At the time of this post, the annual volume spreadsheets are done and have been emailed to the incoming people. Right after this posting, emailing all the returnees will begin. So by evening's end all should have their schedules. Read through all four tabs in the spreadsheet. Note: the weekly dates listed in the spreadsheet are the Sunday that begins each week. Mileage is tabulated from Sunday-Saturday. Each Sunday night or early in the week you are reporting on the blog your mileage from the previous week. Ask questions as needed. Make sure you understand the plan!
All reporting of weekly mileage should now be to the comment section of the blog.
continued return to running schedule:
mon - stretching & mobility + light aerobic running
tue - stretching & mobility + light aerobic running
wed - stretching & mobility + light aerobic running
thu - stretching & mobility + light aerobic running
fri - stretching & mobility + light aerobic running
sat - stretching & mobility + OFF or crosstraining
sun - stretching & mobility + light aerobic running
From the Janssen Sports Leadership
Center…
4 THINGS YOUR LEADERS MUST DO TO
CREATE A CHAMPIONSHIP CULTURE
As a coach, you likely already
realize that your team’s culture is absolutely essential to your program’s
success both on and off the playing field. While your leadership is certainly
critical to building and sustaining the kind of winning culture you need to be
successful, your team leaders play a HUGE role in molding, managing,
monitoring, and maintaining your team’s culture. Because your leaders often
have the most contact and credibility with their teammates, their strong,
continual influence shapes your team’s culture in a multitude of ways. YOUR TEAM LEADERS MUST DO THESE 4
CRITICAL THINGS TO HELP YOU BUILD A CHAMPIONSHIP CULTURE:
1. TEAM LEADERS MUST HELP CREATE THE
CULTURE
Your team leaders play an
important initial role in helping you create the kind of winning,
high-performance culture you need to be successful. Culture cannot simply be created and mandated by one person but
must be co-created in a collaborative effort between the coaches, leaders, and
team.
Together you must co-create
your culture by first envisioning the goals and
standards you would like your team to achieve. You must collectively decide how
your are going to treat each other, what you are going to expect from each
other in terms of commitment, what kinds of attitudes and actions are
appropriate, and how committed you are to each other and winning. Your leaders
are critical not only in helping you co-create the kind of culture you need to
be successful - but they are also important in selling this culture to the rest
of your team.
“The most successful cultures are shaped
by the leader’s own vision of how things should be done and influenced by her
actions and behaviors; it’s the tone from the top.”
Marty Parker, Author of Culture Connection
2. TEAM LEADERS MUST CHAMPION THE
CULTURE
Once your team leaders help you
create a winning culture, they must then Champion or drive the necessary
culture throughout the rest of the program. As the primary Champions of the
culture, your leaders must eat, sleep, and breathe your culture and be the best
examples of it. Your leaders must lead the charge as they first embody the
culture in every way imaginable and then encourage everyone else to live up to
it too. Not only must your leaders live the culture at the highest levels
themselves, but they also need to continually inspire, challenge, and support
their teammates to do the same.
Because of their passion for
your program’s cause, your leaders create a palpable sense of energy,
excitement, enthusiasm, and urgency toward
achieving your program’s Vision. Their teammates can sense your leaders are
there to do and accomplish something special – rather than just being there for
something to do. In short, effective leaders drive behavior by both their words
and deeds. They determine which attitudes and actions are necessary to move
your program toward the goal, then model the way themselves while inspiring and
motivating others as well. They continually look to move the needle in a
positive direction.
As former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner said, “If the CEO isn’t living
and preaching the culture and isn’t doing it consistently, then it just doesn’t
happen.” The same principle applies for
leaders and coaches.
“A leader doesn’t just get the message across - a leader is the
message.”
Warren Bennis, Leadership Author
#3 and #4 to come next week...
