By Adrian
You know how to lead a huddle. Whether playing an intramural game with friends or coaching your child’s school team, you are a great leader and can rally the troops to play their best. This leadership you possess as an athlete, and possibly a coach, doesn’t have to stop once the game ends. You’d be surprised to find that your leadership skills on the football field can extend to other aspects of your personal and professional life as well.
Build Your Own Brand and Lead Your Troops
As a leader on the football field, you can transfer those skills to building your own company with a direct-selling company such as Amway. Interject your focus and drive to help you garner higher profits and income when selling high-quality products online. Promote your products, develop a sales funnel, and rely on the goal-setting mentality you possess as a coach — doing so will allow you to set sales goals for yourself and team as a new business owner. Partnering with Amway allows you to build your own business and gives you the opportunity to take what you’ve learned and used on the field, to create a winning culture for your sales team off the field.
Become a Leader in Your Office
Being a leader on the field means being vocal. It allows you to express your opinions and your vantage point from the sideline, and also allows you to expand upon your expertise in the sport to players. You can translate this into the office as well. As an employee, whether you are a top C-level executive or a salesperson on the sales floor, you can speak up and help co-workers, managers, and executives. Seeing things from the base level, interjecting your voice about the work you’ve completed, or customers you’ve helped, and expressing your opinions, can lead to an internal discussion leading to change. It can help you become a greater communicator with team members, and also help your company change for the better.
Become a Team Player
Sports also teach you the beauty of a team environment and collaboration, which leads to success. When you work together as co-workers, in a volunteer setting, or even in the home, everything is better. At work, helping your co-workers do side tasks at the end of a shift makes things operate smoothly and allows everyone to go home a little earlier. If you’re volunteering at an event, working together allows you to serve or help more people in need, and keep the operations running smoothly. Or, at home, you can team up to finish chores together, making these tasks more fun, and eliminate the monotony of having to do these tasks on your own. Working as a team makes the day go by faster, makes it easier to complete tasks properly, and allows everyone to have an input on how things are accomplished in different settings.
Become a Teacher
As a coach, you’re teaching. You teach your players how to tackle, how to pass the ball, run the offense smoothly, and teach defensive players to cover their spots and to avoid major gaps on the field. You can take this leadership on the field to your place of employment. You can teach a co-worker a special skill you have, work with department heads to eliminate waste, or if you work as a senior-level executive, teach employees new skills to become more efficient in their position. Teaching, rather than yelling or simply commanding people to do their job, will make employees more appreciative of their position, and more willing to do the job they’re hired to do.
As a coach, you’re ultimately the boss. In your home or at work, you might also have leadership duties, meaning you need to use the skills you have, to lead everyone to work cooperatively and get the job done. The skills you have as a leader on the field can greatly benefit you off the field, both in your personal and professional life. These are a few of the essential skills you have as a coach, which can be taken to other areas of your life, to create a more balanced, successful environment for everyone.
Adrian is a lifelong thrill seeker and adrenaline junkie. A freelance sports writer, Adrian is passionate about health and fitness and pushing his body to limits. Whether he’s rambling in the beautiful Cotswolds or bungee jumping in New Zealand, Adrian is a fervent believer in making the most of the great outdoors.