PowerPak Collection Series: Leading Your Sports Team

By John C. Maxwell

Imagine a school where the leaders in student government, academics, the arts, and sports brought out the best in themselves and their peers. Impossible?? Maybe not!

Tommy Nelson's new PowerPak series by John C. Maxwell adapts for ages 10 - 14 the leadership techniques from Maxwell's New York Times bestseller Developing the Leader within You.

In the PowerPak series, Maxwell gives a simple step-by-step plan for any young person to learn leadership skills before reaching high school or college. Topics covered include peer relationships, influence, priorities, integrity, problem solving, and self-discipline.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Release date: Jul 1, 2001
• ISBN: 9781418552992

John C. Maxwell

John C. Maxwell es autor, coach y conferencista número 1 en ventas según el New York Times con más de 34 millones de libros vendidos en más de cincuenta idiomas. Ha sido calificado como el líder número 1 en negocios y el experto en liderazgo más influyente del mundo. Sus organizaciones: John Maxwell Company, John Maxwell Team, EQUIP y John Maxwell Leadership Foundation han traducido sus enseñanzas a setenta idiomas y las han utilizado para formar a millones de líderes de todos los países del mundo. El doctor Maxwell, que ha sido galardonado con el Premio Horatio Alger y el Premio Madre Teresa por la Paz Global y el Liderazgo de Luminary Leadership Network, es de gran influencia para directores ejecutivos de Fortune 500, presidentes de naciones y empresarios de todo el mundo. Para obtener más información sobre él, visite JohnMaxwell.com.

Book preview

Leading Your

Sports Team

John C. Maxwell

Leadership Books for Students  

(Based on Developing the Leader Within You)

Leading from the Lockers:

Student Edition

ISBN 0-8499-7722-3

Leading from the Lockers:

Guided Journal

ISBN 0-8499-7723-1

The PowerPak Series

Leading Your Sports Team

ISBN 0-8499-7725-8

Leading at School

ISBN 0-8499-7724-X

Leading in Your Youth Group

ISBN 0-8499-7726-6

Leading As a Friend

ISBN 0-8499-7727-4

These books are outstanding. John Maxwell’s leadership principles have been communicated in a way that any student can understand and practice. Take them and go make a difference in your world.

—DR. TIM ELMORE,

Vice President of Leadership Development, EQUIP;

Author of Nurturing the Leader in Your Child

Leading Your

Sports Team

by

John C. Maxwell

with

Mark Littleton

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POWERPAK SERIES: LEADING YOUR SPORTS TEAM

Based on John C.Maxwell’s Developing the Leader Within You.

Copyright © 2001 by Injoy Inc.

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the publisher, with the exception of brief excerpts in reviews.

Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Tommy Nelson®, a division of Thomas Nelson, Inc.

Special thanks to Ron Luce and Teen Mania for providing research materials for this book.

Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the International Children’s Bible, New Century Version, copyright © 1983, 1986, 1988.

Scripture quotations marked (NKJV) are from THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION of the Bible, copyright © 1979, 1980, 1982, Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Maxwell, John C., 1947–

Leading your sports team / originated by John C.Maxwell; adapted by Mark Littleton.

p. cm. — (PowerPak collection)

ISBN 0-8499-7725-8

1. Leadership—Religious aspects—Christianity—Juvenile literature. [1. Leadership—Religious aspects—Christianity. 2. Sports—Religious aspects—Christianity.] I. Littleton,Mark R., 1950- II. Title. III. Series.

BV4597.53.L43 M39 2001

248.8'3—dc21

2001030743

Printed in the United States of America

01 02 03 04 05 PHX 5 4 3 2 1

Contents

1. Lead Your Team to Victory! (Yes, You!)

2. Leadership Is Influence

3. Priorities: Setting Your Sights on the Right Goals

4. Integrity: You Are What You Do

5. Changing without Losing Your Jersey

6. Problem Solving: Fixing What’s Broken, Healing What Hurts

7. Attitude: Got a Bad ’Tude? Get the Right One!

8. Relationships: Are You a People-Eater or a People-Encourager?

9. Self-Discipline: Sweating with the Best

1

Lead Your Team to Victory! (Yes, You!)

God may be calling you to lead right now! Yes, you! He may have plans for you to someday lead your church, your community, your country. What are you going to do when He calls? Panic? See if He’ll ask someone else? But God won’t accept no for an answer. He’ll expect you to lead.

How will you know what to do? By learning to lead now—in every part of your life. The great thing is that you don’t have to be born a great leader, you can learn to lead. That’s right, leading is a skill. God doesn’t always choose great leaders. He chooses good people whom He makes into great leaders.

You may think, I’m just a kid. Who’ll follow me? With God’s help, you may be surprised who’ll follow you. There have always been young leaders. Look around.

Maybe you think, But why should I want to lead? All it will give me is a headache!

You’re right! There are headaches that come with being a leader. Solving problems can be hard. You’re dealing with arguments, keeping temperamental teammates in line. But there are also high payoffs for those who lead. Among them:

s1 Respect from friends and fellow team members

s1 The satisfaction of a job well done

s1 Possibly being the leader behind a winning team

s1 Academic and sports awards

s1 The preparedness and possibility of leading others later as an adult

Ultimately, the most respected, most remembered, and most revered people are our leaders. People like Michael Jordan, Kurt Warner, and Sammy Sosa