12 Leadership Fundamentals - Smile Now Coach

“The Way We Do Things Here”

A dozen leadership ideas to build your team culture on:

Leave the world a little bit better than how you found it.
Vision – our biggest athletic goal has everything to do with the path of mastery, and nothing to do with the markers along that path like wins, losses, and other statistics. Wins are a by-product of success, which is the peace of mind that comes from knowing you gave your best effort (John Wooden). It is a privilege to get to pursue mastery in a sport that you find fun.
Vision - it takes excellence, enthusiasm, forgiveness, and teamwork to approach our potential and maximize our chances at some fun path markers.
Lead by example. Bench the ego and give your best effort now. No whining. No complaining. No excuses.
Connect with empathy: don’t get mad, get curious!
It takes courage – the strength of will to do what’s difficult – to get rid of both complacency and a person’s safety net. It takes courage to give your best effort right now. It takes courage to understand that your best effort is always good enough.
Good values attract good people and good people make you better.
Little things make the big things happen.
Greatness and success are attainable by all. People are inherently good and full of potential. Also, everyone has a story.
The carrot is mightier than the stick and half full is greater than half empty.
Adversity is good for you as long as you literally survive. Patience and Faith hold it all together.
Strive for perfection, but never expect it.

Notes on each fundamental:

1. Every good deed, small or large, has great value, often much more so than we realize.

2. Excellence: do common things in uncommon ways. Enthusiasm: we won the lottery when we were born. We get to play softball. Forgiveness: remembering that nobody's perfect gives us emotional freedom. Teamwork: I cannot be all I can be without your help.

3. I cannot change the past. I cannot control the future. All I can do is maximize my chances for great outcomes by giving my best effort now.

4. It is so much easier to get mad and so much more useful to get curious.

5. In other words, control the controllables to earn peace of mind.

6. Teamwork again - I need good people around me because they help me be the best version of myself.

7. Is an inch little if it's the difference between safe and out? Momentum gained or momentum lost? Good habit built or bad habit built? Really, there is no such thing as a "little" thing.

8. Luck is real and life is not fair, but we don't need luck or fairness to be successful.

9. How we talk to ourselves matters...a lot. Be relentlessly positive.

10. I acknowledge the bad in bad stuff, but I don't indulge in sustained negative thinking. Instead, I practice finding the silver lining around dark clouds and focus on that. Often, this is what I can learn from the adverse situation.

11. John Wooden: "Most of us are impatient. As we get older, we think we know more and things should happen faster. But patience is a virtue in preparing for any task of significance. It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it." "We must have faith that things will work out as they should. Please keep in mind that I'm not saying things will necessarily work out as we want them to."

12: John Wooden: "The players are charged with trying to improve a little each day, trying to get closer to becoming their best." Expecting 110%, or even 100% is foolish. Humans make mistakes. We push for 100% without getting down on ourselves when we inevitably fall short. By shooting for the stars, we are still among the heavens when we miss.

Details: Category: Leadership Leadership; Published: 20 July 2016 20 July 2016