Mr. Krueger...

1. Mr. Krueger said "Leadership is about what you do."

What are you doing to be a leader?

To be a leader I work on improving my character everyday so that others can follow me when they need to. I try hard to satify my team with hard work and perserverance. I am trying to be more vocal and create emotional relationships with my team.

2. Mr. Krueger and you made a list of qualities of a team leader. Pick your strength and explain why. Then pick your weakness and give three conrete ways how you are going to get better.
Strength: Perseverance.
What ever drill comes at me, I may not be the best but I work hard and a get through it. I perservere by attending every practice and every game. I perservere through getting yelled at for the team and communicating the messege. I perservere through rough times on the team and i perservere to win every game.

Weakness: Communication
1. talk to people on a more personal level.
2. be there for my team
3. be more vocal

Initiative and Perseverance...

Using your new knowledge of perseverance, what types of questions could you ask them to find out more and what types of advice could you give them to get them through this time and persevere?
On my competitive soccer team I do have a girl like this. Her name is Jordan Drake she is a phenomial soccer player, but lacks the perserverance to do anything. During season I should of told her that if she quit now she will have a life filled with giving up and that life isn't always fun. I should of let her know if she thinks that she no longer needs to work she starts losing groud. After this talk I would help her create a vision mentally and then stick with her to perform it phyically.

Initiative and Perseverance...

Give at least one concrete example of something you are showing a lack of initiation with and at least 3 concrete steps you are going to take in order to do that.

An example that I am lacking initiative in is AP American Government. In that class I fill like an idiot and most of the time I fail to participate.
1. Stop falling alseep in class.
2. Start answering questions in class.
3. Start reading out of the book so that I can pass the AP test.

Trust and Honesty

1. Define Trust

Trust is the reassurance that you can supply a person with any information or any job and know that a word will not be said and that the job will get done.

2. Define Honesty

Honesty is purity. It is the trueness of someone’s core.

3. What do trust and honesty have to do with each other? Do they go hand in hand?

Trust and honesty do go hand in hand all though they do have their differences. Trust is the information or job you’re giving someone and honesty is the information they are giving back. Like a circuit, leadership cannot be complete without the full circle of trust and honesty.

4. How do they both relate to leadership and what is their importance to leadership?

Trust and honesty have to do with getting people to follow you because you could be the best leader out there, but no one will follow you if they do not trust you. Being unhonest is the quickest way in the world to lose your followers. If you can’t be honest to them can you be honest to yourself?

Courage

Explain the following quote as it pertains to sacrifice and leadership: "the heart of good leadership is sacrifice."

To be a true leader you must have sacrifice. If a leader has a heart that is full of the ability to sacrifice he will make a great leader.

In what ways do you display courage to those whom you influence?

I display courage to those whom I influence by voicing our team’s opinion to our coach. On my club team we have an Isralian coach and he can be pretty intimidating. You will not see a lot of girls tell him what they think. As captain I have the responsibility to have the courage to pass information from the players to the coach. I stand up for our team, but I remain respectful.

What does courage have to do with leadership?

Courage is one of the prime characteristics of leadership. It is like a cake mix. You need all the ingredients of a cake to make it flawless. Courage is like the sugar it is a main ingredient to make the rest of it work.

Listening and Communication Post 3

Hopefully this week you have paid attention to your focus when you communicate. Is your focus on you, your material, or the people you are speaking with? If it is not on the people what types of concrete things can you do or need to change to get better at this?

When i play sports i focus on myself. Not because i am self obsessed or think it's all about me because it's not. I focus on myself because i can push myself, i find it very difficult to push others. I need to be a better communicator and motivator.

Ex: When running sprints after practice the other day, i find it very easy to push myself to be one of the first ones done, but i find it difficult to push others to be there with me.

I need to stop focusing so much on myself. Slow down during sprints and motivate others to hussel instead of being first.

Listening and Communication Post 2

Can you inspire and motivate people? Do you express your vision in such a way that your people are able to understand, internalize, and implement it? When you talk to people one-on-one are you able to connect with them?

I am not very good at inspiring people to do better, but i can motivate people. i motivate by example, and hate to say it, but by cheering. In practice i try to constantly cheer my team on to do their best. I do not express my vision well because i am unaware how to. Even before i express my vision to my team i must first come up with goals and places to go. When i talk to people one-on-one i am able to connect with them, even though it's not like the typical girl would.

Ex: In practice yesterday i motivated Becca to try harder because she was frustrating people by obviously not doing her best. Becca has the type of personality that is tore down easily by the other girls, she is very self conscious. So instead of yelling at her like i would some of the other girls i just motivated her to do her best. The results were very good. :)

I need to be able to create and execute visions to improve my team. I need to keep up on the one-on-one conversations because knowing the different personalities on the team has proved to be an advantage when working with them.

Listening and Communication Post 1

Are you a good listener? Why or why not? What types of things make you a good or bad listener? What types of concrete things can you start doing today to make you a better listener?

Yes, i am a good listener because i do not like expressing my emotions or opening up to people so i let them open up to me. Lack of time makes me a bad listener. To fix this i can attempt to free my schedule. With being a student athlete i do not have alot of time on my hands, therefore i need to manage my time so that i can practice, do homework and still have time left over to listen to others.

Ex: Last tuesday i was talking to Charlori and we really needed to talk, but i rushed our conversation because i was running late to soccer practice. This constantly happens after school and im at soccer for a couple of hours six days a week, then i come home to do homework for a couple more hours this leaves very little free time.

So instead of having serious talks after school i should try to have them before school or at lunch. This way we would not be interupted.