Leadership

Seven Basketball Leadership Essentials

Seven Leadership Essentials

After researching the topic of leadership, developing and recognizing leadership over the years, I believe in applying these seven leadership essentials to coaching. The Center for Creative Leadership is a very good resource for leadership practices, strategies and articles to help you formulate your leadership values and develop your abilities. Everyone wishes we had the essentials of great leadership early on in our lives, careers. Some may have, some did not.

Such feelings are very common among coaches and teams. Many of us would be surprised to know that the student-athletes we coach believe that lessons in leadership would have been helpful to them as far back as junior high school.

Becoming a leader does not happen over night, it is acquired over years of life’s lessons.

Seven Leadership Essentials:

Who am I?

As a coach, student-athlete or parent, understanding who we are, how we think and knowing our areas of strength and weakness are vital to developing leadership qualities. As a coach understanding these traits will help us look at the ways in which our players respond to us, the effect we have on our players and how to establish a connection with them.

What is authentic leadership?

There are different meanings for authentic leadership. As coaches authentic leadership is an authenticity and refers to being open, honest and real. Look at the leaders around us. What traits do they have? What actions do have we observe that we respect? Find those traits and actions and use them to develop our authentic leadership skills.

How does leadership exist in teams?

Student-athletes learn leadership through participating on teams. That is no secret. For years businesses have looked for college graduates that have also participated on teams for their leadership abilities. Have you looked at how you are imparting your leadership knowledge on your student-athletes? Leadership is about working well with others in everything we do. The lessons in leadership learned on teams are applied to life as well.

How do I communicate?

How we use words, both written and verbal, is very important. The written and verbal world is powerful. Teach your student-athletes that communication is a two-way process. The most vital part of communicating is listening. Listen first, speak second. How we listen is as important as listening itself. Listening intently: making eye contact with who is speaking to us and using the “3-Seconds in the lane” rule before speaking (pausing 3 seconds before responding) will let people know what they are saying is important to us and we are engaged in the conversation.

What do I do with conflict?

Responding to conflict effectively and appropriately is essential. Be able to understand and teach that conflict is not “bad”, but important to improving leadership. First, identify for yourself what conflict is and know how you handle it. Evaluate each situation after it occurs. Understand how the situation went and if the resolution was beneficial.

How do my values affect my actions?

Our values help determine our actions. Make understanding your own values a priority. Determine if your value structure mimics your actions. We must try to align ourselves with people of similar values. Those around us (assistants, student-athletes, administrators) will help spread our values. Determine an action plan for sharing your values with your student-athletes. Attempt to govern your program in agreement with your values.

What’s my vision?

Can you clearly define your vision? The mission statement of your program? Ask ourselves: What are we trying to do for these student-athletes? How will we provide a vehicle for them to get there? Break this vision down into manageable time blocks: 1-month, 1st semester, first year, entire collegiate career and life after college. This helps us solidify the foundation of our leadership values and empowers our student-athletes to begin to establish their own leadership foundation. Empowering student-athletes to begin a life of leadership is very rewarding and powerful.

Jeff House: Jeff is a 25-year veteran basketball coach, analyst, instructor, speaker, and author, who’s most recent book, Mental Toughness Training for Basketball, was released in July 2010. Jeff has coached and won championships at all levels from high school to the professional ranks. During his time coaching at the collegiate level, his recruiting classes consistently ranked in the Top 10 nationally. With extensive coaching contacts throughout the nation – particularly in the southeast and Midwest – he’ll provide weekly insight and commentary on the Big Ten Conference for College Chalktalk. Visit him at All Basketball Review and on Twitter @BBbyJeffHouse.

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Business Strategy, Finance, Start-ups, Venture Capital

Private Equity Finance for Business

Sometimes buying a new business isn’t what you’re looking to do. There’s a lot to go through and even more to figure out. However, you can also buy companies that are in trouble and make them into something better. This may seem difficult, but with enough investors, it can become quite the venture.

Private equity is pretty much when you invest in a company with very little money, or that is going bankrupt. You now own a piece of it and are responsible for it. On the other hand, you also have the potential to make the business sink or swim. This means that you are also responsible for repaying any loans you and the other investors take out for the benefit of the business.

You can take something that was previously failing and make it into a better company than it was before. However, to do this, you need adequate private equity funding. But also keep in mind that this isn’t a one person venture. You need help financially and to have other investors willing to help you along with enough funding to completely renovate and fix the business you are investing in. There are several ways to come across enough money in order to do so. One way is loans. Continue reading →

Leadership

I Am Looking for Leadership

Hello my friends, Do you know what leadership look like? In many companies and organizations throughout the world, leadership is looking more and more like a joke. You have to search through an organization for days at a time or wait for a catastrophic event to take place to find your real leaders. About a week ago in a discussion with a few colleagues over lunch, the topic centered on leadership and when will real leaders be allowed to lead. You may know of a few people in leadership positions that for some reason or another, have lost touch in developing and leading their teams the right way. We are not simply talking about leading a team or department to a very high number for goals but simply just having the attributes that builds trust in those team members that they are responsible for leading.

We have heard and known for some time now all of the buzz words for leadership; having vision, integrity, trust, character, firm, etc… and these attributes are paramount in true leadership. I recall a particular coach would say to his teams before the game, “To go out and play the game the right way.” The players or workers in turn would say the coach; “To lead us in the right way.” People are smarter and more in tuned with what’s going on around them than they get credit for. This statement, “Please don’t piss on my head and tell me that it’s raining” is becoming the buzz word from team members describing the communication style and strategies used by their managers when it comes to delivering information. People are starting to recognize the difference and leaders need to keep this in mind when it comes to communicating and leading others.

Many times the position title of leadership can actually trump the person’s leading ability when it comes to getting their teams developed to achieve their goals. to reach another level. Have you ever came across a person that was in a managerial role and used their title to trump their subordinates ideas, project accomplishments or even belittle them to their colleagues or superiors. Leadership doesn’t look like this! Again what does Leadership look like? Great positive leadership comes in many different forms and we won’t touch all of them in this post however a few things come to mind when looking at leadership. Leadership have vision to see things in front or at a higher level when others are looking behind, on the sides or not looking at all. Leadership stand tall and make the difficult decision that is right for the situation and organization even if this means standing by themselves. Leadership operates with integrity knowing that everyone may not be treated the same however they do their best to treat their team members right and fair. Leadership seeks input from others understanding that not one person has all of the answers. Leadership understands and accepts that not all ideas or decisions will be a success and they take full responsibility and learn from it. Leadership recognizes those persons skilled in the areas of development and execution of strategy in attaining goals and implementing ideas which can lead to creating value for the organization over time.

I applaud those that have earned the mantle of being promoted to a leadership position at your particular workplace and I know that this duty was not easily earned. When you see real leadership at work on any level, do your best to recognize, acknowledge and grow it, because in the absence of real leadership you jeopardize the core of the organization that will lead to mass exodus of talented people onward in search being led by leaders and/or becoming one themselves.

For every promotion of leadership you attained, make sure to continue to sharpen your leadership skills by reading books, masterminding with other leaders and attending leadership seminars and classes. After all of the reading, talking and learning, most importantly, leadership recognizes opportunity, communicate the opportunity and challenge their group to take it on. Leadership get in the heads and hearts of their team members, the ears of the customers and the eyes of the competitors. Why? In order to understand and be able to stand in front to determine, engage and influence the marketplace to follow the leader. This is what I look for in leadership and strive to be on a daily basis.

Be the Leader you are Looking for!

Patrick Jackson is a Motivational speaker and Internet Marketer who thrives on leading others to success with their business and brand. Get more strategies for your online business at http://www.youractiongameplan.com and continue to Make it HAPPEN!

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Contracts & Legal, Innovation, Mobile & Telecom, Software, Training

Mobile Compliance Webinar By TextGuard

TextGuard, the leader in Mobile Compliance, is presenting a free webinar on the changing mobile landscape and it’s effects on compliance, record keeping and electronic discovery. The webinar will benefit professionals in Financial Services, Healthcare, Government, Energy, Legal, Compliance and Audit, and providers of Software, Mobile and Internet-based solutions.

Title: Introduction To Mobile Compliance – Are Your Mobile Phones Compliant?
Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM US EDT

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Are Your Mobile Phones Compliant? – Mobile Compliance Webinar By TextGuard

5 Questions, Contracts & Legal, Finance, Investments, MyOrbit Blogs, Real Estate

Notes for Commercial Real Estate Investments

Commercial real estate is defined as property that is used for the purpose of commerce. For example, an office building, a warehouse, retail store, shopping center or an apartment building with five or more units.

Today in 2010, due to the global recession since 2008, there is a much higher supply of commercial real estate than its demand, and hence the prices are attractive and can be negotiated hard by interested buyers.

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We expect that commercial real estate prices may correct by 10-20% in 2011 depending on the country and city. In general one can’t go wrong with buying commercial real estate (office space, rather than shopping malls) in big cities if the time frame is 5-10 years.

The risk-reward is more in commercial property than in residential property. Commercial real estate returns can give attractive over 5-10 year period; much better than you would get from residential real estate of the same proportion.

Location is very important in commercial real estate. Our experience has been that “it is better in general” to have a small space at a busy city-center/downtown place, than to a big space at a suburb.

London and New York are two cities that will deliver good returns despite recession if you can invest for 5-10 years. Irrespective of where you are in the world, see if you can invest in commercial property in high growth cities like Mumbai, New Delhi, Hong Kong, Shanghai, etc. These cities can deliver 5x returns in 10 years. Continue reading →