I found it. The best icebreaker & team builder ?? Captains Part 1 of 4

If you’ve followed me for a while, you know I am huge on starting practices with energy builders that build team comradery.

​​​​​​​And recently I’ve been fascinated by diving into studying the concept of leadership and captains on teams.

So what could be better than developing your leaders while playing games?

When I first met Adam Bradley a few years ago, he was in the process of developing a curriculum that did just that. The cool thing is that he partnered with an expert company on games, Game On to ‘gamify’ the experience, because we know lecturing kids on leadership isn’t a sticky way for them to learn, getting them involved and participating in activities/games is.

I don’t endorse many products, but the biggest no-brainer of a product I believe in is the curriculum Adam and his team have developed at Lead ‘Em Up. In talking with Adam, I wanted to help spread the word, so he offered a discount for Winning Youth Coaching followers – just enter discount code ‘wyccoaches’ and save 10% off at checkout at leademup.com.

This post starts a 4 part series on captains & leadership, inspired by my friend James Leath’s post about the book The Captain Class. (read that post here).

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Here’s the plan for this series:

1 – Captain training – Lead Em UP

2 – The Captain Class

3 – Anatomy of a Teammate – leadership video by Coach Patrick Murphy

4 – Emerging leader groups

​​​​​​​I hope you don’t find this post ‘salesy’, I just wanted to share one of the best coaching tools I have found. I look forward to diving into the a-ha moments I have been having reading through The Captain Class.