By Dennis Skley, zapier.com “Giving feedback turns out to be the unnatural atomic building block atop which the unnatural skill set of management gets built,” wrote Andreessen Horowitz co-founder and venture capitalist Ben Horowitz. Despite being the number one driver of our personal and professional development, effective and actionable feedback can be incredibly hard to give. Emotions get […]
4 Ways Failing Makes You A Better Leader
By Deep Patel, www.forbes.com Failure can be a leader’s greatest lesson. Why? It can take falling down to help you find the right path to success. There are many people who have failed miserably in business before eventually hitting it big. And while the initial failure may have been difficult to swallow, each person achieved even better results later on. […]
How to Create the Perfect Organizational Culture
By Dan Rockwell, leadershipfreak.blog The future of organizations is determined by the ways we choose to relate to each other. Imagine: It helps to know where you want to go before you start down the path. Imagine an organization that functions perfectly. What do people believe about themselves in your perfect organization? How are you functioning in […]
How To Build Your Leadership Capacity
By Jeff Boss, www.forbes.com When I was going through selection and training for a particular SEAL team, one of the first things the instructors did was send the class a message about leadership: they cut the majority of the officers and senior enlisted from leadership positions and replaced them with junior members. The reason behind this was […]
Why Michael Sam’s and Others’ Announcements Matter
Recent Public Announcements by Athletes About Sexual Orientation Over the past two weeks three current collegiate student-athletes have publicly announced that they were either homosexual or bisexual. The most recent, Michael Sam of University of Missouri, is a high profile Division I football player with an almost certain NFL career. [Read the NY Times article […]
Expecting Athletics Integration
[Part 3 of 3. You can find Part 1- Stop Treating Coaches Like Adjunct Professors, and find Part 2- Stop Treating Collegiate Athletics Like High School Sports here.] The concept of integrating athletics and student-athletes into the overall campus experience is discussed often, and more often it is misunderstood. Much of the misunderstanding is caused […]
Stop Treating Coaches Like Adjunct Professors
Part 1 of 3 All coaches are expected to recruit, mentor, develop and support student-athletes. These are all essential elements of collegiate coaching and also part of any institution’s core mission. Tenured professors do research, publish and advise students because adjuncts are not expected to perform these core institutional functions. Coaches, especially part-timers, are often […]
PoA #017: Complaints Happen, Are You Ready?
No matter how sound your management and leadership practices are, things happen. With hundreds of student-athletes participating each year, it’s inevitable that some will have concerns, complaints or issues they will express to the Athletics Director (or higher authority). So what do you do? Do you have a plan in place? Are there policies or […]