vital to achieving and has to be earned to have significant value.
- Make A Commitment to Character
Know that before you preach character, you must model
class. A man built on strong building
blocks never falls under his foundation.
- Traits
necessary: Humility, strong work
ethic, honesty, integrity, personal responsibility, fairness and desire
to trust in those around you.
- Be a
role model.
- Convictions
above convenience.
- Recruit
high character people.
- Teach
personal responsibility and self discipline.
- Set
Demanding Goals
The team’s goals must be worthy of the team’s
commitment. Challenge yourself and your
team to reach new heights, understanding that failure is not permanent, just
instructional.
- Start
out simple. As you start having
success, make goals more demanding.
- Focus
on the Task at Hand
- Admit
your weaknesses and set goals to overcome them. Don’t be content with small successes. Use those successes to work towards
larger successes.
- Be
Ferociously Persistent and take care of business.
- Stick
to your plan of attack and realize that the goals in your life are a
marathon, not a sprint.
- Master
the Art of Communication
The goal is to connect with your team. Do they know how much you care? Focus on their needs as much as yours and
understand that communication requires more listening than it does speaking.
- Strive
to be a better communicator.
- Communicate
your goals and needs to other people.
- Don’t
feel the need to be right all the time.
- Learn
how to relate to people, no matter their position.
- Remember,
communication is less about speaking than about listening.
- Establish
Consistent Discipline
Preach the pursuit of excellence. Discipline is the act of consistently
performing good habits over an extended period of time. Continually remind your team to focus on the
vision!
- Be
honest, fair and rich in integrity.
- Demonstrate
respect for authority.
- Pass
the mirror test, “Did I give the best of myself today?”
- Confront
problems head on.
- Embrace
personal responsibility, which is discipline defined.
- Turn
Negatives into Positives
Realize that a positive outlook will keep your players,
staff and program motivated. You don’t
have a good day, you make it a good day!
- Being
positive is an attitude. Block
out negativity around you.
Surround yourself with positive people.
- Four
stages of failure: Recognize,
admit, learn, forget
- Make
the big time where you are!
- Continue
to keep the faith in your vision.
- Find
a way…there is one!
