Our group was given the privilege to interview Anton Goff, the current Director of Athletics for the University of Hartford. Goff was able to provide us with valuable insights on how he advanced through the ranks of athletic administration. He was able to explain how he uses servant and situational leadership styles to positively direct and influence his employees and student-athletes. He states, “I’m all about servant leadership so I want to help young people that want to get into the business and go from there, because I didn’t get to where I am today without help from other people” (Goff, Oct. 23, 2015). In doing so, he has advanced his athletic administration career from working as an academic advisor to ultimately becoming a Division …show more content…
Part of being a successful athletic director is the ability to not only compete with your competitors, but also build upon positive relationships with them. Goff states, “We’re all competitors, but we consider each other colleagues first. It’s been good to go to meetings with these guys, and pick their brains on why we’ve been doing the things a certain way in the conference, and finding out what they’re doing” (Goff). This is clearly an important attribute of being a successful leader. It is essential in leadership positions to not only be able to compete with your competitors, but also to gain their trust and knowledge through mutual respect. At Hartford, Goff has shown his ability in his short time to build upon the relationships of his fellow athletic directors, while successfully applying essential management skills to compete at a high …show more content…
Goff states, “I’m not going to be able to sell popcorn at a game, as well as make sure the locker rooms are clean, as well as sell tickets, as well as market everything. You need good people around you to be able to do that, and you got to be able to identify what good people are.” Although Goff attributes a lot of his culture to servant leadership, it is not the only style that he abides by. Goff also preaches situational leadership, because different situations warrant different actions. Goff states, “As much as I love to be a servant leader and love to get buy-in from people when we’re doing projects or getting ideas, there’s also times where you need to be directive and you need to make decisions on the fly.” Furthermore, Goff likes to be able to remain fluid as a leader when dealing with any aspect of change and always finding the best course of action to deal with it. He states, “Just because we were doing something today didn’t mean we were going to do it tomorrow, and if we changed something tomorrow, if there’s a better way to do it the day after that we’re going to do that too”
Dobson had led his teams to 11 district championships, two state championships and an appearance at the Nike Cross Nationals. But he had never coached a collegiate or post-collegiate runner. “It was a chance for me to try something new and, after talking on the phone, we both felt it was a good fit,” Dobson said. Dobson, also a professing Christian, felt God had orchestrated the opportunity. “Her Christian faith resonated with me and my family,” Dobson said.
Oniya Lloyd University of the Rockies Coach John Wooden: Final Paper Abstract Coaches can sometimes take on different roles. These roles are not always limited to the simple title as a coach. It is the job of the coach to wear many different hats. These are the times where the coach has to really get to know their players. The way these players play with each other will be a sure sign of the type of coach that coached.
Good teams are best friends with their teammates, but the best teams make their teammates family. This team needs to pick one another up when they are down, but also needs to make sure that some players don’t get to high on themselves. Even outside of baseball we must be there for each other. If someone is having a rough time off the field, we should make sure everything is going alright. As a team, we have been playing with one another for most of our lives.
“How in the world did Colin Cushman end up as an athletic director?” you might ask. My stepdad Colin went through rigorous classes at Montana State from 1984 to 1988. He has successfully gotten a degree in math, and a minor in chemistry. Young Colin who once had gracious, full hair, studies chemical engineering for two years. During this time, Colin began coaching high schooler’s, which immediately caught his interest.
When I first signed up for sports communications the last thing I thought I’d be doing was not only meeting people like Mike Breen, Jim O’Connell, Steven Sheer, and Joe Yanarell, but speaking to them on a first hand basis and getting to know about their line of work. Each and every speaker not only told us about their line of work but told us about their stories on how they got to where they are and why try fell in love with what they do along the way. The three speakers that stood out to me the most were Mike Breen, Jim O’Connell, and Steven Sheer, but I would like to quote Joe Yanarell on a couple statements that seem to fit into each and every one of these men’s stories. First off, Mr. Yanarell said “you are going to fail and learn from it.” This quote goes a long way
By displaying idealized influence, Sweeney has been able to gain the respect and admiration of his team members by showing concern for them and displaying a high level of ethical behaviors (CSU, n.d.). Part of his philosophy is that he would rather lose while doing the right things, than win by doing what is wrong (Price, 2014). Individual consideration is used by leaders when they form relationships with their followers based on each one’s personal needs (CSU, n.d.). Coach Swinney shows individual consideration by developing personal relationships with all his players, both on and off the field (Brenner, 2014). He has a genuine interest in all of his players and builds bonds with them.
This team spirit and cooperation has to stay with all of us on the field and off the
Introduction: Within this assignment, we have investigated the St. John Fisher’s Athletics Department. Our project group collectively created interview questions that would allow us to analyze the staffing process for a head coaching position within Fisher Athletics. Following the interviews, we analyzed, the job description, the collection of task statements, importance and frequency ratings, dimensions and the KSAOs. We have decided to keep the names of the interviewees private for the sake of this analysis and therefore we will be referring to our interviewee’s as Coach #1, Coach #2, and the Athletic Director (AD), all of whom are current employees at the college.
Coaches are usually heroes in the eyes of young athletes. In “Psychology of Heroism,” one researcher explained that an attribute of heroes is that they do what they do out of freewill (Cherry, “Psychology of Heroism”). Trevor volunteers a couple places; he offered to work at the Salvation Army and at Denver’s weight room. He supervised their weight room occasionally in the summer. That is a huge part of what keeps their athletics going.
Leadership has many definitions and there are many ways for it to be displayed. In the Washington DC Suburb of Alexandria Virginia The football team of T.C Williams High School displayed great leadership. The ways of leadership displayed from T. C. Williams High School proved epic and life changing for not only the coach, but the players and people of the community. Remember the Titans was based on an integral part of American history because it was based on integrating high schools with a black coach taking over the head coach position and the white coach becoming the assistant. Coach Bill Yoast was the head coach at T.C. Williams and nominated for the Virginia Hall of fame until the integration where one of the Football team’s most significant
A brief description of an employment opportunity for being a high school athletics director (AD) will request the person to possess certain skills. Typically those skills require communication and written skills along with a degree in education. It’s generally understood that the primary function of the AD is provide the leadership and management of the entire school’s athletic programs. The responsibilities of being an AD are in addition to teaching duties, thus the requirement for a teacher certification. While words cannot describe what the job really entails I choose to interview a local athletic director from Cross Creek High School, a Georgia Division 2-AAAAA school, Dr. Lisa White.
A coach’s biggest job is to teach kids to play team sports. As a Head coach you never ever want to lose the trust and faith of your players. If the players don’t believe you will lead them to victory then they won’t want to play for you. Another huge responsibility as a head coach is teaching your players to do
Nonetheless, the intangibles that coaching provides are many times far more valuable than we originally believed. The relationships we formed and sometimes still have are proof there’s more to coaching than wins and losses. Besides the day I married my wife and the birth of my two children, the greatest memories of my life have come from running and coaching. While winning championships and having the opportunity to work with national caliber athletes like Gavin Coombs and Tradelle Ward was something I 'll never forget. Nevertheless, even more meaningful over the years was watching young athletes set goals, work hard, and achieve success - sometimes for the first time in their lives.
It means that you set clear boundaries for how you expect the dog to behave and you are consistent with your expectations. It means you understand how to communicate clearly with your dog and you take the time to teach your dog how to behave. It also means that in prickly situations, you practice good management skills to avoid putting your dog in to a situation where he feels uneasy. It means that you teach your dog to default to you for guidance when he is unsure of what to do. Ultimately, effective leadership should make the dog 's life more predictable because he knows what is expected and he can count on his owner to handle uncomfortable
It important to have commendable weight room strength, but a will to win and overcome the opponent was even more crucial. Both of my coaches for the sports made a positive, memorable impact on my life. Mr. Allen and Mr. Zajac both taught me life lessons and helped me grow up. They shaped me into who I am today and showed me what it takes to be committed. The responsibility level these coaches put on my was higher than I ever saw in any other sport.