5 Amazing Leadership Lessons You Can Learn From Volleyball

Volleyball is an exciting sport to play and have fun with friends and family. As unusual as it may sound, you also acquire some vital leadership skills while participating in the sport. While these are the main attractions of playing the game, watching the sport is also one exciting way to pass the time.

The lesson you eventually gain from participating in the sport ultimately makes you an effective team player and a leader in the workplace. We’ve outlined some of these in detail in the article below.

Communicating in a Helpful Way

Hardly would a team triumph without adequately communicating in this game. Even if you’ve got a shy personality, the lure of winning would be more than adequate to push you into talking and coordinating gameplay activities alongside your fellow teammates.

Before you know it, you’d be coordinating front-row hitters into swinging towards vacant positions or letting a blocker know they should brace for a hard hit instead of a tip (at times, this particular action could help in distracting the other team). As you only get 3 chances at tipping the ball over, it’s dead essential you learned how to communicate with whoever has the ball at any instant.

It’s especially annoying when your team loses points because no one attends to the ball (as everyone is busy thinking the other player would get it) due to a lack of communication. When you all converse more, you get to experience better gameplay.

Making Quick Strategic Decisions

With a lot potentially happening within a split second, volleyball is a pretty fast-paced game. For instance, to ensure optimum gameplay in passing, team members must ensure their crouching position is optimized for nice pass delivery, i.e. they must stretch their arms just a bit outwards – to minimize the chances of the ball slipping through and must stand on the tips of their toes also.

This is necessary because if team members had to constantly switch from a straight standing position to a passing one, they’d have already wasted some time, as little as it might seem.

It’s pretty much a similar situation when it comes to hitting. There’s a limited interval to hit the ball when you jump up. That said, it’s crucial you decide very early on where you’d be directing the ball – either toward another teammate or over the line – before making the jump.

To an extent, the players who act in the setter role have a greater percentage of the responsibilities. They have to coordinate…