Tips for the Team Leader
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As a team leader, you have, or will have, the opportunity to prevent hazing and promote healthy relationships among your team members.
Follow these 5 steps to score a win for you and your team:
Get Knowledge
Build on this course by knowing your school’s policy and your state’s laws that cover hazing. Research more about what hazing looks and sounds like.
Teach the Team
You’re in a unique position to correct misconceptions of what hazing is and isn’t, so share your knowledge by taking a positive approach to team building.
Stick to Support
Build relationships with the coaches, support staff, and administration to create a web of positivity and support against questionable behaviors/activities.
Intelligent Inclusion
Make it a point to include all team members in team duties and other opportunities you may have power over. This creates an atmosphere of tolerance and inclusion, not division.
Stay Vigilant
Just because hazing hasn’t happened yet, doesn’t mean it won’t happen in the future. It thrives in secrecy and can often occur during off field or pre-season events.
Hazing is a cycle of abuse and it is often those who were hazed in the past who haze others the next year.