Leadership Presentation
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OzbirnWeek8Assignment.pptxLeadership
Randy Ozbirn
American Military University
SPMT605 B001 Coaching Leadership
Dr. Barry Shollenberger
February 28, 2021
Introduction
The intended audience are coaches, players, and administrators
Coaches train players and spend most of their time providing special skills training
Various aspects of leadership allow coaches to recognize strengths and weaknesses
Coach should practice self-leadership to which allows for more effective and better training
The intended audience for the presentation are coaches, players, and administrators.
Coaches train a coaching staff and players being a leader and providing special skills training to others.
This presentation shows various aspects of leadership that are beneficial to coaches as well as players and administrators and would help unearth some of their strengths and weaknesses.
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Concept of Leadership
The term leadership has no one single definition
The concept of leadership is therefore perceived and promoted in different ways (Haber, 2012)
Traditionally, leadership is transactional, hierarchical, and excusive
Leadership fosters creativity as well as innovation
There are various definitions of the term leadership as scholars and other experts have failed to agree on one common definition.
This has made the concept of leadership to be perceived and promoted in different ways (Haber, 2012).
Traditionally, leadership is transactional, hierarchical, and excusive.
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Concept of Leadership (cont’)
Leadership is considered both an art and a science where people are motivated into achieving a common goal
Therefore, leadership can be defined as the ability to influence people into achieving a common goal (Surji, 2015)
Leadership can be used in improving performance
Leadership is both an art and a science helping people become motivated so that common goals are achieved.
Leadership can therefore be defined as an art and science where people are trained and influenced into achieving a common goal (Surji, 2015).
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Concept of Leadership (cont’)
The concept of leadership has undergone many changes over the decades
Leaders have become more influential, charismatic, and engaging
Leaders work with coaches, players, and administrators to help motivate team members and develop visions to help provide inspiration (Hao & Yazdanifard, 2015)
Leaders have become more influential, charismatic, and engaging as they work towards achieving individual as well as team success.
The many changes to the concept of leadership has seen leaders working with coaches, players, and administrators to help motivate individuals as well as teams.
This developing helps to provide a visions to inspire and motivate the players as well as the team (Hao & Yazdanifard, 2015).
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Useful Resources
5 Ways To Strengthen Your Leadership Development Program
https://rockwoodleadership.org/leadership-development-guide/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9ILA_JqI7wIVMvC1Ch389AEYEAAYBCAAEgJeXPD_BwE
The 5 Kinds of Leaders Every Team Needs To Be Successful
http://www.janssensportsleadership.com/resources/janssen-blog/the-5-kinds-of-leaders-every-team-needs-to-be-successful/
Leadership and the Role of A Leader in Sports
https://believeperform.com/leadership-and-the-role-of-a-leader-in-sports/
Leaders have become more influential, charismatic, and engaging as they work towards achieving individual as well as team success.
The many changes to the concept of leadership has seen leaders working with coaches, players, and administrators to help motivate individuals as well as teams.
This developing helps to provide a visions to inspire and motivate the players as well as the team (Hao & Yazdanifard, 2015).
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Useful Resource (Video)
Leadership Skills: How to Be a Good Manager and Leader
https://youtu.be/iWZbfreEMhA
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Leadership Skills
Leadership skills are considered a valuable asset for coaches, players and administrators alike
Coaches, players, and administrators decide how exceptional and successful a leader is
Leadership skills differentiate between coaches, players and administrators (Mumford et al., 2007)
Leadership skills are a valuable asset for the leader as the decision is determined if the leader is successful and exceptional at being a leader.
Leadership skills also differentiate between the leader and other coaches, players and administrators (Mumford et al., 2007).
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Leadership Skills (cont’)
Communication includes verbal, non-verbal, and listening. Other communication skills include; articulating, expression, explaining, correspondence and leading body language
Leaders should be able to motivate coaches and players into becoming better and innovative
Positivity, as a skill, involves creating a positive atmosphere within the organization
Communication, as a skill, enables leaders to explain their vision to the team. This involves communication skills like verbal, non-verbal, listening, articulating, expression, explaining, correspondence and leading body language.
Leaders should be able to motivate coaches as well as players into developing a better skill set and to be more innovative.
Positivity, as a skill, involves creating a positive atmosphere within the organization as well as within each player and coach.
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Leadership skills (cont’)
A leader has to be creative and must be able to think outside the box
Being more creative involves being able to embrace other cultures, being innovative, and imaginative
Feedback is essential, as the coaches and players requires constant communication concerning performance
Creativity involves thinking outside the box and always thinking of better ways to improve a player’s skill set or how a coach handles a particular situation.
Creativity also requires different skills such as being able to embrace other cultures, being innovative, and imaginative.
Feedback is essential because players and coaches require constant communication concerning their performance.
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Inspire
Inspire is a characteristics of a good leader
A good leader will be able to inspire coaches and players through actions and words which will enable the organization to have a common vision
Great leaders provide inspiration in many different ways
Inspire is a characteristics of a very good leader. A good leaders inspires coaches, players, and administrators trough actions and words.
These actions and words will enable the organization to believe in and strive for a common goal.
There are many different ways in which a leader can inspire any team or individual.
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Inspire (cont’)
Leaders who care about people as much as the organization are able to provide inspiration
Inspiring leaders motivate coaches and players into becoming better performers
A good leader learns from others aside from teaching and delegating
A good leader values the input of others
Leaders provide inspiration to other when they care about people as much as they care about the organization.
A good leader will motivate other coaches and players into becoming a better person.
A good leader will learn from others and value the input that is receive from other coaches, players and administrators.
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Importance of Inspire
Having inspiration raises the performance level of individuals as well as the team
Inspiration ignites creativity and innovation among the coaches and players
Inspiration creates passion among the coaches and players
Having inspiration breeds trust between the coaches and players
Having inspiration is very important because it raises the performance level of not only the team but the coaching staff as well.
Inspiration ignites creativity and innovation among the coaching staff and the players.
When the coaching staff and the players have a passion for a common goal, a passion is created for success.
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Useful Resource (Video)
How To Be A Leader - The 7 Great Leadership Traits
https://youtu.be/2lEp4TVpxgA
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Active Listening
Active listening is a strategy used to improve leadership skills, communication in particular
This strategy encourages strong communication between the coaching staff and the players
Having communication skills is equally important between administrators and the coaching staff
This strategy allows the leader to focus on both the task at hand and the individual performing the task
Active listening is a very good strategy used by leaders to improve leadership skills.
This strategy allows the leader to focus on both the task and the individual who is performing the task.
Communicating is important to improve and encourages the relationship between the leader and team members.
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Components of Active Listening
Comprehend. The listener should pay very close attention to the speaker’s language, both verbal and non-verbal
Retain. Remembering the key points of the speaker
Respond. Confirmation that the listener understands what the speaker is saying
The components of active listening include;
Comprehend what the speaker is saying and provide feedback is very important in active listening.
Retain what the speaker is saying and become involved in the conversation. This will ensure the listener is making mental notes of what the speaker is saying.
Respond with feedback and asking questions is a very positive way to ensure the topic is being understood by the listener.
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Strategic Thinking
Strategic thinking means planning for the future
Strategic thinking, as a concept, can be used to create a competitive advantage for any organization (Haycock, 2012)
Leaders are tasked with implementing strategic thinking
Strategic thinking literary means planning for the future. There are many ways an organization can plan for the future and create a competitive advantage in doing so.
Any leaders can be tasked with ensuring strategic thinking is being used when creating the competitive edge over the competition.
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Principles of Strategic Thinking
Distribute the responsibility of tasks. This empowers others to make strategic decisions
Allow the flow of open information
Use a structured approach that centers on the why, what, and how of an issue
A leader should always ask themselves this question, What does success look like?
The various principles of strategic thinking include;
Distribute the responsibility of tasks allowing others to make very important decisions.
A good leader should always allowing the flow of open information.
A good leader should always approach any situation with wanting to know the why, what and how.
A leader should ask themselves the question of what success looks like and will my actions create that look.
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Importance of Strategic Thinking
Strategic thinking allows for the proper reaction to any crisis (Goldman, 2012)
A good leadership trait means the leader is valued by his/her peers and players due to the ability to plan for the future
Strategic thinking always encourages a team of problem solvers and critical thinkers
Strategic thinking is an effective leadership trait that allows the leader to think about and plan for future of the organization.
This makes the leader valued by the coaching staff, players, and administrators.
According to Goldman (2012), strategic thinking allows for proper reaction to any crisis.
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Influence
Influence is a very essential leadership skill
This skill determines the how successful a leader is
Having influence usually determines a leaders ability to influence players in achieving team goals and objectives
A leader has an impact on the opinion, behavior, and attitude of the coaching staff and players
Influence is one of the most important leadership skills any leader must have. If a leader succeeds or fails is determined mostly by the influence he/she has on the coaching staff and players.
A leader is usually graded by his/her ability to influence the coaching staff and team members in achieving individual and team goals and objectives.
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Importance of Influence
Influence determines the success or failure of a leader
A leader’s ability to influence determines the effort by the organization and its team members
Value and scarcity help build influence
Having influence is very important in having quality leadership skills
Leadership is driven by the influence a leader has on his/her coaching staff and players as well as the influence administrators have on a coaching staff. Having influence is very important in having leadership skills.
Influence not only determines the success of the leader but also the success of any organization
Influence also determines the effort put forth by the coaching staff and by the members of a team or organization.
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Enhancing Influence
Communication style. The leader should learn a communication style that promotes relations.
Consistency. The leader should be consistent in their actions including expectations, approaches and accountability.
Compassion. The leader should show that they care about the team members in all aspects.
The communication style will say a lot about the leader. An effective style will promote and enhance relations.
Consistency in their actions including expectations, approaches and accountability.
The leader should show that they care about the team members in all aspects
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Creativity
Creativity is a valuable characteristic of an effective leader
A creative leader will be able to develop various innovative solutions to any problem
Creativity ensures a leader achieves goals, inspires coaches and players to be creative, and solves problems
A creative leader will develop innovative solutions to any problem an organization is faced with.
This characteristic is very important to ensure a leader achieves goals, inspires a coaching staff and players to be creative, and solves any problem.
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Importance of Creativity
Creativity improves productivity and ensures success of any organization
Creativity allows a leader to think outside the box and gain new perspectives on different ideas
The growth of any organization depends on the generation of novel ideas and implementing these ideas (Lee et al., 2019).
Creativity improves productivity and skill sets as well as ensuring success of any organization.
Creativity also allows a leader the ability to think outside the box and gain a new perspective on different ideas.
The growth of any organization depends on the generation of novel ideas and implementing these ideas (Lee et al., 2019).
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Useful Resource (Video)
Great Leadership Starts With Self-Leadership
https://youtu.be/vlpKyLklDDY
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Self-Awareness
Self-awareness can be defined as being aware of ones own personality
Self-awareness, in leadership, allows the leader to know his/her values, personality, habits, and emotions
By knowing ones self, a leader is better at managing stress and emotions
Being self-aware allows a leader to make better decisions
Self-awareness, in leadership, allows a leader to know more about themselves such as values, personality, habits, and emotions.
Self-Awareness allows a leader to better manage stress and emotions.
Better decisions are usually made when a leader has self-awareness.
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How to increase Self-Awareness
Through the observation of others, especially the coaching staff and players
Through preparation of performance reviews
Observing oneself and receiving feedback from peers
Objective evaluations
Feedback provided by administrators and peers usually provide an individual with enough information for someone to make a decision concerning self-awareness.
Being evaluated will also provide enough information on an individual for a determination about self-awareness.
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Flexibility
Leaders who are flexible are able to modify an approach to a crisis
Flexibility is a leadership trait that allows the leader to respond to environmental changes and respond
A leader is able to adapt quickly to change
A leader can revise strategies and goals to incorporate new changes that will help overcome challenges
Leaders who are flexible are able to modify an approach to any crisis.
Flexibility is a leadership trait that allows the leader to respond to environmental changes and respond.
A good leader is able to adapt quickly to changes.
A god leader will also revise his/her their strategies and goals to incorporate new changes that will help in overcoming challenges.
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Importance of Flexibility in Leadership
Changes sometimes occur in the environment which will require a leader to modify his/her leadership style to be a more effective leader
Flexible leaders adapt to more uncertainties
Being flexible increases creativity and allows a leader to implement new ideas
A leader must remain productive during any change
With many changes taking place in the environment, a leader must also be able to modify his/her style of leadership in order to remain an effective leader.
Flexible leaders are able to adapt to more uncertainties.
Being flexible increases creativity and allows a leader to implement new ideas.
A leader and his/her coaching staff and players must remain productive during the any period of change.
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Conclusion
Being a good leader is an integral part of our lives
A good leader is able to influence others in a positive way and be successful
Leadership traits and characteristics allow a leader to be effective
Special leadership traits like flexibility, self-awareness, strategic thinking, creativity, and active listening make a leader very successful
Leadership is an integral part of our lives.
Leadership involves being able to influence others in a positive way.
Leadership traits and characteristics allow the leader to be effective.
Special leadership traits like flexibility, self-awareness, strategic thinking, creativity, and active listening make the leader to become more efficient.
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References
Goldman, E.F. (2012), "Leadership practices that encourage strategic thinking", Journal of Strategy and Management, Vol. 5 No. 1, pp. 25-40. https://doi.org/10.1108/17554251211200437
Hao Moo Jun & Dr. Yazdanifard Rashad (2015). How Effective Leadership can Facilitate Change in Organizations through Improvement and Innovation. Global Journal of Management and Business Research: A Administration and Management Volume 15 Issue 9 Version 1.0 Year 2015
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