Do You Inspire or Conspire?

September 27th, 2011

Todd

Inspire, rather than Conspire

Leaders inspire their followers.

You learn a lot about yourself, and other people when you play the role of coach.

That was something that I found a couple years ago when I was asked to coach our daughter’s soccer teams.

I knew what I wanted to do – What drills I wanted to run, the skills that I wanted to teach, and the game strategy that I wanted to teach.

Directing fifteen 12 year old girls is much like herding cats; difficult at best.

Turns out, each one of the girls had their own personality. This wasn’t mentioned in the brochure!

I figured somethings out pretty quick. Having fun is always first and foremost. If you don’t enjoy what you’re doing, you won’t like it. In this case, they won’t like it.

Next I learned was that there are essentially two types of people. There are those that inspire. And there are those that conspire.

Inspirations

On our team there were approximately 75% of the girls that either had the skills to play the game well, or just had the heart to get out there and play.

Hard work and leadership marked their presence on the team. They were as much help inspiring their team mates as myself and assistant coach were.