07-27-2015, 04:53 AM
From the article linked by PaulP:
In 2002, we finished last and our veterans were mostly on the wane. That was NOT a time when the players should have still been empowered. We had a team that was playing dress-ups in the clothes of the 1995 Premiership team and they weren't worthy of being treated in the same way.
Quote:What he learnt, he says, is that "your leadership style should be specific to the situation you find yourself in with the individual and the group".That is perfectly consistent with my comments. Player empowerment may work with highly-motivated veterans but it isn't appropriate if you have young players or lazy older ones. Parkin notes that a more authoritarian approach is appropriate then.
"That was the great change in my thinking, having been pretty much an autocrat for a long, long time," he said.
"I came to understand that (being an) autocrat works for a younger group that needs direction and wants to know what, how, when and why, but as they mature there is that changing relationship with the leader, to the point where they will take control of their own situation."
In 2002, we finished last and our veterans were mostly on the wane. That was NOT a time when the players should have still been empowered. We had a team that was playing dress-ups in the clothes of the 1995 Premiership team and they weren't worthy of being treated in the same way.