final cheer presentation
TRANSCRIPT
Effective Teamwork Strategies in the
Cheerleading Organization
By:Vanessa, Danielle & Brooke
What Is a Teamwork?
• Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results ~Andrew Carnegie
Goals
• Clear and Achievable goals
• Defining individual roles
• Communicating clearly and openly
• Making effective decisions
• Balancing participation
• Managing conflict • Creating a positive
atmosphere • Developing
cooperative relationships
• Utilizing participative leadership
Satisfied Team
• More input leads to better ideas and decisions.
• Higher quality output. • Involvement of
everyone in the process.
• Shared information means increased learning.
• Increased understanding of other people’s perspectives.
• Increase opportunity to draw on other people’s strengths.
• Ability to compensate for individual weaknesses.
LEADERSHIPMotto•The Gerstell Motto is "Leadership, Honor, Courage•“doing the right thing when no one is looking regardless of consequences”•“the ability to act in the face of fear”•More input leads to better ideas and decisions•Shared information means increased learning.
• Increased understanding of other people’s perspectives. •Increase opportunity to draw on other people’s strengths. •Ability to compensate for individual weaknesses.
Responsibiles• It is a leader’s responsibility to link the
individual goals of each team member with the common goal to ensure motivation and desire to achieve it.
Individual goals instructed by
the team leader with the
common goal ensures
motivation and desire to obtain
the goal!
Clear allocation of responisbilites reduces the possibilities of intra team conflict.
Team members should be able to respect the role of everyone in the team
Every team member should know that their role in the team is crucial and is valued by their team leaders.
INDIVIDUAL
INTERVIEW WITH HEAD COACH
MELISSA ANTHERS
•Well I started cheering at 5, so I have dealt with many leaders. My mother being the one I admire the most. Just being with her, and going to all of her meetings I got to experience ‘adult’ conversation, and subconsciously picked up on all cheer/gymnastics conversations.
How many levels of team leaders did you
interact with?
•You see that often, like any sport people want to ‘PROVE’ themselves. When people overreact I sometimes ignore them. People have talents, that is why they are on my team. We need to act as one, I tell my team “we influence each other!”
What happens when two priorities
compete for your time?
•Outside of practice and competition, my team is very busy with their lives. Example, one of the girls is actually a pre-med student and volunteers a lot of her time to Roswell. If I needed something she never has her phone on, or doesn’t get back to me when something comes up. This commitment is much like a full time job. Otherwise, we are all really good friends and keep in contact quite often.
What is the toughest communication
problem you have face?
• I am pretty good when it comes to communication, but I know sometimes when I say something people don’t understand the way I meant it to sound. So sometimes, things get confused. I try to think a bit harder, and make sure all points are covered before I ask ANYTHING!
What do you see as some of your most
pressing developmental
needs? •"Well I've been pretty fortunate as far as team leaders go, my first year of college I worked with a team leader who was pretty inaccessible. If you walked into her office to ask a question, you got the sense that you were bothering her, so we just learned to get help from each other instead. I wouldn't say she was my least-favorite leader, because she was a great leader in a lot of ways, but I would have preferred that she'd made herself more available to us and given us more direction."
Describe the toughest manager you've ever
had?
When groups work together, conflict
often erupts. Tell me about a
time that conflict occurred In one of your work groups and what you did
about it.
A good way to approach conflict is to try to
understand why and how it happens. There are tons of theories in
psychology but a framework I like is
based on something called Transactional
Analysis or TA.
One of the toughest jobs cheerleading coaches
have is managing conflict that might erupt
on a cheerleading squad. It’s bound to
happen sooner or later and I’m sure most cheer coaches have created
methods that work well for them.
Every interaction we have, whether with
someone else or with ourselves, involves
these parts. The neat thing is that you can quickly learn how to
figure out any transaction and
determine what you need to do to fix it.
Tell me about problems you had and how you handled them.
We all have problems, but sometimes we forget to leave them at the door
My team is very competitive, so conflict erupts there.
I make sure to nip it in the bud, and I usually handle that in an uncomfortable
face to face meeting
What is essential for a team to be successful?Respect Participation Trust
Ownership for reponisbilities - this one is number one for me, wheather it
is here on the team or in real life
How would your teammates with describe you? Over analyzer Perfectionist Well rounded Know-it- all on some days
Tell me what role you are with the team and why.Well, obviously I am the Team Leader.
I took me years to be in this position, but I often turn to my mother who has over 35
years in this industry.
Like anybody who has worked their whole lives to one passion, I proved my leadership skills when I
was a freshmen in high school and in my sophomore year I got voted Captain.
• Effective discipline • Treating the team fairly and equally • Satisfying the teams’ needs • Setting achievable goals that are related to the tasks to
be completed • Positive reinforcement • Providing rewards and incentives
Motivation Techniques
• Ultimately, it’s a case of getting to understand the needs of your team and what motivates them both individually and collectively if you want to increase team motivation and have your team thrive and prosper. Motivation Myths
• “you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.”
What are your views on motivation?
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
Tell me about a time you pitched in
to help someone finish a task even though it “wasn’t your job.” What was the result?
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Some of the Teambuilding Adventures we have done Includes:Camping, Paintballing, Beach, and our favorite Habitat for Humanity
THANK YOU!