Shirleys Hardball Case Study

Shirley did not have good leadership skills for many of reasons. Shirley did not give out directions, she did not give negative or positive feedback, Shirley was very defensive, and she did not listen or care about her players. Shirley showed no type of emotion with her players, and because of this it caused her team to loss many of games. Some people might assume because Shirley was young that that would be the reason why the team had so many problems but I beg to differ because Shirley was very successful with the soccer team, Shirley was just not comfortable with basketball as she was in soccer and that is ok, but Shirley should have trusted her team more like Shirley wanted her team to trust her. A great example of Shirley bad leadership skills was when she sat Paula out of the game and did not communicate with …show more content…
Even still if she did not take inconsideration of what her players experience and suggestions of last season she should have been clear about what she expected of her players for the season. She also should have given feedback to her players so they would know what they were doing right and wrong. For, example Shirley wanted the team to use a certain type of offense and she claimed that it had been proven to work and how a JV team she once coached picked it up in two weeks and her teenager team had picked it up quickly also. Although, this might be true but when she realized it was not working for this Varsity team she should have went back and revalued the situation and came up with a different strategy, rather that meant changing up the offense all together or simply talking to her team and re-teach them the offense