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Education Stadium’s Student-Athlete Leadership Team experiences are fun, engaging, collaborative sessions designed for your school’s team leaders.

High-Performing teams are driven by strong leaders.  Education Stadium has taken the most critical, practical leadership skills and created high-impact learning experiences for your high-potential student-athletes.
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SALT Learning modules include finding your own leadership style, fundamental qualities of a team leader, making decisions, applying positive peer pressure, accountability, managing peer conflict, communication in 1-on-1 and team situations, setting goals and high standards at both the team and individual level, mentoring other players, building authentic team relationships, embracing and promoting a “1 Goal, Many Roles” methodology, & more.

“The girls were exposed to new ways to effectively communicate and motivate each other while striving toward a team goal of making your teammates better. We saw many of our more introverted players accept new roles by becoming more vocal or simply leading more by example after we attended. Identifying goals, both personal and team, became more of a focus for our players.”
Al Michaloski
Al Michalowski
“ I loved that this workshop was interactive and helped me to learn more about myself as a leader and how to improve as one on and off the field. I like the fact that building these skills won’t just help me as an athlete but also in my future as a college student and beyond.”
Mia Lake, high school and travel softball player
Mia Lake

Programs

Accountability
This module takes students through the meaning and implications of accountability; the traits of accountability that are not just innate, but can be learned and practiced.  Students develop a personalized plan to become a more accountable student-athlete and to identify people in their network to help them be more accountable on a daily basis.

  • Develop their own framework for building the traits of accountability
  • Correlate successful team results with a culture of accountability.
  • Understand the concept of positive peer pressure and its benefits, specifically by incorporating Accountability Partner(s) into their lives.Defining leadership in sports and discussing its importance.

We Are All Leaders (Self-leadership)
Students will be introduced to the fundamental aspects of PERSONAL leadership – lifelong skills that extend beyond the playing field:

  • Defining leadership in sports and discussing its importance.
  • 6 key qualities of sports leaders (such as commitment, being open to coaching and criticism, being flexible and open to change, and how to develop them for yourself.

Each attendee will scorecard themselves in the 6 areas of personal leadership, and create a simple action plan to work on developing these skills immediately.Students will be introduced to the fundamental aspects of PERSONAL leadership – lifelong skills that extend beyond the playing field:

Teamwork: We, not Me
Students will learn the fundamental tenets of how great teams operate and how Teamwork is a key ingredient.
Each attendee will learn:

  • The concept of “1 Goal, Many Roles” and how it applies to their team.
  • How to incorporate personal goals into team goals
  • How everyone plays the role of supporter to their team, and specific ways to play the “supporter” role, regardless of position or ability.
  • The power of authentic team relationships

Communication
Students will learn how and when to communicate powerfully, regardless of personality type.
Each attendee will learn:

  • The various times when communication is needed on the group or 1-on-1 level as part, and how positive peer pressure plays a role in these situations.
  • Communication tools like non-verbal body language, eye contact, emotion, brevity and how to do use them effectively.
  • How to provide constructive criticism and feedback to a teammate in a “move-forward” manner.

Overcoming Obstacles
Students will learn the critical skill of converting Obstacles into Opportunities.
Each attendee will:

  • Understand what Resilience is and how certain pro and college athletes use obstacles as a driving force.
  • Identify both team and individual performance obstacles, how they can work to convert them to opportunities.
  • Identify a support system – a set of people who they can call on for help, tied to the obstacles they are or may be facing.

Optimism
Students will learn how to develop and harness the lifelong benefits from maintaining an Optimistic mindset.
Each attendee will learn:

  • How to accept their inherent weaknesses, and reduce pessimism as a result.
  • What the “optimistic player” looks like – their frame of mind and how they inject positivity into their team.
  • Identify a support system – a set of people who they can call on for help, tied to the obstacles they are or may be facing.

Problem Solving
Students will develop problem-solving skills to help them – and their team – improve results and make decisions based on information and clarity.

  • The 7 basic steps of problem-solving.
  • How to identify the “root cause” of an issue by asking the question “Why?”.
  • How to create an Action Plan and make a decision based on correctly identifying a problem’s root cause.

Setting Goals and Self-Reliance
Students will develop a specific personal goal and lay the groundwork for accomplishing the goal through action planning.

  • The power and importance of Self-Reliance, how they are in control of their own future performance, and how self-reliance drives the goal-setting process.
  • The concept of Continuous Improvement and how it applies to personal achievement – whether it be on the field, in the classroom, or in life.
  • The process of Setting Goals and creating specific Action Plans to support reaching goals through targeting key dates, measurables, identifying potential obstacles, and ensuring they have the right tools and people around them to achieve.

High Standards
Students will gain practical knowledge on how to establish high standards for both themselves and their team.

  • Learn how high-performing athletes and coaches maintain high standards as part of their daily life
  • Actively create a set of Team Standards with other students
  • Identify specific actions to take to ensure those standards are met, as well as people, tools, and resources that may be needed to attain the desired results of the standards established

Time Management and Organization for Student-Athletes
Students will learn the important skills of organization and time management given the demands on today’s student-athletes and focus challenges.

  • How to analyze their current time spent and build skills to better manage that time to increase productivity and confidence.
  • How to analyze their current time spent and build skills to better manage that time to increase productivity and confidence.
  • The advantages of creating routines; building out their own routine(s).
  • How to prioritize activities and to create daily to-do lists and schedules, as well as long-term planning and time management skills.

Mental Performance 1
Students will be introduced to three critical mental skills to improve performance: Self-Talk, Body Language, and Breathing

  • Develop a gameplan to convert negative self-talk to positive self-talk pregame and in-game, draft their own “feel-good” statement.
  • Whiteboard bad and good body language, practice strong body language and discuss when it is needed as well as who it impacts, other than themselves.
  • Learn about the benefits of breathing, when and how to do it effectively.

Mental Performance 2
Students will be introduced to three critical mental skills to improve performance: Visualization, Locking In, and Confidence

  • Learn the concept of visualizing in-game situations, the power of these “mental reps” and when and how to do it.
  • Write their own “visualization script” to utilize any time.
  • Understand the power of internal and external distractions and tools to avoid allowing those distractions to create a loss of in-game focus.
  • Learn the concept of visualizing in-game situations, the power of these “mental reps” and when and how to do it, and write their own “visualization script” to utilize any time.

Sportsmanship
In this interactive session in which the student-athletes themselves develop Sportsmanship Standards for:

  • Players
  • Parents / Fans
  • Coaches

Student-athletes develop -and agree on -  a series of specific Standards for players, coaches, and parents, covering both in-game competition and social media dynamics.

Students define specific Actions (do’s and don’ts) that relate to each Standard;  actions that tie to respect for the game and  better relationships with referees, teammates, and opponents.

Here's the difference: "Those who attended had nothing but positive comments. They enjoyed the interactive videos that coincided with the various topics. The material and content was current and aligned to what we try to instill in our players, and what I personally needed to succeed as a college baseball player years ago, and even in business today."

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Education Stadium is avidly focused on the long road - the process of building our young student-athletes' skills for the rest of their lives.

WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY

“The girls were exposed to new ways to effectively communicate and motivate each other while striving toward a team goal of making your teammates better. We saw many of our more introverted players accept new roles by becoming more vocal or simply leading more by example after we attended. Identifying goals, both personal and team, became more of a focus for our players.”
Al Michalowski
Al Michaloski, Wildcats travel softball coach.
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Changing the game of youth and high school sports. Leadership and life skills for our young people

Let's take our student-athletes - and our teams - to the next level: purposeful training on real-life skills for the long haul.

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Building Better. Better players, better teammates, better coaches, better people.

Our learning experiences are fun, engaging, collaborative, and focused on laying the foundation for the future - practical and critical personal behaviors and skills.

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