Create Space

Creating space for your players to take ownership is one of the toughest challenges for a coach. But it unlocks the potential to finding elite, sustained success.

It’s a great challenge, because when we think of coaching and leadership, we think about being in control. Telling people what to do. But the art of elite leadership is giving your team enough space to figure it out with their teammates, while providing the guidelines and structure that will help lead them down the right path.

Your leadership is much more powerful and effective when you give up control. Give your team the room to make some mistakes, to ask questions and to challenge the approach you take. When they discover the autonomy involved in their path to success, that’s when they will really buy in to everything you are doing.

The hardest part for you is giving them the freedom they need to take ownership. Year after year, you should examine ways you can give up control and create more ownership. Your team will be much better for it.