If you were called to be a leader, don’t let the disability stop you. It could be a stutter or heart disease or a mental disorder. She was good at the sport and she was willing to live with the risks. Hannah had a pretty debilitating ailment for an athlete. Your work matters.īe willing to impact one person. If you touch one person in your leadership position, they matter. They mattered.ĭo you get discouraged when your team dwindles or there doesn’t seem to be much of an impact? Know that your work matters.
Even if you were only speaking or teaching or leading one person. He felt like coaching a team of one wouldn’t be worth it. When Coach Harrison discovered there was only one runner willing to try out for the cross country team, he was disappointed. They often know this won’t be a permanent thing but a temporary sacrifice. Great leaders are willing to step up and go the extra mile when required. Will you be willing to step up and go the extra mile? You will be called upon to do things outside of your title and role. Not because he wanted to but because he was a leader who went the extra mile when needed. They needed someone to coach and he was there. Uh oh!īecause of the loss of students and faculty, principal Brooks asked Coach Harrison to step in to coach the cross country team. It also meant teachers and faculty were going to leave. This meant the school was going to lose a large portion of the student body. A plant was closing down and people were moving away. The city where Overcomer is set in lost a major manufacturer. Don’t hold back your positive feelings about your team. They long to be told how good they’re doing or how proud of them you are. You may think it is superficial or fluff but it is not. Great leaders know they have to share how proud they are of their team with their team. He let them know how proud of them he was and how thankful he was to be their coach. They had played a great game and he was proud of them.Ĭoach Harrison shared his pride with his team. Yet, in Coach Harrison’s eyes, the boys weren’t losers. Tell your team you’re proud of them:ĭespite the clear plan, Coach Harrison’s team lost the championship game. To be effective, we have to make sure the plans we lay out are clear and understandable by our teams. We can give extraneous details that won’t help communicate the plan. When sharing our plans for our organization, we can easily muddy the plan. The team knew what to do.Īfter the talk, the team went out and executed the plan. A plan he hoped would win the championship. He shared a plan that would keep the pressure on the visiting team. That’s two 3-point shots to tie the game.Ĭoach Harrison pulled his team together. There were seconds remaining and the team was down 6 points. Give a clear plan:Ĭoach Harrison gave the basketball team at Brookshire Christian a pep talk at the last game of their season.
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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Overcomer The Movie 1. One with a clear message you won’t forget when you walk away from the theater.Īlong with the clear, faith-based message of Overcomer, you won’t walk away without taking away multiple leadership lessons. With these challenges in front of him, Coach Harrison has his work cut out for him.
Rather, there is one young girl named Hannah Scott (Aryn Wright-Thompson) who wants to try out. He is then recruited by principal Olivia Brooks (Priscilla Shirer) to take over the cross country team.Ĭoach Harrison is up for a huge challenge as he discovers there’s not a cross country team at the school. Overcomer tells the story of Coach John Harrison (Alex Kendrick) as his basketball program shuts down at Brookshire Christian School. Passing on leadership lessons from movies because a movie is easier to remember than a seminar or leadership conference. This is also one of the reasons I created the Reel Leadership series. They began creating movies with their church, Sherwood Baptist Church because they discovered many people said a movie leaves a more lasting impact than a church sermon. Their faith-based approach to movie making is astonishing. Since they’ve begun working on movies, the Kendrick brothers have released multiple films including War Room, Courageous, Fireproof, and Facing The Giants. They produce movies under the company of Kendrick Brothers Productions. Overcomer is the latest film from the Kendrick brothers, Alex and Stephen.