Leading is both simple and difficult.
Younger or less experienced team members often think that leaders have it easier than the men they lead. Younger or less experienced team members do not believe that details matter. Younger or less experienced team members believe that it is easier to lead others by pushing them from behind.
Once you have spent time leading ... you realize that none of these statements is true. Leaders work harder, focus on details, and model from the front when they lead.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, used to say leadership is like a piece of string. Push it and the string will bunch up in failure. Instead, he said, you have to pull.
According to General Eisenhower this represents your chain of influence. If I want my teammates to run faster I must run faster. If I want my teammates to work harder I must work harder. If I want my teammates to make themselves "uncomfortable" I must make myself "uncomfortable", and under no circumstance can I afford to whine while I am working to improve myself.
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This is another one that is like you bring your own weather to a picnic. For this one it's like if you were picked to lead you must act like it 24/7. All of us must never put ourselves above the rest of the team just. We all must realize that the veterans will always try to help and will never not answer a question that they can answer to help you became better as a person or as a teammate. It's up to all of us to never look down on anyone and think what if EVERYONE worked just a little bit harder how much better we would be as a team. Or what could our team do if we all worked to be 200% make every tackle, pass, run or punt that we can and NEVER yes I mean NEVER give up.
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ReplyDeleteNot just captains and coaches are leaders. Everyone is a leader the way a see it. Every senior is a leader to the juniors. Every junior is a leader to the sophomores...and so on. Evey person needs to take it upon themselves to work hard for the full two hours of weight room and conditioning and not just when coaches are watching. I think that is a characteristic of a "leader".
ReplyDeleteI think we have a team full of leaders. Today at fourth quarter Friday, everyone stepped up and encouraged their teammates. We had guys going all out running hills, and this motivated others to try to keep up. Instead of pushing each other, we were pulling each other. We are that much closer to being able to work as one cohesive unit.
ReplyDeleteIt is definitely true that we have many leaders on our team this year. Take for example, last friday as Sean said, that we all motivated each other to really push it. I for one felt on friday that once many of us were able to get past that mental roadblock that "uhhh this is so hot, I'm tired, I'm cramping ect", the task that we needed to accomplish (in this case the hill at the Banta Bowl) became much more fluid and dedicated. I felt that by Jared demonstrating to us how pushing versus pulling a string affects it, it really set the tone for the whole activity. I can only look forward to the challenges that are to come each friday, and believe that we can continue to set examples for each other.
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When Jared pulled the string from the side representing only one person pulling the team, it hardly moved. And from the side of the whole team pulling the string, it moved significantly. I think that after watching this demonstration, it was noticeable on everyone's expression that it proved to everyone how the team will only function correctly and that is by pulling each other. Therefore, when we were running the hills we all pulled each other and let no one give up.
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