What leadership characteristics are important to become an athletic director and how do I obtain them?

Running Head : WHAT LEADERSHIP CHARACTERISTICS ARE IMPORTANT TO BECOME AN ATHLETIC DIRECTOR

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Table of Contents

Title page . 1

Table of contents .2

1 .0 Introduction . 3

2 .0 Literature Review . 3

2 .1 Leadership Characteristics . 3

2 .2 Leadership Characteristics for Athletics Director . 6

2 .3 Working as an Athletic Director . 8

3 .0 How to Obtain Important Leadership Qualities . 10

3 .1 Self

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3 .2 Ways to learn and improve the leadership characteristics . 11

4 .0 Summary and Conclusions . 12

5 .0 References . 13

Good Leadership Characteristics

1 .0 Introduction

Leadership is generally described as process of influence that causes an effect to those who follow it . On the other hand it should be noted that the ability of a leader to be influential relies on his or her ability to exercise power . Leadership therefore is the aptitude or authority to direct other people towards achieving an objective . The common leaders include chief executive officers and top management and board of directors . From these definitions it is very obvious that power and leadership are intimately related and hence it is very important to understand the relationship . As a sports director , one has to exercise power and influence working as the athletics administrator

Power is defined as the capability to gathering together the human resources to get some task done and this usually have an effect on the members of the organization in several aspects including...