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Explore Strive's leadership resources designed to help educators, coaches, and program leaders create meaningful experiences for young people. Find workshops, activities, training materials, and tools that make leadership development easier to bring into your classroom, team, or community.

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GOALS ARE IMPORTANT, COACHES CAN HELP ACHIEVE THEM

“Elite athletes are goal-setting machines, and the habit of continual goal setting is a primary reason they climb the ladder to the elite level.” Read the full original article from Human

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HOW TO FOCUS: 4 PROVEN TRICKS TO IMPROVE CONCENTRATION

ver feel like you have the attention span of a fruit fly? These distraction-fighting techniques by Camille Noe Pagán for the Huffington Post will help you snap to. Read the full

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WHAT IS RESILIENCE?

“Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or even significant sources of stress — such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems, or

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TALENT GETS YOU NOTICED, CHARACTER GETS YOU RECRUITED

his must-read blog by James Leath, Head of Leadership at IMG Academy in Brandenton, FL, goes into detail about the “intangibles” that recruiters look for in a future college athlete.

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TRUE LEADERS HAVE GRIT

Dr. Angela Duckworth, associate professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, has created a self-assessment for the incoming freshman at West Point that is used to estimate how “gritty”

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10 CRITICAL COMPETENCIES FOR LEADERSHIP

Most of what you read about leadership pertains to the workplace, but the underlying competencies of a great leader in the office are very closely aligned with those required to

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12 THINGS YOU CAN DO STARTING TODAY TO BE A BETTER LEADER

“Some believe certain people are born leaders. Others think an individual can learn to be a leader. Regardless of how you may feel you obtained your leadership skills, there are

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WHY I STRIVE – ANDREA VALENTINE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

I strive because “how” we get things done matters. How we communicate. How we react. How we compete. How we win. How we lead. It all matters. In today’s world

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THE 5 SKILLS THAT INNOVATIVE LEADERS HAVE IN COMMON – HBR

Katherine Graham-Leviss writes for the Harvard Business Review about the difficulty of cultivating innovation as a quality in leaders and organizations as a whole. Leadership development needs to put a

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CHARACTER-DRIVEN LEADERSHIP – FORBES

While most of us whole-heartedly endorse character as critical to leadership, and most of us require it in the leaders we work for and seek out, few of us consciously

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