Leadership in Sports

The impact of Leader behaviours on an athlete

Impact of the Athletes Psychology on their behaviours Time spent doing extra training Effort invested in training Performance during competition Sacrifices made for sport

“the process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal”

Is hard to define as a result of it possibly being as a result of it being influence or because of the power Fails to define good leaders and bad leaders Is based on the theory that suits someones argument

A good listener Good execution of ideas Good leadership

Authoritative good ideas but poor execution Leadership is bad

Come from the group itself as a result of skill/ability Could be nominated from the team All the Athletes will have worked with them

Appointed by governing bodies such as coaches

Is authoritative focused on results Doesn’t look at external advice or what the athletes need Is good at making quick decisions

Want to hear from the athletes based on the decision Activity encourages group involvement Adopts a more informal/relaxed approach The leader does make the final decision athletes do get to put input in Takes a while to make decisions Athletes can work on their own when away from the coach

The leader stands aside & allows the group to make their decision Group members get on with a given thing May help out mebers but not offer directions Group members tends to be aggressive towards each other when things went wrong and give up easy

Athletes are born as successful leader

Leaders are made and taught

Considers other factors that could affect the effectiveness of leadership mainly the interaction between people

Focused on developing relationships with the people in the group Work hard to maintain communication with members Helps maintain levels of social interaction between members and themselves Develop respect

Creates the plans Decides on priorities of the athletes Assign members to the task A forward or the back Ensures the mebers stay on tasks Tends be more effective with less experienced athletes

Suggests people learn to be good leaders by observing behaviours of other good leaders in a variety of situations. reproducing those behaviours in similar situations and then continuing them should they be reinforced.

Despite appeal of situational theories and other interactional approaches to the study of leadership, when sport specific research emerged, the results provided minimal support to theories derived from outside sport contexts (Horn, 2002). Some theorists suggested main problem with attempting to transpose general theories of leadership to sports settings is the failure to consider the unique characteristics of sports teams (Chelladurai & Carron, 1978; Terry & Howe, 1984).

People can change from a relationship-oriented style to a task oriented style and vice versa, depending on the situation

Conceptual framework allowing leadership effectiveness be studied in sports domain. Effective leadership is dynamic & based on complex series of interactions between leader, group members and situation Behaviour doe not occur in a vacuum and happens in different scenarious

What a leader does in a situation based on experience

Behaviour that followers would like to see in the leader

Behaviour required by a situation or taste

Opposition strengths Task difficulty Group size Nature of Activity Available time