Servant Sport Leadership: A continuing education course

presented through the University of Idaho Center for ETHICS*

Endorsed by Winning With Character and the American Football Coaches Association

 

 

Sport Servant Leadership

 

The Servant Sport Leadership Program has been developed by the Winning With Character Foundation and the University of Idaho Center for ETHICS* to help coaches and teams develop a sense of unity built upon a foundation of character.  The ground work of this program lies in effective leadership approaches modeled by coaches and key players. 

The Sport Servant Leadership Program will help you by:

· Defining Servant Leadership and distinguishing it from the more traditional styles of coaching

· Offering practical examples of Servant Leadership characteristics and describing how they may be applied in competitive football

· Offering insight into the relationship between Servant Leader coaching and athlete motivation and performance

· Explaining how and your staff can participate in the Servant Leadership program with success

 

Course information:

 How to register:

 

Registration: Can be completed online at :   www.conferences.uidaho.edu

Click on “On-line registration” and choose the course “Sport Servant Leadership”.

Cost: $150 per participant

Format/Timeline:  Sport Servant Leadership is a 9-week, distance-learning course that will be completed entirely online.

Continuing Education Credits: 3.0 CEUs (equivalent to 30 contact hours) will be awarded at the completion of the course.

The purpose of this course:

Is to create an environment to aid you in your quest to become a servant leader.  What are the traits, the gifts, and the mission of individuals who are servant leaders?  What makes an individual worthy of being called a servant leader? The answer lies in you!

The objectives of this course are:

1. To provide a rationale for the development  of a servant leadership philosophy as a coach in football.

2. To inspire and challenge thinking that is directed toward servant leadership coaching.

3. To become knowledgeable in literature and language of servant

leadership.

4. To assess one’s personal qualities in the quest for servant leaders.

 

 

Lesson Topics

 Unit 1:

· Leadership

· Styles of leadership and the       servant-leader coach

· Mission

 

Unit 2:

· Love your job, love your team

· Commitment

· Responsibility

· Respect

 

Unit 3:

· Humility

· Empathy and Compassion

· Patience

· Your Mission Revisited

 

Photo courtesy of Bruce Matthews

Photo courtesy of Bruce Matthews

 

Proven Successes:

· University of Georgia Football

·University of Maryland Football

· Georgia Military College

· The Atlanta Braves

· Over 50 high school football programs in the United States

 

Contact Us:

 

Winning With Character Inc.

Bobby Lankford, President
phone: 706- 583-0539
fax: 706-542-7868

Email: bobbylankford@sports.uga.edu

www.winningwithcharacter.org

 

Center for ETHICS*

Sharon Stoll, Ph.D., Director

David Brunner, Curriculum Manager

University of Idaho

Department of HPERD

500 Memorial Gym

Moscow, ID 83843-2401

Phone 208-885-2103

Fax 208-885-2108

Email: sstoll@uidaho.edu or

dbrunner@vandals.uidaho.edu

 

AFCA Presentation Slides

Servant Leadership Presentation

Center for ETHICS Servant Leadership

Center for ETHICS Presentation

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