We’re finally to the last part of my series of Leadership
Lessons I learned from World Champion Tony Dungy.

This is arguably the most important of the 5 lessons, but it
is also dependent on the understanding and application of the
first 4, which are:

1. Direction
2. Perseverence - Staying the course
3. Develop a Thick Skin
4: Discernment

Coach Dungy’s final Leadership Lesson is one, in my opinion,
that gets overlooked by many people in every aspect of life:

5. Be yourself

To be a great coach and/or leader, we have to pull knowledge
and experience from other people whose opinions and actions
we respect and admire.

But it can be easy sometimes to go too far in emulating a
particular coach’s demeanor or style because we respect their
accomplishments.

However, that isn’t being true to yourself and your athletes
or children or even peers will see through that.

Coach Dungy’s quote during his talk was “A genuine Tony Dungy
is always better than an imitation Vince Lombardi.”

And the same is true for you. Learn as much as you can from
others, but be yourself and develop your own coaching style,
method of implementation, tools and techniques.

Of course you’re going to borrow other peoples’ information
as you establish the foundation you will build off of in
the coming years.

It’s critical that you first establish that foundation so you
can assess where your results are coming from not only on
a year to year basis, but month to month, week to week and
day by day.

If you don’t follow a specific system and repeat the process
over and over until you obtain enough data to start making
your own changes, your athletes will *always* get inconsistent
results.

So make Complete Speed Training your foundation for athletic
development.

Follow the advice of World Champion Head Coach Tony Dungy.

You can’t really go wrong if you follow that path, can you?

In speed,

Latif Thomas

P.S. Listen to what just one satisfied Complete Speed Training
Customer had to say.

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