Abstract
The paper includes the information from a questionnaire in graduates of a sports higher educational institution based on which the leader value presence was evaluated in them. One of the guides on leadership skills’ development states that leaders cannot be prepared like instant coffee. Leadership qualities development is a lengthy process. The extensive basis for such qualities is formed with education focused on humanities; applying such knowledge in practice should follow further. The practice would allow to acquire the worldly wisdom, experience, sensitivity, determination, intuition, keenness, emotionality, passion for leadership altogether making the person a leader. The latter should be able to see the visions of the desired future and make them attractive for their alumni (students) and in such future, they should see themselves cheerful, healthy, with ideally developed physical and personal qualities, experienced in sports and using the said qualities for attaining their life and professional goals. Sports-teaching leaders should inspire and energize with their ideas, lead the students to form the required level of personality in students. All points mentioned in the conclusion give grounds to suppose that the key competencies for a modern sports teacher should be, alongside with others, the ones requiring leadership skills. The issue of leadership potential’s development in the modern context is explained in details. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6p498
Highlights
Based on the above-said, we can assume that the graduates of the sports higher educational institution name a number of qualities characteristic for a competitive leadership model but not the cooperative leadership model’s qualities (for which primarily the social community and organization development, successfulness in social and emotional criteria, domination of social intellect (Bendas, http://www.elitarium.ru/2013/07/27/ mjdeli_povedenija_lideru.html, 2013) as the priority leadership skills
The graduates answered the question which leadership qualities were formed in them to a sufficient extent in the course of study as follows: 33.75% respondents admitted that the ability to persuade and inspire was formed in them; 32.5% respondents said that the ability to take over the initiative was formed in them. 65% respondents find themselves to be tactful enough in professional behavior; more than the half graduates tend to think that they have communicative competency (52.5%)
Summarizing the above-said data, we can make a note of behavioral mindsets and personal qualities in graduates of the sports higher educational institution showing their tendency to independence and probably leadership
Summary
Economic, political and cultural transformations inherent to the today’s society have shifted the focus from the collective, public, state to the individual initiative, an individual’s activity, self-organization and self-regulation of all social life’s actors.In the society developing according to democratic principles, the leadership qualities alongside with competitiveness manifesting in the market economy’s conditions act as a powerful and efficient tool of social development and progress (Lesina, 2002).The demand for leaders and leadership as a mechanism of increasing the efficiency of social entities’ life sustenance exists virtually in all fields of the Russian society: economics, politics, science, education, culture and sports.The above-mentioned conditions of the modern social development set new milestones for professional sports education, too, demonstrating the demand for a sports teacher of a new type who is able to teach and to assist to sound development of the rising generation.Without doubt, leadership skills are necessary for accomplishing the developing education ideas. The demand for leaders and leadership as a mechanism of increasing the efficiency of social entities’ life sustenance exists virtually in all fields of the Russian society: economics, politics, science, education, culture and sports. According to (Danilyuk, 2010 & Kubarkova, http://www.emissia.org/offline/2012/1772.htm, 2012), leader teachers should have an increased individual development level and organizational skills, and be able to generate new ideas and approaches, create new teaching techniques, help accomplish the students’ inner potential, initiate their personalities’ development. The teachers of higher education institutions have realized the importance of developing leadership skills in students, but this problem is frequently not solved by the educational contents accomplished and the graduates do not acquire the readiness to use such skills
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