Student-Athlete Leadership Workshops

The Haverford College athletic department partners with Strive: How You Lead Matters to provide exceptional, comprehensive leadership training to all student-athletes. Strive's workshops which are grounded in a research-based, customizable curriculum are delivered by engaging and seasoned facilitators with collegiate athletic and education backgrounds.  Through intentional programming, student-athletes tackle concepts of leadership styles, motivation, culture creation, and empathy. Student-athletes leave with an increased sense of intrapersonal and interpersonal awareness that allows them to compete at a high level while also serving as more effective players, teammates, captains, and members of the campus community.

 

Presentations to Student-Athletes In 2022-23

Dates and Times

First Years

Sunday, September 25th at 2pm in WCC 313

Sunday, December 4th at 2pm in WCC 313

Sunday, February 5th at 2pm in WCC 313

Sunday, February 19th at 2pm in WCC 313

Sophomores & Juniors

Sunday, September 25th at 3:30pm in WCC 313

Sunday, December 4th at 3:30pm in WCC 313

Sunday, February 5th at 3:30pm in WCC 313

Sunday, February 19th at 3:30pm in WCC 313

Captains

Sunday, September 25th at 5pm in WCC 313

Sunday, November 6th at 3pm in the GIAC conference room

Sunday, December 4th at 5pm in WCC 313

Sunday, February 5th at 5pm in WCC 313

Sunday, February 19th at 5pm in WCC 313

Captains: Goals and Content

  • Creating accountability and team culture
  • How to handle difficult situations
  • Creation of a captain’s action plan for intentional team leadership
  • Identify communication styles within self and teammates and develop strategies for communication
  • Discuss intentionality surrounding team culture and how to reinforce desired vision
  • Strategies for accountability, assertiveness, and peer to peer conflict resolution
  • Create peer network of support for challenging moments requiring situational leadership
  • Motivating teammates and yourself
  • Difficult conversations and conflict resolution
  • Accountability
  • Got Grit? Becoming a Mentally Strong Leader-Athlete

Juniors: Leadership Applied

  • Leadership tools and scenarios
  • Leadership styles
  • Accountability and communication

Sophomores: Communication Styles

  • Communicating with captains
  • Communicating with peers
  • Communication with coaches
  • Difficult conversations and conflict resolution
  • Accountability and motivation
  • Opening letters from yourself

First Years: Foundations of Leadership

  • Dispelling Myths of Leadership
  • Followership
  • Growth Mindset
  • Mistake Ritual

First Years: Know Thyself

  • Identifying what matters most as a student-athlete
  • Identifying strengths, weaknesses, and styles
  • Understand where they want to go
  • Better communication
  • Write letters to future self