Team Captains & Team Leadership: The Dynamics and Challenges of Leading Others in Organizations and Teams

by Dr. Philip Willenbrock

Overview

The Team Captain CLASS curriculum is a resource for teaching leadership and/ or facilitating the leadership growth of individuals or groups. The curriculum includes a collection of leadership lessons divided into three modules. Lessons in module 1 focus on what every leader needs to know including leadership definitions, traits and characteristics of leaders, and what leadership is all about. Module 2 lessons focus on leading others and the dynamics of team and organizational leadership. Module 3 lessons focus on character, decision making, goal setting and leading through change and crisis.

Each module contains lessons and more than 100 suggested activities for a variety of uses including; (a) as a team leader development guide, (b) a complete leadership class curriculum, (c) a leadership training guide for managers, or (d) change management within a team or organization.

The lessons were initially developed for use by coaches and managers to train captains and team leaders, in essence, to teach them how to lead. The curriculum has also been used as a curriculum guide for a high school leadership classes and as a training manual for restaurant servers and management trainees.

The curriculum is designed as a tool for teaching leadership principles in a variety of setting including student leaders and athletes in the high school/ college setting. Successful team/ organizational leadership systems require shared styles of leadership creating the need for thorough and complete leadership instruction lesson plans easy for a coach or administrator to use.

The curriculum is a structured, pragmatic, user friendly guide purposefully organized to teach people how to lead with minor facilitation by a teacher, manager or coach. The curriculum approaches leadership from general self-leadership principles of character and traits of effective leaders to aspects of team/organizational leadership dynamics, goal setting and decision making.

Each lesson includes brief but clear topical information for the facilitator and provides activity and lesson plan options to incorporate as desired. The curriculum is designed to be easily adapted and modified to address timely leadership issues and specific needs.

Complete hardcopy individual and facilitator workbooks and additional resources can be found at: sharedteamleadership.com

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148215479
Publisher:	Dr. Philip J Willenbrock
Publication date:	02/21/2014
Series:	C.L.A.S.S. Modules , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	246 KB

About the Author

Dr. Willenbrock is currently an athletic administrator in Washington with twenty years of football coaching experience; eighteen at the college level. He started his career at San Francisco State (DII), and after a stint at The University of South Dakota (DII), he returned to Pennsylvania assisting at Allegheny College (DIII). In 2002 he accepted the head job at The University of Puget Sound (WA) and went to work transforming the culture of the Football Team. He led them to their most productive 5 consecutive seasons in 20 years from 2004-2008.
Through the trials and challenges involved with a turnaround process, he began an intense interest and study in the dynamics of team leadership and earned a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from Seattle University in 2009. The topic of his dissertation; Shared Leadership as a System of Team Captaincy in College Football, provides insight on an alternative to the traditional "team captain" model used almost exclusively in team sport. After going 1-17 his first two seasons at Puget Sound, it became apparent that one critical aspect of team culture/ performance had not yet been addressed: peer leadership (the influence of teammates on each other).
Using a Shared Peer Leadership approach, a transformative culture was established. The Leadership teaching strategies and lessons used through the culture change established a platform for the C.L.A.S.S. Leadership Development Curriculum. A shared leadership system creates culture change that increases member citizenship behavior, buy-in, enthusiasm, mutual respect, communication, service and eliminates group/ individual Harassment, Intimidation and Bullying behavior. Team Captains often elevate to leadership status based Personality, Position, Power and Performance; factors unrelated to leadership ability. A pro-active, purposeful commitment to develop individual Self-Leadership enables Coaches to effectively execute a system of leadership development that will pay dividends in the short term and lasting lessons into the future. The C.L.A.S.S. Leadership Development Curriculum has proven adaptable as the basis of a high school freshman leadership class. As schools and athletic coaches search for an effective leadership curriculum, Dr. Willenbrock has developed standards, assessments and lesson plans that address many of the key concepts included in the complete three Module Leadership Development Curriculum.