Leadership Level 2 - Team Leadership

Learning Objective

Apply Level 1's foundation to real FRC team leadership: coach individual team members using Situational Leadership (adjusting your approach for a first-year vs. a veteran), define sub-team roles using a real team-organization model (FIRST's own guide or a published team handbook), facilitate productive meetings and mediate conflicts, and coordinate a specific role -- like pit crew or drive team communication -- during a competition, where leadership looks nothing like a weekly team meeting. This level is self-guided and typically takes a couple of months; completing it means you can lead most of the day-to-day team coordination the team needs.

Prerequisites

• Leadership Level 1 - Personal Leadership
• Project Management Level 1 - Personal Organization

Primary Resources

• Situational Leadership (Hersey-Blanchard): overview
• FIRST: How To Organize a Team
• FIRSTWiki: Pit Crew

Tasks

1. Team Development

   • Lead team building activities
   • Coach individual team members
     • Adjust your coaching approach to a member's experience level (Situational Leadership's telling/selling/participating/delegating styles)
   • Set team goals and expectations
   • Foster positive team culture
   • Apply a real team-organization model (e.g. FIRST's team-organization guide or a published team handbook) to define sub-team roles

2. Meeting Leadership

   • Plan and facilitate meetings
   • Guide productive discussions
   • Document and track action items
   • Follow up on commitments

3. Conflict Management

   • Identify sources of conflict
   • Mediate team disagreements
   • Find win-win solutions
   • Build team consensus

4. Team Performance

   • Monitor team progress
   • Provide team feedback
   • Celebrate team successes
   • Address performance issues
   • Coordinate a specific role (e.g. pit crew or drive team communication) during a competition or mock event

Level 2 Completion Requirements

• Successfully lead a subteam or team-building initiative
• Facilitate at least one team meeting with documented action items and follow-up
• Mediate a real team conflict to a resolution
• Coordinate a specific team role during a competition or mock event

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