Not a big NBA fan. Been to just one pre-season GSW game when I first went to college and a WNBA game 15\u00a0years later. I do like basketball though. “Played” it (benchwarmer), coached it (youth leagues) and I include\u00a0shooting baskets at the park court as an option in my exercise routine. As a spectator, I prefer NCAA.<\/p>\n
Anyway, this article “Why LeBron Trusts His Teammates) by Ben Cohen and published in the Sports section of the June 6, 2018 edition of the WSJ caught my interest because I did watch much of Game 2 of the current NBA Finals. There was commentary about the “incident” in Game 1 and an analysis of LeBron’s body language. It’s worth noting because LeBron is clearly in a leadership position.<\/p>\n
The article is also notable because it’s much about a story of LeBron’s past when he first played youth league basketball. I feel a connection because of my coaching youth basketball for nine years; and I learned a lot from this experience – some of it is\u00a0used to\u00a0build the YCISL program.<\/p>\n
“But what happened that night is something that James has never forgotten”<\/em> Perfect fit for the Message to My Past Self exercise in the YCISL Your Personal Story activity. Leaders are driven by life lessons that affect the growth mindset.<\/p>\n “Right then I knew that this was a team game”<\/em> Teamwork and team-building are two leadership activities which we include in the YCISL program. The main challenge is to make good teamwork automatic and instinctively positive.<\/p>\n “At 9 years old…he knew how to pass to 7-year-olds without knocking them down.” Sign of emotional intelligence. Self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and social management.<\/p>\n “We both was good at what we did.”<\/em> There has to be respect as well as trust in order to maintain a team’s positive mindset. How many leaders today can sit out and spectate one half of a “game” without getting in the way?<\/p>\n “It’s what he’s been trained to do since the moment he started playing this sport”<\/em> The YCISL is a training program. It is structurally modeled like a basketball practice with a scrimmage thrown in. The life lessons that we provide to our YCISL youth will hopefully\u00a0lead to future quality leaders who can readily apply EQ.<\/p>\n ———<\/p>\n *This article is online at https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/why-lebron-james-still-trusts-his-teammates-1528211656. However, it’s title includes “(Still)” which is not in the print edition.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not a big NBA fan. Been to just one pre-season GSW game when I first went to college and a WNBA game 15\u00a0years later. I do like basketball though. “Played” it (benchwarmer), coached it (youth leagues) and I include\u00a0shooting baskets at the park court as an option in my exercise routine. As a spectator, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4243,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions\/4243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}