Leadership Training at the Tiger Paw Elite Summer Hockey School

 

A large component of the Tiger Paw Elite Summer hockey School is the Championship Habits. Our group is made up of captains from professional hockey, to college hockey, three former Tiger captains and a captain from the 2007 Jeux du Quebec girls team to mentor and guide our group into being stronger team mates.

Leadership is a tool that gets you through adverse times, be it as a player or a team...strong leadership supports your team mates when they are having a difficult challenge and the same with the team, the leadership gives hope and direction when the odds are not looking in the team's favor.

 Leadership helps players adjust to new roles, especially when you leave a "smaller pond" where you may have been a "bigger fish" and now are in the "big pond" with a bunch of "big fish". How do you adjust to that different role? The tools that these leaders in our championship habits program provide, teaches the adjustments that are needed and allows for the players to accept the new role without taking a hit to the confidence.

While it is always a simply message, and it is entirely true, every role on the team is vitally important, the leader makes the team understand just how important...and a lot of that work is by demonstrating that now job is too small, no responsibility is too small, as it is all for the team and the team's goals are the objective for everyone wearing those colors...Governor, General Manager, Coaches, players, dry land staff, medical support, EVERYBODY!

These leadership messages can be about, getting your homework done so you do not compromise your training schedule and letting down your team with poor time management skills, not getting the proper amount of rest to recover so that you can compete at your highest level, putting the right nutrition in your body to fuel the elite athlete that you are and making the social sacrifices that your friends don't have to make because they did not elect to pursue the life of an elite athlete...Because, your team and your team mates depend on you delivering on each one of those components if you are going to be a member of their team!