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Women in World

Athletics Seminar

12th – 15th April 2013

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Welcome

Master of Ceremonies

Wendy Haxell

Welcome from European

Athletics

Peter Stafford

My Leadership Journey

Friday 12th April 2013

Christine E. Fisher

Chief Executive

President of Alumni

Coach and Mentor

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My Leadership Journey

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What have been the ingredients?

• Knowledge

• Skills

• Qualifications

• Ambition

Real icing on the cake?

• Learning to manage myself

My Leadership Journey

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When did the Journey start?

• When I was born?

• Family conditioning?

• Cultural conditioning?

Basic driver

• Expectations – my Father

• “You can do better”, “What next?”

My Leadership Journey

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What were the results?

• First female player and captain of the Preparatory

School sports team

• First team hockey, squash, tennis, golf and athletics

team at my grammar school

• Northern Ireland and Irish representatives

• First family member to attend University

• Sports leadership?

My Leadership Journey

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How was this achieved?

• Focus

• Discipline

• Desire for improvement

• Directness

• Driven

• Judgemental

My Leadership Journey

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What happened then?

• Immigration

• University

• Foreign language

• Financial pressures

• Huge expectations – mine, my family,

University

My Leadership Journey

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What were the results?

• Qualified coach – tennis and squash

• BSc Honours degree – 2:1 Physical

Education, Sports Science and Recreation

Management

• 1st team hockey and English Universities

• More rounded individual ….to a point

• Leadership yet?

My Leadership Journey

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How was this achieved?

You can guess…..

• Focus

• Discipline

• Desire for improvement

• Directness

• Driven

• Judgemental

My Leadership Journey

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What happened then?

• Home – unemployed

• Initiative – first job Peterborough

• Focus

• Discipline

• Desire for improvement

• Directness

• Driven

My Leadership Journey

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Real start of my leadership journey?

• 1981

• Sports Management

• Brand new leisure centre

• Created systems, procedures, programmes

• Developed relationships – staff, parents, students,

public, hirers

• Full apprenticeship

• Management with leadership

My Leadership Journey

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Senior management roles (bit of leadership)

• Sunderland – 14 leisure centres, then business

improvement across Council

• Dacorum – variety of roles

Leadership (Command and Control)

• North West Leicestershire

Coaching Leadership

• NOW!!!

My Leadership Journey

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Who do I engage with?

• Elected members

• Staff

• Partners

• Agencies

• Businesses

• Community/voluntary

• Higher/Further education

• Government

My Leadership Journey

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How has this been achieved?

Guess…..

• Focus

• Discipline

• Desire for improvement

• Directness

• Driven

• Judgemental

………..or is it something else?

My Leadership Journey

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What have been the ingredients?

• Knowledge – learning from others

• Skills – developing, testing and learning

• Qualifications – continuous learning

• Ambition – dissatisfied with current and/or

expecting can do better

• “You can do better”, “What next?”

Real icing on the cake?

• Learning to manage myself

My Leadership Journey

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My leadership recipe

• Building rapport

• Understanding drivers/agenda

• Interpreting behaviour

• Recognising people’s values

• Patterns of behaviour

• Judgement – lead, manage or coach

• Creativity, solution finder

• Resilience

• Having a sense of humour

My Leadership Journey

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What is my view of leadership?

• Nurturing and supporting the development of

potential

• In others

• In self

• Achieving the best we can be

• No-one is better than all of us

My Leadership Journey

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What is the real difference with leadership?

• Awareness of self

• Be interested – knowledge/information

• Respect others as equal – judgement will be

greater

• Know when to leave alone, know when to

stand your ground

My Leadership Journey

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Tips for developing as a leader?

• Have an expectation

• Understand yourself

• Develop yourself

• This will release the best of you to release

the best of others

My Leadership Journey

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My question of you:

Why wouldn’t you want to be a leader?