Gradual Assistant Baseball Coach Leadership Style

I was born into a competitive family and I fell in love with the desire to compete. Everyone who I have been coached by in my athletic career has taught me the importance of winning and how much more enjoyable it is when you are part of a successful team. I processed all my information and I still had been unable to put it all together. I emailed Mr. Spear and I asked him for some advice over the summer as the school year rapidly approached. He got back to me rather quickly and told me various ideas, but one of them caught my eye and it was something that was right there the whole time: Coaching. Since I was young, I have been very blessed to have had the opportunity to learn from so many coaches, I knew it would be a superb opportunity to get myself involved in coaching. It was important for me to find a valuable way to enter into coaching and that’s when I learned the clear way to get involved in coaching is by entering into youth sports. But, I still felt that the coaching part itself was not enough to get me through the year, so I decided to implicate another part of my project. I wanted to learn league

In team leadership, the Hill Model is stated by Northouse (2016) as “to simplify and clarify the complex nature of team leadership and to aid leadership decision making for team leaders and members” (p. 366). This model has several key concepts and practices that this paper will look at and exploit the aspect of influence and processes that people in a groups or teams interact and the force within the group acting to unit all the members or leadership functions. Whether traditional leadership of teams or groups with a formal leader or a self-directed group with no specific leader all benefit from an shared leadership with the attention and focus of all members on the groups process dynamics. This is more so the case in virtual teams benefiting from shared leadership. Team-based structures in organizations have several positive characteristics and are capable of increasing production, allocation and use of resources, effective on making decisions and problem solving, increased quality and services as well as, fluent innovation and creativity, as listed by Parker (as cited in Northhouse, 2016, p. 364).

This course has provided me with a multitude of tools, and it has definitely taught me to put careful thought into every situation as it pertains to change; whether it relates to work, school, or things that are going on in my personal life. These tools are both important and necessary in order to become an effective manager in the future.

Coaches come from many different backgrounds. Some are former players, some are students of the game, and some just want to learn a new skill. Growing up, I have had good coaches, mediocre coaches, and bad coaches. Although our team record, or my personal seasons haven’t always been up to my expectations, each of these coaches have taught me different ways to coach the game. My sport of choice is baseball. I have played for 14 years, and although an arm injury has probably ended my playing days, my love and passion for the sport is still there. When I think of “Why do I want to coach?” I think of three main reasons that attract my interest. These include, I love seeing people reach new heights through hard work, I feel I have a strong yet unorthodox

My goal is to learn as much as I can so that I am equipped to convert my role as the middle manager at my current organization to one that sits at the senior leadership table. I am looking forward to this course developing my critical thinking skills in preparation for my inevitable

Have you had to adapt either your management or motivation style and if so how? What were the results?

Although I believe I have a grasp on this concept, I know that there is much I can learn and improve on over the next 3 to 5 years. With practice and patience from my subordinates, peers, and myself I hope to apply the MBE-A concepts of to involve followers in the decisions-making process, improving overall engagement and attitude towards the organization as well as their professional development (crse 15). Having a few years left at my current duty station, I will actively seek feedback from my supervision, asking for direction, ensuring I move toward a goal of becoming a better leader and using this valuable concept correctly. Along with possessing strong and quality leadership skills, knowing how, when, and which methods are to be used in during different situations will improve mission focus. This often occurs when organizations or sections face change. When I’m faced with change I try to have the cognitive flexibility to use multiple thinking strategies during the planning process. In the future, I hope to be a better NCO and effectively bring change to my sections as positive, enabling members to jump at the

Coaching improves individual or team performance using direction and instruction to learn and build on a skill or work towards a goal.

He was a very gracious, but more importantly, humble interviewee. I wanted to know the road that got the coach that I admire so much to the position he is in today. I started by asking him what made him want to become a coach. He said decided to start coaching because he was fortunate enough to play for two very influential coaches, Lloyd Simmons and David Denny. He told me that he learned more about competing from them than anyone else, and developed the desire to be able to do the same thing for young players as they did for him. He told me that like most coaches, he started as a player. During the summer, he played for the Texas Heat under David Denny. He played for him for two years, and they went on to win the 1997 17u National Championship. He was a 4-year Varsity Starter at Liberty High School in Liberty, TX. He received the awards of All-State Shortstop in both his Junior and Senior year. He then went on to play at Seminole State College in Seminole Oklahoma. In his freshman season there, the team went 58-8 and placed 5th in the National Junior College World Series. Following that season, he underwent arm surgery and transferred to Tyler Junior College as a sophomore. He soon became the starting team captain and second baseman there. A recurring arm injury forced him to hang up his cleats after that season. After his playing days were over, he decided to attend Texas State University and received his Bachelor’s of Science in Exercise and Sports Science. Upon receiving this degree, Coach acquired the position of Assistant football and baseball coach at Hardin High School in Hardin, Texas under Mike Morgan, our present Secondary football coach at Carthage High School. He worked at Hardin for three years, and then received the position of the hitting and infield coach at Texas A&M University at Kingsville while he worked on his Master’s. After two years, he had earned his

This will also help coaches to develop and establish their own personal skills and qualities e.g. self-efficacy and increase their determination to achieve their own goals and reach their own full potential (Reference).

This course has taught me many things about leadership and management in the work place. I have learned that it is extremely important that a leader understand his employees and how certain leadership styles will work more or less effectively on that particular person. Leaders influence people to work to achieve the organizations objectives, so it is vital that a leader has vision for the organization so they can effectively steer the organization down that path. As an employee for Texas Tech Athletics, I have the privilege of working under great leaders while I attend school. By playing sports for my whole life, and with my various work experience I have seen many leaders in action. I have developed my own style of managing and leadership that draws from each of the people who have influenced me. I would consider myself to be a democratic leader. A democratic leader encourages employee participation in decisions, works with them to determine what to do, and doesn’t supervise them closely. I believe as a leader you set the standard of what it means to work hard, effectively, and efficiently. To be an effective leader, you need feedback on what you’re doing, so you can make improvements. By allowing employees to participate in decision-making processes they feel empowered to work and feel like they are contributing to the success of the organization. A leader also shows his employees what to do, by showing them how to properly achieve what I have set as a standard; I need to

From a previous class, Management of organizational change we accepted the task of the Leadership Style Survey, the findings/results were nothing that I would not suspect to be any different from those highlighted by my military career.

LAMS with the additional cost of a two week online interactive course. The E6 to E7 leadership

This movie tells about a man by name “Ken Carter”, who was offered a job to be the coach of a high school basketball team in the same high school he graduated from with the challenge of getting the team winning, this man holds a ‘hall of fame’ record in that school and as such has a reputation to keep. He went on to not only improve the team’s performance on the court but also turn around their academic performance, this team is made up of teenage boys who had a misplaced passion to pursue just basketball and forsaking the importance of a good education. There is a huge followership or fan base of this basketball team which has a big influence on the team, these followers comprises of family, parents, friends, school staff and even the resident community which were densely black people, this basketball team happened to be the pride and hope of that community. This report will outline various leadership theories applied by “coach carter” as he is fondly called to build up his team to success.

Heading into this course, I wasn’t exactly sure what it was about. Aside from reading the description on the KU website, I had no idea what to expect. I thought it would be centered around what would make a good leader, and the things I should do to achieve this. After the first couple weeks, I finally grasped the purpose of this class, and slowly started to work what I was learning into my day to day life. Through this class I have been able to identify what adaptive leadership is and how to apply it to my day to day task as well as how to work within the disequilibrium. I was also given the opportunity to reflect on what I was learning, through journals and amongst my peers through discussion boards, and how I was using my knowledge to identify different challenges I was facing in my life.