Leaders Meet: People Development

Performance in Practice – Arrival & Networking

Welcome & Scene Setting

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We’ve got a lot planned – case studies, group work, skills practice, some drinks, and a game. So we’ll take stock for 10mins so we can set the scene for the day and define a plan and some aims to ensure we get the most out of the hours ahead.   

Interactive Roundtable Discussion

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To start the afternoon, and to warm up the brains and mouths, we’ll be setting a couple of questions to each table to discuss and share views on at the top of the afternoon. They’ll be in relation to the theme of the day, and the aim is that it acts as an ice breaker and conversation starter to get us in the correct frame of mind for the topic at hand. 

EPP – How you Lead, and Influence Others 

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The aim of this Performance in Practice, in partnership with Elite Performance Partners (EPP), is to explore the latest innovation and practical skills needed as performance environments evolve, through partner and performance expert stimulus, breakout discussion and practical skills development. 

In this section of the afternoon, EPP will examine and share world class insights on thinking around how you lead, the relationships you build, and the way you interact with and influence others.  This element of leadership is often referred to as followership – how you bring others on a journey with you.  

Here are a few areas that EPP will touch upon in this section:  

• How to ensure you’re not only thinking about how to achieve strategically in a new role, but also how to focus on how you will show up as a leader, how you will build relationships, and who you are looking to influence.   
• A deep dive into their model that not only helps people land well in their roles, or develop so they are ready to continue to progress. This is done through an understanding of strengths and areas for development – where leaders currently over index, and where leaders might need to do more work or bring in others with complementary skills 
• Understanding the skills often referred to as ‘soft’ – how you lead, how you form relationships, and your character – aka, how you show up.  We prefer to call them human skills because they are actually the hardest to build, but can be developed with work 
• A focus on how you build relationships, the leadership style you adopt, the way you form relationships, and communicate with different people 

Break

Skills Session – Relationship Building

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In the second part of the afternoon, we’ll be combining coaching and case-studies from inside and outside the world of sport, to help enable participants to make a sustained shift in their impact and effectiveness as leaders. 

The particular topic we’ll be focusing on is Relationship Building. We’ll take a deep dive into the skills you need to ensure you are creating a successful transition, whether that be a change within your role now, a change to a new role, or even a move to a new organisation. If you’re in a period of change, fear not, these skills are relevant and powerful at any stage of your career, and we’ll be exploring topics such as trust, building rapport, creating the right impression, improving our listening skills, and how to communicate with purpose.  

Final Reflections and Action Planning

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We’ll finish this part of the day by reflecting on the learnings shared by the speakers and your peers in the room alike. We’ll ensure that these insights aren’t lost, and can be applied and integrated into our organisations over the coming days and weeks ahead.

Keiser Networking Drinks + Texas Rangers vs. St. Louis Cardinals

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We’ll finish the day with some drinks courtesy of our partners Keiser, where you’ll have the opportunity to connect and re-connect with peers and friends at the end of the afternoon and into the evening for those of you who wish to stick around. We hope you do!  

And that’s not all, we’re offering you the opportunity, thanks to our hosts the Texas Rangers and their partners Abilene Christian University, to host you for the Rangers’ game that evening vs. St. Louis Cardinals. Go Rangers! 

Women’s Sport Breakfast in Partnership with Keiser

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The Women’s Sport Breakfast in partnership with Keiser will bring together high-performance practitioners who are passionate about growing women’s sport and access for women in sport, for an opportunity to connect and have impactful conversations before heading into the day’s agenda.

Through a facilitated Q&A, the breakfast will explore some of the issues that affect female individuals within high performance sport, that have been regularly addressed and discussed through our newly formed Women’s High Performance Sport Community Group – an action orientated space for those working in high performance, formed to help them learn, build relationships, solve common problems and share those learnings with the wider performance community.

Welcome & Action Planning

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We’ll set the scene for the day and set ourselves a plan and some aims to ensure we get the most out of the hours ahead.   

Session 1: Developing a Learning Culture

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• Teaching: the process of imparting knowledge and instruction. 
• Learning: the acquisition of knowledge, behaviours, skills. 
• What do you want to teach and what do you want others to learn? 

Interactive Roundtables: Developing a Learning Culture

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This is an opportunity to discuss the previous session with your peers in the room. We’ll also provide guidance and suggested areas of focus around the theme of learning environments.  

This session will be followed by a break.

Session 2: Developing Healthier and Stronger Minds

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• Psychology and Purpose: Creating a Thriving Team Environment 
• Enhancing staff focus on mental health and mental performance 
• Exploring why and how healthier and stronger minds perform better, recover faster, and are less susceptible to injury 

EPIC Risk Management Working Lunch

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The Working Lunch is a one-hour roundtable discussion in partnership with EPIC Risk Management for 10-15 invited attendees, where we’ll spend some time in small groups, and listening to a quick Q&A to ignite some thought, around the theme of how external factors can negatively impact your athletes’ physical and mental performance and wellness.

We’ll facilitate the discussion, and ensure it’s an interactive and informative hour, which will give you the opportunity to engage and create connections with a select group of peers across the high performance space.

Where: Private Meeting Room at the Globe Life Field, Arlington

What: A roundtable discussion, including a Q&A with former Texas Ranger Pitcher, Ryan Tatusko, with lunch included, focusing on a discussion around how to handle and manage external factors that may be negatively affecting your athletes’ physical and mental performance and wellness.

Who: 10 – 15 invite only, attendees from the event – all who have a mutual interest/knowledge in this topic

Session 3: Elevating Performance Through Psychological Health & Safety

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• Introduction to psychological health and safety and why it should be a core consideration for organisations that want to develop high performing people.
• Go Beyond Culture: embedding wellbeing into an organisational structure.What is key to get right? What kind of strategies are creating the most impact in environments?
• Prevention vs. Reaction: what does that look like in the TaskUs environment?
• Impact: what has the impact been on the above in relation to how employees at TaskUs have developed / perform in their work?

Interactive Roundtables: How Mental Performance Can Aid Holistic Development?

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This is another opportunity to discuss the previous session with your peers. We’ll once again provide you with some advice and structure to explore the relationship between healthy and stronger minds on development.

Session 4: Translating Values into Development

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Alongside the Texas Rangers’ Dayton Moore we’ll be exploring how values translate into development, and development into successful organisations, as well as establishing an ethos for organisational values.

Session 5: Skills Development – Building our Personal Impact

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The aim of these skills sessions is to inject some energy into the day by exploring and practicing some new leadership skills in an interactive format. The skill we’ll be focusing on is ‘Building our Personal Impact’. Leadership presence has been described as the ability to connect authentically with the hearts and minds of others in order to motivate or inspire. This interactive, experiential session will give you practical techniques to help you build your presence and impact to positively enhance how you are seen by others. We’ll explore:

• The key components of personal impact and inspirational leadership
• Building our influence, ensuring that we learn how to make personal impact with a purpose
• How to ensure that we are able shape our message so that will have the desired effect we want it to

Reflections & Implementation 

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We’ll leave some time at the end of the day to reflect on the learnings of the day, and think about how they can be implemented back into our organisations. We’ll also ensure you have the opportunity to catch up with your peers in the room before you leave.