Leadership in Basketball Case
1. introduction:
“Good leaders are made, not born” (http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/leadcon.html). Nowadays, leaders play a key role in every organization; the future of the company totally depends on the style of its leader. So, what is “the leadership”? The definition of leadership basically is motivating a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal. To become a good leader, you must get through the never ending process of self-study, education, training and experience.
I am a basketball coach and my responsibility is training players who love basketball and have sufficient ability to become a good player. I . In recently, we have been warned that we must change the way in training for the upcoming competitions that held for all teams in this area, which means we have to increase the training time, change the training strategies and the formations as well. That might cause us some problems. The reason is that we have been lose in some friendly-matches recently, and our managements want us to stand as the third at least, As the leader of my team, I am supposed to let them know clearly why we are changing, the importance of this change and make them willing to go towards the change. To do it well, I had set a good example for the rest to follow.
2. Myself as a leader in relation to my immediate work group
Working in this environment made me become a directive and supportive leader; when I received the message from my seniors, I know that I am facing a difficult situation; my team has been trained with the way that made them pleasure and feel comfortable with basketball. Now they are being asked for changed and win the tournament, i should take my action soon and lead them well. Firstly, I asked all members to gather at the court after the training time, I delivered the massage to them and see how far we can improve ourselves. The important part is setting goal, as the coach and the leader, I analyzed each point of each member, which
“Good leaders are made, not born” (http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/leadcon.html). Nowadays, leaders play a key role in every organization; the future of the company totally depends on the style of its leader. So, what is “the leadership”? The definition of leadership basically is motivating a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal. To become a good leader, you must get through the never ending process of self-study, education, training and experience.
I am a basketball coach and my responsibility is training players who love basketball and have sufficient ability to become a good player. I . In recently, we have been warned that we must change the way in training for the upcoming competitions that held for all teams in this area, which means we have to increase the training time, change the training strategies and the formations as well. That might cause us some problems. The reason is that we have been lose in some friendly-matches recently, and our managements want us to stand as the third at least, As the leader of my team, I am supposed to let them know clearly why we are changing, the importance of this change and make them willing to go towards the change. To do it well, I had set a good example for the rest to follow.
2. Myself as a leader in relation to my immediate work group
Working in this environment made me become a directive and supportive leader; when I received the message from my seniors, I know that I am facing a difficult situation; my team has been trained with the way that made them pleasure and feel comfortable with basketball. Now they are being asked for changed and win the tournament, i should take my action soon and lead them well. Firstly, I asked all members to gather at the court after the training time, I delivered the massage to them and see how far we can improve ourselves. The important part is setting goal, as the coach and the leader, I analyzed each point of each member, which