{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Feeaf7f93-f13a-4cd2-8d96-cf287685de7e","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"Showing Leadership and Adapting to Change \u2013 Work In Sports Podcast\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/eeaf7f93-f13a-4cd2-8d96-cf287685de7e\"></iframe>","title":"Showing Leadership and Adapting to Change \u2013 Work In Sports Podcast","description":"Hey everybody, I\u2019m Brian Clapp, VP of Content and Engaged Learning at <a href=\"http://WorkInSports.com\">WorkInSports.com</a> and this is the Work In Sports podcast\u2026Three straight days of sunny weather and I\u2019m feeling good. We\u2019ve been mid-70s and bright sun the last three days, which is perfect. And weather definitely affects my mood, so expect some positivity today!If you haven\u2019t listened to <a href=\"https://www.workinsports.com/blog/ari-kaplan-baseball-analytics-pioneer-work-in-sports-podcast/\">last week\u2019s podcast with Ari Kaplan</a>, you need to. Seriously, it\u2019s a long episode, but it didn\u2019t feel it.\u00a0 Ari is one of the OG\u2019s of <a href=\"https://www.sportsmanagementworldwide.com/courses/baseball-analytics\">baseball analytics</a> and has some great, great stories. Plus, he shares how to break into the world of sports analytics, and much more.\u00a0As I said, long episode but worth it -- there are some episodes, just being honest, that feel like they drag or take a long time to get to grandma\u2019s house. Ari, man, loved this interview.<a href=\"https://www.workinsports.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/qa_cover.png\"></a>Coming up on Wednesday is <a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/averee-dovsek-11300a187/\">Averee Dovsek </a>-- Averee is on the women\u2019s golf team at Hofstra, so we talk a good deal about being a student-athlete at this time. AND we discuss interning and gaining experience as a student-athlete- it\u2019s unique being an athlete, your time is allocated to training traveling competing\u2026 so many struggle to gain career experience.\u00a0Averee is the exception - she\u2019s done internships at the Golf Channel and PGA Tour Radio - and we talk about what she's learned, how she\u2019s focusing on her career, and managing her time.\u00a0Really great stuff coming up later this week.\u00a0\u00a0As for today\u2026The sports career-focused question comes in from Josh in Indiana -\u00a0\u201cHey Brian, I\u2019ve heard a lot of people on your podcast say they look to hire people who are leaders or have leadership potential. Two-part question -- how do I develop leadership skills, and how do I show them off in the applicant process?\u201dJosh -- good stuff.\u00a0It\u2019s true, for a long time I\u2019ve been saying the main attributes people need to be successful in any industry is to be coachable, curious and competitive. They are all pretty self-explanatory, but being coachable means you listen well, take to teaching, can be molded, being competitive means you will work hard work extra, want to be the best, learn new skills, look for an edge and being curious means you are a constant learrner, always curious and always strviing for more.But we really need to add to that list. In these times, and in the development of the new normal, we need to stress adaptability and leadership.\u00a0Let\u2019s talk a minute about adaptability before we get into leadership.\u00a0I have spoken to hundreds of people over this quarantine, and I\u2019d say they can be broken into two groups.\u00a01: Those who freak out. The sky is falling, I will lose my job, I\u2019m going to get the virus, the economy will crash, we\u2019ll be in a depression, I\u2019m in a depression.\u00a0Everything is panic and overwhelming.\u00a02: Those who are seeing the problem, analyzing it, and figuring out how to adjust and adapt. They are looking for opportunities, taking some of this in stride, adjusting to virtual meetings, learning, and saying to themselves, I may get this thing\u2026 but I\u2019ll beat it if I do.\u00a0Now, I\u2019m not being naive here -- there are people at massive risk for this virus and I am not advocating taking it on face first -- I\u2019m just pointing out that there are some who adapt, and there are others who get overwhelmed.\u00a0I know someone who is an at-risk case, she has every reason to fear coronavirus, but she\u2019s not letting it overwhelm her. She\u2019s quarantining, she\u2019s adjusting to zoom life, she\u2019s working remote and she\u2019s hell-bent on proving her continued value to her company. She\u2019s not wallowing, she\u2019s adapting.\u00a0That adaptability is important now, and forever moving forward.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/e18cec64-26c3-475d-980f-2dfaa5bf6404/wispod-cover.png"}