Player Leadership Development: Identifying Core Values
Every Wednesday, we have a leadership development meeting with our basketball guys where we substitute 30 minutes of our weight room time for a lesson on leadership. This past week, we talked about the importance of identifying values that you want to live by, and we had our guys create a set of values, or a value system based on their beliefs and the goals that they want to accomplish in basketball and in life.
If you are not familiar with Eric Thomas, I think you should be. He is an emerging motivational speaker who has really taken YouTube by storm the past few years. His rise really start with the speech used in the video below:
He now speaks around the country and world to all types of organizations, ranging from professional sports teams to Fortune 500 companies. I’m sure many of the guys on your team are familiar with him and his work.
To drive home the importance of having principles or values that govern your life instead of relying on your ‘feelings,’ we used a 4 ½ minute audio from one of his ‘mixtapes.’ I made the audio into a simple YouTube video that displays some of the valuable quotes that he uses throughout.
We also gave them a handout that they could use to write down their core values that I have attached. We require our guys to have binders and each handout that they receive each week, we have them place into their binders.
Learn more from a good set of notes from the Bob Walsh Dynamic Leadership Academy
As with any leadership development lesson that you teach, this is good for yourself as a coach as well. I now have my core values posted on my office at home and at work, and I try to read them every day and use them to guide my actions and decision making.
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Coach Reggie Bibb is a former college basketball player who has coached at the college, high school, junior high school and AAU levels. He started out as an assistant coach at Seminole State College where he helped head coach Tom Mills earn two conference top two finishes in three years. In two out of his three seasons in Seminole, the Seminole State Trojans won at least 20 games, including one regular season conference championship and another trip to the conference tournament championship game.
Reggie has since coached at the junior high and high school levels, and even spent a year as an assistant principal.
His strengths are in player development, building team culture and chemistry, and building offensive and defensive systems that accentuate his players’ abilities and that help his players utilize what they do best to allow them to have individual and contribute to team success. He also is a great communicator and great at building relationships with his players, parents, and administration.
Reggie currently lives in Lavon, TX, just outside of Dallas, with his wife, Alyssa, and his three daughters: Alexa, London-Mila, and Zoe.
“I hope that I can bring you all content that can help you build your own personal philosophy as a person and as a coach, content that will help you reach and grow your players, and content that will help you put your team in position to be successful through effective strategies, systems, and quick hitters.”
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