{"id":1320,"date":"2014-04-07T12:04:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T11:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2014-04-07T12:04:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T11:04:11","slug":"picking-team-captains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/07\/picking-team-captains\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking team captains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A while back I came across a <a href=\"http:\/\/volleyballu.wordpress.com\/how-should-a-volleyball-captains-be-selected\/\">blog post<\/a> which discusses the subject of picking team captains.&nbsp;The blogger in question took something of a military view on leadership and the selection of leaders.&nbsp;Generally speaking, though, the major question was whether the team should select captains or the coach. Each method has pluses and minuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Team votes on their captain<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>On the plus side, if we as coaches allow the team to pick their captain there&#8217;s a pretty good probability of team buy-in for the choice. The risk, of course is that you get it what essentially is a popularity contest which doesn&#8217;t reflect actual leadership. You could also end up with a squad split based on which player ends up being leader and which one doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Coach picks the team captain<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>Here, the benefit is that the coach can select a player who most demonstrates the <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/the-qualities-of-a-good-team-captain\/\">characteristics they want in the team&#8217;s leader<\/a>. The risk, however, is that the team does not accept the selected player well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The author of the blog post offers a split solution of having two captains &#8211; one voted and one coach-picked. I&#8217;ve definitely seen teams do this. I&#8217;ve also seen teams have multiple captains who were either strictly voted for or coach-selected. The advantage to the multiple-captain situation is you are able to balance strengths and weaknesses among the captains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I personally tend strongly toward the coach-selection model. For me, I think the risks in the democratic model are high, while if I&#8217;m doing my job of observing team dynamics I should be able to avoid picking a captain the team won&#8217;t accept (not that it&#8217;s a guarantee, of course). Importantly, I also want to ensure that the team&#8217;s captain is someone with whom I can work and communicate, to whom I can delegate, and from whom I can get meaningful information and feedback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What about you? What&#8217;s your team captain approach?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a couple of different ways volleyball coaches and teams select their team captains. Do you have one you prefer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[60,107,191,322],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching","tag-beginner","tag-coaching-philosophy","tag-leadership","tag-team-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}