UNIT 5 PLANNING & LEADING SPORTS ACTIVITIES

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UNIT 5PLANNING LEADING SPORTS ACTIVITIES
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ACTIVITY 1What does a good leader look like?
THEY NEED TO BE?
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What does a good leader look like?

• They need to have a wide variety of traits
• (things that make up your personality and
• behaviour)
• These can be categorised into
• Skills
• Qualities
• Responsibilities

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What skills do leaders need?

• They need the following 7traits
• Communication
• Use of language
• Organisation of equipment
• Knowledge
• Activity structure
• Targets
• Evaluation

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Communication

• Sharing information successfully with other
  people
• Variety of ways
• -verbally
• -non verbally
• -listening
• -demonstration
• -assisting

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Organisation of equipment

• Plan ahead to book facilities, resources
• Do you have enough balls, cones etc
• Is the equipment suitable, age, gender, size
• Is the equipment safe to use

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knowledge

• Of the topic being played, subject knowledge
• Health and safety for the activity
• Understand emergency procedures appropriate to
  activity

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Activity structure

• How you plan a session
• Warm up, stretch, main activity, game, cool down
• All game time?
• All skill based?
• All running?
• All drills?

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Target setting

• Improve performance
• Can be short and long term goals
• Vary from person to person
• Can alter dependent of results
• To motivate performer

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Use of language

• Make sure everyone knows what you mean e.g. LBW,
  ready to belay
• Make sure its suitable for the age so not to
  confuse and make it easy as possible o understand
• Can use analogies e.g. In cricket bowling arm
  action like a windmill past your ear

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Evaluation

• Of the leader and the participant
• Assess how things went and how can improve for
  next time

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Leadership styles

• Autocratic command style will tell you what to
  do and when to do it
• Democratic will ask for opinions from group to
  take more responsibility
• Liberal combination of autocratic and
  democratic
• Laissez-faire. Group makes all the decisions
  required group needs lots of self motivation

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What qualities do leaders need?

• Leaderships style
• Appearance
• Personality
• Enthusiasm
• Motivation
• Humour
• Confidence

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Appearance

• Setting the standard
• You are a role model
• This can make you feel more confident
• Others will see you as knowing what you are doing

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Motivation

• Intrinsic self motivated, improve self, beat
  you personal bests
• Extrinsic for fame, reward, money

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Personality

• You must have a lot of patience
• You must be able to see that people have a wide
  range of abilities
• You must be able to adapt as the others may find
  this very hard

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Enthusiasm

• You have to enjoy what you are doing
• The people you are leading can tell when you are
  not and will have a negative impact on them
• If you seem up for it you may bring the others up

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Humour

• When appropriate humour is a useful tool
• It can assist in motivation and bringing groups
  together
• To get people relaxed so will participate more

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Confidence

• If you project it people will believe it even if
  you feel nervous
• Individuals will put their trust, faith in you if
  you are confident
• E.g. Think about an abseiling instructor if they
  seem nervous would you go off a 100m high
  building?

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Examples of Sports Leaders

• Can you name and write down some examples of
  Sports leaders

ANDREW STRAUSS RIO FERDINAND MARTIN JOHNSON ALEX
FERGUSON JOSE MOURINHIO STEVEN GERRARD RICKY
PONTING DAVID BECKHAM
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What responsibilities do leaders need?

• Professional conduct
• Health and safety
• Child protection
• Ethics and values
• Rules and regulations
• Legal obligations
• Insurance
• Equality

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Professional conduct

• The manner in which you behave
• If you behave properly then there is no excuse
  for those you are leading to behave
  inappropriately
• Must provide positive experiences, fair play and
  by playing within the rules which are constantly
  applied

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Health Safety

• You have a responsibility to your self and the
  participants
• Constantly check for hazards and dangers
• This applies to the participants as well as the
  environment they are in which can change quickly
• You are there to minimise the dangers and risks
  to avoid injury throughout
• Equipment needs to be checked prior to use if its
  not in good condition do not use

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Child protection

• As leader you cannot allow a child or children to
  be put into situations of risk, they should enjoy
  what they are doing
• You should also be able to spot signs of abuse
• CRB checks if working with children or vulnerable
  people

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Ethics Values

• Ethics are actions that are honest, fair and
  responsible
• Values are thoughts that you believe are
  important

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Rules Regulation

• Government initiatives to ensure health and
  safety
• Health Safety at work act (1974)
• Control of substances and hazardous to health
  regulations (1994)
• The safety of sports ground act (1975)
• Health and safety (first aid act 1981)
• Fire safety and safety of places sport act (1987)
• The children act (1989)

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Legal Obligation

• These are usually passed by law and must be
  adhered to all the time
• Examples
• Disability discrimination act 1995 all must
• be able to participate

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Insurance

• You as the leader are liable for their safety
• You must have appropriate insurance for what you
  are doing
• If you do not and they suffer injury you can be
  sued for neglect

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Equality

• Sports equality is about fairness in sport, and
  equality of access. It is about changing the
  culture and structure of sport to ensure that it
  becomes equally accessible to all members of
  society, whatever their age, ability, gender,
  race, ethnicity, sexuality or socio-economic
  status.