Team Leadership

Your team’s leadership is your responsibility.

If you are struggling through a bad year and one of the reasons is your team lacks the right kind of leadership, that is on you. Not every great team has natural leaders, who speak up, take control and are capable of lifting everyone else around them. You have to provide the leadership you want from your team.

Leadership is a skill. While I do believe certain people have natural leadership instincts, leadership can be taught and developed. If leadership is important to your team, then you have to teach and develop it. Wherever your team lacks leadership, you have to fill the void. Figure out what your team needs, and if you can’t teach them how to do it, you provide it.

Certain teams require a more hands on approach from the head coach. It doesn’t mean they can’t be great teams. It’s just a matter of you figuring out what your team lacks and finding a way to give it to them.

Don’t let a lack of leadership be the reason why your team has a bad year. To me, that’s an excuse for many head coaches, when really it should be a void that they fill. If your team needs better leadership, provide it for them.