My experience as a leader...

I'm pretty serious about my grades, and being the captain of a football team in California I had to get a group of guys to be the same. My job as a leader, as a captain was to get my brothers to pull up their grades because a couple of guys were ineligible, and that's no way to win football games when you're best guys can't play because of their grades. I had to be more authoritative, being passive they wouldn't listen so this meant mandatory library sessions or we ran or they could practice, and if they couldn't practice they couldn't play. In the end the time we spent helped us as a team and got they guys who were ineligible back on track to play.