This unit reframes leadership as something a coach practices rather than a rank they hold. It begins with humility as accuracy, the sober self-knowledge that lets a leader see their own gaps and build a team around them, moves through the choice to go first and put yourself between danger and your people, and lands on the relational habits that cultivate joy and trust. Woven throughout is the model of Christ, the good shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep, reminding coaches that the best leadership is measured less by trophies than by character it forms in others. 

Unit Five – Leadership
 
Lesson One – The Gift of Knowing What You Are Not
This article reframes humility not as self-deprecation but as accuracy, the sober, clear-eyed self-assessment Paul calls for in Romans 12:3. Because blind spots are by definition the things we can't see, self-knowledge almost always arrives through someone else, and God's ordinary provision for a gap isn't a personality transplant but a person. Knowing what you are not, it turns out, is the first step of building a team.

Lesson Two – Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe
This twelve minute TED talk argues that leadership is not a rank but a choice you make to put yourself at risk for the people in your care. Sinek contrasts organizations where people feel protected by their leaders with those where people spend their energy protecting themselves from each other. For coaches, it is a compelling secular case for something Jesus taught about shepherds long before anyone studied it.
 
Lesson Three – Leading like Christ: A Coach's Guide to RARE Leadership
An ordinary coach impacts an athlete's game. It takes a RARE coach to transform an athlete's life, and the secret of great coaching is great leadership. Drawing on Marcus Warner and Jim Wilder's RARE Leadership, this article walks coaches through four uncommon habits, Remain relational, Act like yourself, Return to joy, and Endure hardship well, that cultivate joy, build trust, and increase engagement. Leadership is a skill to be trained like any other, and even small progress can be the difference between a culture of joy and a culture of fear.