Think about the best leader you’ve had. How can you emulate their best qualities?
Think of the best leader that you've ever had that's influenced you the most. What if you could pull from their strengths and apply that to your own life. You could follow their style and do the same for others moving forward.
Think of the best leader that you've ever had that's influenced you the most. And what if you could pull from their strengths and incorporate that and apply it to your own life, to your own style of leadership? And that's what this video is about, is thinking of a leader or leaders that you most admire and pulling from them into your style. It could be someone you know personally, maybe a former supervisor, a coach that you had, your parents, a teacher. It could also be someone famous, possibly someone you follow on social media or even a character in a, in a movie or a TV show.
Like I know for me, Denzel Washington in Remember the Titans. Who that guy's awesome. And I aspire to live up to his leadership style. I got this idea of looking at a leader you admire from this book. It's called the Team Captain's Leadership Manual by Jeff Jansen and it's one of the most popular leadership books for athletes. I helped co facilitate a leadership course when I worked at UC San Diego with Division 1 athletes. We had a course for them each quarter where we would, over the course of the weeks, look at this book, do different exercises designed to help them incorporate leadership principles and help find out who they are and their authentic leadership style.
And this exercise is one of the foundational pieces of that course. When I did it the first time, I thought about celebrities and famous coaches and leaders like Denzel or Nick Saban. And there were non football coaches examples in there too. But what really struck me was my example is I had a youth football coach who was one of the best coaches that I ever had. And he was one of the driving forces behind why I love the sport and continue to play it for over 12 years. But it wasn't about his X's and O's or his football knowledge.
It was his enthusiasm, making practices fun, caring about each of the players that he led. I looked forward to coming to practice and doing weightlifting because of him. His attitude was infectious and it helped me enjoy the process of the sport. And that influenced me not just in sport, but in life overall. And interestingly enough, he was the first person back in fourth grade to give me my nickname, G. Welly. Combining my first name, Garrett, with my last name, Wester Welly. And that's my now username on Cadre.
So shout out to him. And I can think of other people of teachers, supervisors, even co workers and famous leaders I admire. And for those people, I couldn't tell you some of the things that my favorite leaders did years ago, but I do remember their qualities and how they made me feel. And sometimes as a leader, it's not about what you do, but it's impact and influence you have on the people around you. And, and with that, connect to that emotional aspect. Think about the way a leader you admire affected you and shaped you.
And guess what? You could follow their style and do the same for others moving forward.
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