Leadership Is Observable

“Be a leader” is vague enough to be useless. Leadership in a team is a set of visible responsibilities: prepare, clarify, follow up, and raise a concern through the right channel. A shot-caller, captain, coach, analyst, and event lead may share those jobs.

Receive: Separate Fast Calls from Team Care

One student can hold more than one role. That is not automatically a problem. The problem begins when no one knows who handles a decision, or when a title becomes permission to ignore feedback.

Process: Turn a Label into Evidence

“Jordan is a good leader” is a claim. What would make it evidence? Maybe Jordan posts the practice plan, asks quieter teammates for observations, or records a specific next step after review. List two actions you could actually observe.

Practice: Repair the Leadership Sentence

Replace vague statements with accountable ones.

• “Everyone needs to communicate better.”
• “The captain should fix it.”

Use this pattern: We noticed ___. The next action is ___. The person checking it is ___.

Apply: Write a Role Agreement

Create a short agreement for a four-person classroom event team. Give each role one pre-event duty, one during-event duty, and one after-event duty. Include one escalation boundary: which situation must go to an adult or event lead rather than peer debate?

Correct: Check for Gaps and Pileups

Trade agreements. Identify one duty with no owner and one person with too many critical duties. Revise the agreement. A role chart that works only if nobody is absent is not a plan; it is optimism.

Prove: Exit Evidence

Submit the revised role agreement and a short note explaining one accountability choice.