...The Tale of Coach Knight It is difficult to identify the leadership style of coach Bobby Knight among all the tirades and temper tantrums, nevertheless one will try; indeed this author remembers where she was the very day that Coach Knight hurled the notorious chair in response to his anger (Puma, 2007). As the bell rang for 2nd hour P.E. class, the conversation of the day surrounded the actions of Coach Knight and the inactions of Indiana University to discipline him. Coach Knight appears to lead by position power with his aggressive, controlling behavior; of the big five personality traits identified in Trait theory, he appears to be high on neuroticism due to his open hostilities (Northouse, 2010). He manages more than he leads as he micro-manages every area of his player’s lives both on and off the field (Puma, 2007). He also appears to be high on extraversion, although he does not appear to be either sociable or have a positive energy, he is very high on assertiveness (Northouse, 2010). He seems to be high on openness as he is highly informed about his players and his game, and high on conscientiousness due to his decisiveness and his infatuation with being in control (Northouse, 2010). The article painted a picture of an agreeable Knight from the University perspective because the University believed that he was loyal and cared deeply about his players but all other evidence points to low on the agreeable scale (Northouse, 2010; Puma, 2007). It was the position...
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...The unique aspect when it comes to Duke’s men basketball Coach Mike Krzyzewski is that not only is the man a superior basketball genius on the hardwood, but also a special man off the court that’s truly an inspirational coaching leader in every way. The man fills his players year after year with a multitude of knowledge about the sport he loves, and also the importance of playing like a team. However, Coach K is not just worried about how his Duke Blue Devils play on the court; he cares more about being that role model his players can look up to. The man is a leadership guru and exemplifies every part of the Coaching leadership style that we selected. Coach K’s leadership behavior and traits goes hand and hand with the qualities of a great coach. He is the textbook example of a special type of coach and leader. He listens closely to his players and treats them with the utmost respect. His players view him as a second Dad and give it their all for him by always competing on the court. Ex Duke player Jason Williams said this about his former coach, “It’s a dream to play for a guy like that — a guy who’s just a rock, who believes in you every second you’re on the court. I love Coach K. I’d run through a brick wall for him” (1). To continue, Coach K knew how to push all the right buttons and lead by example which is exactly why he is a superb coach. He has a strong desire to use the game of basketball to mold his players into men, and to not just focus on winning. His principles...
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...Coach K Final Exam May 1, 2012 Coach Mike Krzyzewski was a phenomenal coach and leader. He had the most career wins in NCAA Division I history. His is a prime example of exceptional leadership. Throughout the book Leading with the Heart I have seen prime examples of the following leadership theories: transformational leadership, trait theory, behavioral theory, and power and influence theory. Coach Mike Krzyzewski is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. He played point guard for the Cadet team. He retired from active duty in 1974 and started his coaching career. Coach K took over Duke during the 1980-81 season. He lead the Blue Devils to the NIT quarterfinals in his first year. Under his leadership the Blue Devils won their first national championship in 1991. They also won in 1992. He also led the team to another national title in 2001 and then again in 2010. Coach K is the definition of a leader. He has everything it takes to be a successful leader and he has proven that time and time again. He is more than just a leader and leading people to win games. He wants his team to get the best experiences possible. He believes in treating people fairly and what you put in to it you get out. Transformational leadership is the leadership style Coach K participated in. Transformational leadership is where the leader constantly inspires their team with shared ideas of the future. The leader’s enthusiasm is usually passed on to the team, but it is important...
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...New York State Voter Registration Form Register to vote Send or deliver this form With this form, you register to vote in elections in New York State. You can also use this form to: • change the name or address on your voter registration • become a member of a political party • change your party membership Verifying your identity Fill out the form below and send it to your county’s address on the back of this form, or take this form to the office of your County Board of Elections. We’ll try to check your identity before Election Day, through the DMV number (driver’s license number or non-driver ID number), or the last four digits of your social security number, which you’ll fill in below. Mail or deliver this form at least 25 days before the election you want to vote in. Your county will notify you that you are registered to vote. To register you must: Questions? • be a US citizen; • be 18 years old by the end of this year; • not be in prison or on parole for a felony conviction; • not claim the right to vote elsewhere. If you do not have a DMV or social security number, you may use a valid photo ID, a current utility bill, bank statement, paycheck, government check or some other government document that shows your name and address. You may include a copy of one of those types of ID with this form— be sure to tape the sides of the form closed. Call your County Board of Elections listed on the back of this form or ...
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...Coach K. and Coach Knight Leadership Styles “The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” — Vince Lombardi. This is one of many quotes from Coaching is I feel at times, because some things are left until the last minute, we just breeze by to get the job done, without any closure or follow-up to talk about what went right, what went wrong and what could be improved. Conger’s steps for effective persuasion In Conger’s article, he states four essential steps for effective persuasion: 1.) Establish credibility 2.) Frame for common ground 3.) Provide evidence and 4.) Connect emotionally With establishing credibility, Conger states, “If expertise and relationships determine credibility, it is crucial that you undertake an honest assessment of where you stand on both criteria before beginning to persuade” (Conger, 1998). In framing for common ground, Conger states, “Effective persuaders know it is impossible to engage people and gain commitment to ideas or plans without highlighting the advantages to all the parties involved” (Conger, 1998). In providing evidence, Conger states, “Effective persuaders supplement numerical data with examples, stories, metaphors, and analogies to make their positions come alive, which paints a vivid picture and in doing so, lends a completing and tangible quality to the persuader’s point of view” (Conger, 1998). And finally in connecting emotionally, Conger...
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...orange rim. After winning his fifth national title Coach Mike Krzyzewski, known as Coach K, was cutting down the white woven net. As Duke University head coach Coach K runs to congratulate his players as tears run down his face. Pride built up inside him bursted out! He is definitely an unforgettable legend in basketball history. Coach K has the most wins out of any coach. Duke University is honored to have such an inspirational coach for men’s basketball. Mike Krzyzewski was born in Chicago, Illinois. Although, his last name is difficult to say no one forgets the name. One time, there was a contest between the Duke basketball players to see who could spell the name Krzyzewski. Marshall Plumlee was the winner of the contest flying by with the correct spelling. Coach K was raised with a Polish background while his mother was a cleaning lady and his father was an elevator operator. Mike always had an interest in sports, but one sport just seemed to click. The sport of basketball then...
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...their submission of ideas and methods and that is exactly where the distinction between management and leadership falls. This author will focus accurately on this distinction illustrating Blanchard’s situational model and Fiedler’s contingency model on the two famous coaches’ leadership style. Furthermore, this writer will discuss which of the leadership styles utilized from them are more effective and what is impacting on their effectiveness. Based on Fiedler’s contingency model it is apparent that Coach Knight and Coach K are matched to their situations. As the Fiedler’s contingency model suggests leaders are assigned to a situation for their specified qualities and abilities and is more like a leader-match structure (Northouse, 2013). It is very well illustrated that Coach Knight is more of a task-oriented leader which is highlighted by his main attention to achieve his goals or making the team to win a possible and definite goal to attain. According to the contingency model Coach Knight scored low in the least-preferred co-worker (LPC), on the leader-member relations while he scored high LPC scores on the task structure. In addition,...
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...Coach Mike Krzyzewski (Coach K.) and Coach Robert Knight (Coach Knight) were two of the most winning and successful coaches to ever coach basketball. These men are not just known for their record wins, but for their unique leadership. They each had a unique way of leading their teams. Coach Knight was Indiana University’s head basketball coach and became a legend there. Coach K. was the head coach at Duke University since 1980. A fact of interest, both of these two men knew each other in an earlier time. Coach Knight had been Mike Krzyzewski’s basketball coach when he played for the United States Military Academy at West Point. It was there they began to build a relationship of trust and respect that would follow and remain with them throughout both of their careers and beyond, as they were also friends. Each of these men have differing ways in which they lead their teams, but there are leadership styles which they shared when it came to coaching. When taking the model which Robert Katz developed we can see there are skills that did account for their success. Coach Knight held two of the leadership traits that were professed by Katz. Those were technical skills and conceptual skills. He had the ability to know exactly was needed and how to make changes based on each individual situation. According to Katz’s model, Coach Knight did not have human skills. He was known for his roughness (e.g; using high levels of profanity and throwing objects onto the court). He did not have human...
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...SAMPLE PAPER ENGINEERING ENGLISH Complete the sentences by choosing the most appropriate option, from the given lettered choices (A to D) below each. 1. Sensory cells _______ impulses by producing electrical signals. A. responding B. to respond C. respond to D. respond Each question below consists of a related pair of words, followed by five lettered pairs of words. Select the lettered pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair. 2. ENZYME: CATALYST:: A. vaccine: allergy B. bacterium: microbe C. gland: muscle D. vein: organ E. neuron: corpuscle 3. HORNS: BULL:: A. mane: lion B. wattles: turkey C. antlers: stag D. hoofs: horse E. wings: eagle Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters. 4. TRANSIENT: A. temporary B. shining C. dull D. permanent Questions 5-8 are based on the following passage. Although the schooling of fish is a familiar form of animal social behavior, how the school is formed and maintained is only beginning to be understood in detail. It had been thought that each fish maintains its position chiefly by means of vision. Our work has shown that, as each fish maintains its position, the lateral line, an organ sensitive to transitory changes in water displacement, is as important as vision. In each species a fish has a "preferred" distance...
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...just as much as teachers are, just in a different area of life. The coaches that do deserve to get paid more are the ones of high end sports that bring in large sums of money for their colleges. Coaches of National Championship caliber teams, in big time sports, in the NCAA deserve more than most, if not all professors at that school because of the large revenue their sport is bringing in. Why should anyone hire you as a coach? The main reason I should be hired as a coach is because I’ve mastered my sport, and I’ve been very successful in teaching my techniques to pupils of all ages. I’ve had experience with coaching kids from pre-k all the way up to seniors in high school, so my experience is there as well. I feel as if I’m a great role model as well, for young guys looking to accomplish some of the things I have accomplished myself. I’m also very well known to get along with the athletes I have coached. That’s something I feel is an extremely important quality a coach should have. What are your goals in the coaching profession? My goal as a coach is to affect the life of every single one of my athletes in one way or another. I also would like to take on the challenge of starting with a team that may be in the bottom of their division and seeing how quickly I could turn that program around. After that I’d want to win a state team title. Then after that I’d want to build a dynasty and leave a legacy for myself and my...
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...Coach K and Coach Knight had their own unique, simple and unregimented coaching techniques and leadership styles yet managed to keep up with the extraordinary records and wins. Coach K had 4 National wins, NCAA Championships, Coach of the year honors, 9 Final Four Appearances and was induced in the BBall Hall of Fame under his belt and Bob Knight had Big 10 coach of the year, 4 coach of the year , NIT championship 1979, 3 National Championships and he is one and the only coach to have a triple crown (Olympic gold, NIT and NCAA) title to his name. Besides being passionate, competent and disciplined they were perfectionist. Leadership styles can reflect on one’s upbringing and family background and human nature. Both the coaches inherited discipline and order. Coach Knight remembers being brought up by a highly disciplined father, immense discipline is shown in his coaching career throughout whereas, Coach K was humble and down to earth which shows the way he grew up in a poor family. They had great knowledge and understanding of the game and their roles. With power comes responsibility. They knew their social responsibilities and paid back my reinvesting their success in players and students around them. Coach K was the face of Duke University, he was the spokesperson and a special advisor to the university president while Coach Knight was the best professor and taught a course at Indiana University on “Methods of coaching”. Both of them very intrinsically motivated and passionate...
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...Growing up playing ball, which includes football, baseball, and my first love basketball, it has took me all across the world and allowed me to meet and network with other players and coaches. With that being said the game of basketball broaden my ideas all together. The love for the game drives me today to become someday a coach at the collegiate level. For this assignment I went forth with interviewing my coach Kelly Wells who has also influenced my life in many other ways than just the correct way of scoring the basketball. I began our conversation with coach Wells asking him to answer a few question about the lifestyle of his career and the first thing he said to me was to go another route. I thought that was pretty funny. He began to answer my first set of questions about why coaching, that I think every player would have said, which was the fact that he just loved it so much. After a while, I kind of turned into the one answering questions and he began to ask. The depth of our conversation consisted about his family and how they are a major part of his success. He explained how the understanding and reasoning with his career just takes off so much stress. He hates to miss things with his family such as children birthday’s or sometime anniversary dates because of games or practice or travel. However they understand and shares his love for coaching and the game of...
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...options for developing it within an organization. And in conclusion, I will identify 3 advantages and 3 disadvantages of developing in house coaching. 2 types of coaching * Sports Coaching: This is what many people think of when they hear the word “coach”. A “player” is helped to develop their skills by a “coach”. On the other hand, the term sports coach encompasses a wide range of roles and approaches, from the football manager on the touchline, through one-to-one coaches for athletes and players, to specialist coaches for fitness and health. There are also coaches who focus on the ‘mental game’, helping sports players fine-tune their psychological preparation for high-pressure events. * Executive coaching: is a form of business coaching which is typically aimed at developing senior managers, directors and key players within a business setting. It may enhance current performance, taking skills and abilities to a new level and help individuals adapt to new situations or it may address poor performance. This type of coaching may also be termed Leadership Coaching or Performance Coaching as it tends to target the same audience and similar issues. How coaching can be directive and non directive? 1. Directive: Is where the coach offers you solutions, tools and techniques for moving forward. You may like to be offered solutions however the danger is that the solution...
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...Coaching Done Right As a coach, you’re given an opportunity to make the biggest impact in an athlete’s life. Ever since I started playing sports I’ve always wanted to coach, but I believe Coach Mike my baseball coach was one of the big influences on me pursuing coaching. During the off season he’d come pick us up to go do morning practices. The extra time he put into making sure we were confident with our skills, the way he befriended us and the extra things he did to help us out really showed me the power a coach has. That was the defining moment where I decided I wanted to become a coach. I believe that no matter how many wins and championships you have your not a great coach unless you have connected with all your player and staff members. In today’s age, a coach is like an extra parent or a best friend to athletes. The role of a coach is to not only to teach their athletes the technical and tactical components of their sport, but to also show them good sportsmanship and character both on and off the field. In some cases a coach is the most important figure in a athletes life. Coaches encourage you to be the best you can possibly be and help prepare you for the next level. A coach is the first person an athlete will go to when they don’t know what to do. Through my experience playing sports that I noticed that kids are more...
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...Athletic directors typically appreciate working with coaches and athletes to improve teams by helping them reach their full potential by being responsible, working well with people, speaking well in front of a large crowd, and most importantly being a strong leader. Oftentimes athletic directors get overlooked, and won’t get the recognition they deserve, because all the glory and praise usually goes to the outstanding coaches who get the job done for their teams. Many people will totally forget about the tactical side of being in an athletic office. Seeing the vision long term, being persistent, and diligent is most definitely key to being a responsible leader of athletics at that particular school. Athletic directors should usually like being in a leadership position, and they sometimes can even be moved into positions with a conference office, which will probably pay more in the long run. Athletic directors provide enlightenment and direction for a school’s sports program to help them succeed in every way possible. They supply a budget and portion out spending items like the coaches salaries, team travel, equipment purchases, and facility preservations. This profession requires a master’s degree, as well as a coaching job from anywhere between three to five years, or just working in an athletic office. There are a number of jobs for athletic directors to take care of like checking to make sure their players are eligible, and to confirm some of their needs are taken care of...
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