260- Lead Em Up

I signed our team up for lead em up this year, that’s a program run by Adam Bradley designed to help build great followership and leadership in an athletic program. The program starts by defining what ‘green’ is. Green is the money team. Green is good, relaxed, flowing. Ultimately , we want to be green, build green. The first thing we do is sit down as a group and define what our green standards are and will be. We talk about what green looks and sounds like. Then when we decide, i send those in to lead em up, and they send us back a poster with those standards and our team logo and name on them. In addition to being time well spent (like we talked about the last few days), it was a really great way to hear our team hash out what they want this year. They want to feel close and connected and together. And that’s all I need. By defining our ‘green’, I can now simply yell out, or pull aside a kid and ask them ‘are you green right now?’ and they’ll know what im talking about. My challenge for you - does your team know what it wants? Does it know what ‘green’ looks and sounds and feels like? Are they willing to chase that? To hold each other accountable to that?