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Commitment to Leadership: Respect, Responsibility and Performance
ASPIRE student-athlete success in sport and in the classroom depends on every student-athlete striving to be a leader in three critical areas:
- Respect – the way we communicate caring about others and value the worth of another as a human being
- Responsibility – the extent to which we accept responsibility and hold ourselves accountable in fulfilling our sporting and academic assignments
- Performance – the way we interact with others and respond to their needs
Each day, ASPIRE student-athletes (and ASPIRE staff members) are asked to measure themselves in these three areas using the scale of 5 for a leader, 4 for a contributor, 3 for a participant, 2 for an observer and 1 for a detractor. In this way, every student-athlete can assess his own behavior to determine if he is moving towards being an ASPIRE Leader. At times, the ASPIRE student-athlete is required to lead and at other times to be a contributor or a participant. However, it is always important that each member of the ASPIRE Academy community not be a detractor. ASPIRE believes that leadership in these areas is so important, that every student-athlete’s report card includes three leadership grades -- responsibility, performance and respect -- based on the following scale:
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LEVELS OF RESPONSIBILITY
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LEVELS OF PERFORMANCE |
LEVELS OF RESPECT
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LEADER
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5
Clarifies his/her role in being accountable in life plus models and teaches a step-by-step process of being responsible.
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5
Physical endurance, help others resolve problems and achieve goals. Ability to develop programs to achieve objectives.
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5
Communicate very deep concern and caring for the person’s worth as a human. Commit to enabling the other person’s growth.
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CONTRIBUTOR
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4
Clarifies her/his role in situations plus seeks opportunities to be responsible/ accountable.
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4
Physical intensity, able to personalize problems and goals of others. Ability to define objectives in operational terms.
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4
Communicate deep caring and concern for the other person. The person now feels free to open up and experience being valued as an individual.
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PARTICIPANT
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3
Clarifies his/her role in being responsible /accountable in a situation (clear understanding of a role).
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3
Physical adaptability, responding to experience of others. Able to account for relations between people and/or things.
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3
Expression of minimal acknowledgment of regard or concern for the person’s feelings, experience or potential.
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OBSERVER
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2
Assumes responsibility/ accountability “because I’m stuck with it.”
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2
Barely able to make it through the day, attentive to others. Able to identify relations between people and/or things.
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2
Little respect for feelings, experience and potential of other person.
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DETRACTOR
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1
Avoids becoming responsible/accountable ("Here it comes, there I go”).
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1
Unable to make it through the day, inattentive to others. Able to identify the labels attached to people and things.
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1
Negative regard. Lack of respect, hurting someone’s feelings.
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