Leadership is crucial to the success of any team, business, or group that strives to reach a common goal. Leadership is so crucial to success, that any group cannot function without some sort of leader. Often people are the most qualified for this position among their peers but they are unsure on how to handle certain situations. They can easily make fatal mistakes that jeopardize their group or they can make transformational benefits to their group. At the beginning of my senior football season, I read “The Team Captain’s leadership Manual” by Jeff Janseen. This book gave me a lot of tools to become an effective leader on my team and taught me a lot about filling the shoes of that crucial role. Leaders are categorized in two ways as those
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There is a famous saying in the bronc football program which is simply, “stay the course”. Often things go wrong in competition or in route to completing a goal. The biggest lessons come from weathering the storm. The best are able to accept that something didn’t work, and simply move on. Sometimes when we would play football we would get behind a score or a couple of points. It was important in those situations not to freak out and abandon ship in an attempt to scrap something together and get back on top. There is a call to simply have it in your heart that you are going to end up on top by the end of the game. In football, we would just go back to work slowly grinding away on the opponent with no doubt that we would end up on top and we would repeatedly do it throughout the season. In baseball it is easy as a pitcher to accidentally walk a batter. In that moment leaders are able to not get flustered but focus on the next batter. It is profound idea that a pitcher could be totally calm with only 1 out and the bases loaded as he faces the next batter. Leaders don’t get too excited when something goes right or down when something goes wrong. Instead they have an even-keel mentality that no matter how tough it gets, they can still work through it. It is incredible getting to be on a team where everyone is composed when something goes wrong because we all know that it is alright. Everyone has the same mindset that …show more content…
Interestingly, these four concepts have a lot of overlap between one another. You cannot be composed without having a lot of confidence in your abilities. You cannot have a healthy commitment to your goal without having good character to guide you. Lastly, you cannot be a good leader by example without a significant amount of commitment, composure, confidence, and character. Leaders are needed in so much more than only sports as they are vital for any group to successfully proceed. Leaders are needed in churches, in communities, businesses, and even families. The hardest thing is that many people don’t have the tools or vision of what an effective leader would look and operate like. Because of this, it is important to digest the four characteristics that effective leaders possess and apply them when the opportunities
There is a famous saying in the bronc football program which is simply, “stay the course”. Often things go wrong in competition or in route to completing a goal. The biggest lessons come from weathering the storm. The best are able to accept that something didn’t work, and simply move on. Sometimes when we would play football we would get behind a score or a couple of points. It was important in those situations not to freak out and abandon ship in an attempt to scrap something together and get back on top. There is a call to simply have it in your heart that you are going to end up on top by the end of the game. In football, we would just go back to work slowly grinding away on the opponent with no doubt that we would end up on top and we would repeatedly do it throughout the season. In baseball it is easy as a pitcher to accidentally walk a batter. In that moment leaders are able to not get flustered but focus on the next batter. It is profound idea that a pitcher could be totally calm with only 1 out and the bases loaded as he faces the next batter. Leaders don’t get too excited when something goes right or down when something goes wrong. Instead they have an even-keel mentality that no matter how tough it gets, they can still work through it. It is incredible getting to be on a team where everyone is composed when something goes wrong because we all know that it is alright. Everyone has the same mindset that …show more content…
Interestingly, these four concepts have a lot of overlap between one another. You cannot be composed without having a lot of confidence in your abilities. You cannot have a healthy commitment to your goal without having good character to guide you. Lastly, you cannot be a good leader by example without a significant amount of commitment, composure, confidence, and character. Leaders are needed in so much more than only sports as they are vital for any group to successfully proceed. Leaders are needed in churches, in communities, businesses, and even families. The hardest thing is that many people don’t have the tools or vision of what an effective leader would look and operate like. Because of this, it is important to digest the four characteristics that effective leaders possess and apply them when the opportunities