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Structured programs and mentorship
- Developing leadership in sports involves structured programs and mentorship to cultivate essential skills. These initiatives focus on enhancing communication, decision-making, and emotional intelligence among athletes.
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Feb 16, 2022 · Leadership has been shown to be a fundamental factor influencing the performance of sport teams. Within these teams, leadership can be provided by coaches, formal athlete leaders, such as team captains, and other ‘informal’ athlete leaders.
Jan 1, 2021 · A relatively recent development in the leadership development literature relating to sport is the application of mentorship (Mead & Gilson, 20 17). In this approach, the more experienced...
Jul 10, 2018 · Research from Ernst & Young has focused on how women build leadership skills through sports. Ninety-four percent of women in the C-suite played sports; 52 percent of women in the C-suite played at the university level; and 77 percent of C-suite women think women who played sports make good employees, according to one report from EY and espnW.
The theoretical developments of leadership, and the latest developments in particular (i.e., emotional intelligence and servant leadership), hold great promise for application in the sports domain. Keywords
- W. James Weese, P. Chelladurai
- 2017
Oct 2, 2024 · Through a multiple case study approach, they identify five practices enabling sports organizations to better develop female leaders: gender policy engagement, setting gender quotas, gender-specific leadership development, gender reporting, and formal and informal development.
This research explores elite athletes’ perspectives of leadership competencies developed through sport and aims to gain greater understanding of how these competencies can be intentionally incorporated in long-term athlete development models.
