We have had a number of onry 4-H steers, and which varied from the animal trying to charge, to refusing to lead properly and dragging or dancing with the kid all over the place.
We tried the "nose pliers" or "nose tongs"
( think I prefer the pliers over the tongs).We would put the halter on, and the pliers in the nose and a second lead rope from the pliers. Worked with almost all the critters. If they take off and start to drag the kid, they dropped the main halter and pulled the nose pliers.
The real big cranky ones sometimes we had 2 kids on either side holding a halter lead and another person to the side with the pliers lead. As long as they went along nicely, no problems, if they got rank, it usually worked pretty good as a braking system. Of course as always care must be taken the animal doesn't throw itself on one of the individuals leading it.
Some of the critters hurt their nose a bit, but we decided better their nose than a kid getting drug all over stepped on and getting hurt.
When the animal lead nicely they were scratched, brushed and rewarded. When they took off like a freight train, the nose pliers did their job in punishment.
Sometimes it took lots of sweat, tears and prayers, but there was only one heifer that the pliers didn't work on, she would fight harder with them in place than without.
We ended up tying her almost daily to a telephone pole on a long rope till she quite fighting.
These were cattle that came in off the range and had seen very few people, so some of them were pretty wild.
It would be ideal if the cattle had been pasture raised from birth and calm, but this was not the case.
I find nose pliers handy for helping out if one has to give needles, breaking heifers to milk that are being rank, etc
They are not a cure all, but when other things fail, we try the nose pliers.
Nite Hawk