Unit 2 - Identifying Our Leadership and Coaching Style

- We will research different leadership and coaching styles
- I will communicate and describe my own leadership and coaching style

Topics

- Autocratic/Participative (democratic)/Delegative (Laissez-Faire) Leadership

- Leadership style quiz [http://psychology.about.com/library/quiz/bl-leadershipquiz.htm]

- Transformational Leadership style

- Transactional Leadership

- Situational Leadership

- Hershey and Blanchard's Leadership Styles

- Blanchard's SLII Leadership Styles

Checking For Understanding

1 - Short Answer Test - which leadership style would you use for each situation and why

2 - Tweet - The leadership style that most represents you and why

http://management.about.com/od/leadership/fl/10-Indispensable-Leadership-Models.htm?utm_term=6%20leadership%20styles&utm_content=p1-main-6-title&utm_medium=sem&utm_source=msn&utm_campaign=adid-d18d993d-6cbf-4b8f-8666-94454c1f0ff5-0-ab_msb_ocode-4572&ad=semD&an=msn_s&am=broad&q=6%20leadership%20styles&dqi=&o=4572&l=sem&qsrc=999&askid=d18d993d-6cbf-4b8f-8666-94454c1f0ff5-0-ab_msb

http://psychology.about.com/od/leadership/a/leadstyles.htm?utm_term=6%20leadership%20styles&utm_content=p1-main-4-title&utm_medium=sem&utm_source=msn&utm_campaign=adid-d18d993d-6cbf-4b8f-8666-94454c1f0ff5-0-ab_msb_ocode-4572&ad=semD&an=msn_s&am=broad&q=6%20leadership%20styles&dqi=&o=4572&l=sem&qsrc=999&askid=d18d993d-6cbf-4b8f-8666-94454c1f0ff5-0-ab_msb

Unit 1 - Defining Leadership and Coaching

Topics

- The importance of leadership and growing as a leader
- The role of leadership in coaching
- The role of leadership on a team
- Effective vs Ineffective leadership
- Understanding the difference between leadership and management (how to be a 'leader' coach, not just a coach)
- How to grow as a leader
- What do leaders do
- Example of leaders and what makes them leaders
- Journey of a leader
- Whats the difference between playing with a grate player and a great leader
- How do you gain enough influence so that people will follow you

Checking For Understanding

1) Essay
- Define leadership
- Discuss the importance of leadership
- Discuss the importance of growing as a leader to being an effective coach
- How to grow as a leader

2)  A 'tweet' defining leadership.

Student Expectations (SEs)

Unit 1 - Defining Coaching and Leadership
- We will research definitions of leadership and coaching we will be able to define leadership and coaching.
- I will communicate and describe, written and verbally, my own definition of leadership and coaching.

Unit 2 - Identifying Our Leadership and Coaching Style
- We will research different leadership and coaching styles
-  I will communicate and describe my own leadership and coaching style

Unit 3 - Creating a Vision
- We will research and explore the importance of creating a vision for your life, your team, and the people that you lead.
- I will create a vision for myself for the rest of the school year and for the rest of my high school career.  I will create a vision for the type of team that I want to coach and for the type of program that I want to run

Unit 4 - Building Relationships
- We will research the importance of building relationships in fulfilling your vision and in getting the most out of the people you coach and work with.
-  I will communicate how I plan to build relationships with all of my stakeholders to create the best opportunity to see my vision grow into fruition.

Unit 5 - Establishing Your Culture
- We will research the importance of establishing the right culture, what that culture looks like, sounds like, and feels like, and how to establish and maintain that culture.
- I will communicate what my ideal culture will be and I will create the rules and expectations needed to maintain that culture, and I will create consequences and plans of action for redirecting behavior when my expectations aren't being met.

Unit 6 - Teaching Fundamentals
- We will research and discuss the importance of teaching basic fundamentals of your organization/sport in growing and developing your players/people.
- I will identify the basic fundamentals of my sport and I will be able to teach it to my class.

Unit 7 - Your Philosophy of Coaching and Leadership
- We will define leadership and coaching philosophy and we will research the leadership and coaching philosophies of other coaches.
- I will be able to communicate clearly and fully my philosophies on leadership and coaching.

Unit 8 - Getting the Job
- We will learn what it takes to get an interview and to have success in your interview.
-  I will setup and interview with a coach on my campus and go through the interview process.

Unit 9 - Leadership Skills
- We will research different leadership skills.
- I will identify which leadership skills are most important to me and identify which skills are strengths and weaknesses for me.

The Importance of Leadership Through Coaching

This Course Will Provide a Few Things:

1)  Exposure for coaching career paths

2)  Development of individual coaching and leadership philosophies and coaching and leadership styles

3)  Instruction on how to use your individual style and personality and best practices from coaches and leaders around the world to best lead your own program

4) Improve individual effectiveness by growing them as leaders

I want this course to provide a forum for students to learn about the coaching field, for students to learn how to use their individual personality, skills, and experiences to be leaders of sports teams, and to help students increase their effectiveness by growing as leaders.

More after the jump ...

Course Overview

This course is designed to use coaching as a case study to teach leadership and grow leaders.  This course will have two focuses: helping students who want to pursue coaching after high school start to develop their own coaching philosophies and coaching styles while also helping students develop their own leadership philosophy and styles.

We will discover the importance of leadership in coaching and we will research and study leadership and coaching philosophies and styles.  

I will be able to define who I am as a leader and a coach and I will be able my leadership and coaching philosophy and style.