Women’s Sport Breakfast

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From 8:30am – 9:15am on Wednesday 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. All are welcome.

Welcome to Country & Summit Action Planning

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We’ll set the scene for the day and take the time to outline a plan of action to make the most out of the learnings from day one of the Summit. Within the action planning portion of our Summit welcome, we will be benchmarking ourselves and our organisation around our current effectiveness on the different topics and aspects of performance we will be shining a spotlight on across the two days.

Before we engage in the first session of the day, there will be a short period of time to discuss some questions in small groups, focusing on:

• Which of the topics you feel is your greatest strength?
• Which of these did you make the most progress on in 2023?
• Where you feel your biggest opportunity for improvement is?

Session 1: Cricket Australia Case Study – Performance Planning, Execution & Reviewing

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Effective performance planning is an important foundational piece of any high performing organisation to support the mission or end goal. There has been many examples of teams competing in major competition this year so we want to unpick their approaches around planning process, how this transitioned into execution, but also what the learnings were along the way. In this session we will hear from Ben and Andrew in the first part of the session, provide you with a chance to reflect on their insights and outline key questions you’d like them to provide further insight around in the second half of the session.

Skills Session: The Importance of Contingency Planning

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We’ll be reflecting on the learnings from the previous session, and give you the opportunity to unpack them with the peers around your table. We will focus on a specific theme aligned to the content discussed in the first session, providing you with some additional stimulus and consideration. The focus of this skills session will be Contingency Planning.

Sport is inherently unpredictable, and a vital component of good performance planning is preparing for contingencies. Identifying different scenarios that could happen, and preparing a strategy for how to respond. Developing this skill increases confidence and resilience.

Session 2: The Leading Edge – Being the Leader You and Your Team Needs You to Be

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Exploring 15 years of research into empowered leaders and combining this insight with the modern day organisation, what does real leadership look like in the current landscape? People are facing complexity and challenges from different directions, so how are we preparing for this? In this session we will explore insights and frameworks for leaders to create meaningful change in their environment, but most importantly ensure they are in their best place and mindset to set them and their teams up for success.

Interactive Roundtable: Reviewing Your Current Leadership

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As a follow on from the previous session focused on evaluating modern day leadership, we will take the opportunity to reflect on our own leadership and seek to identify the gaps in our current approach and that of the suggestions for effective future leadership. We will engage in a self-reflective exercise and as an extension, a ‘leadership promise’ around what others should expect from us, thus highlighting some clear areas for action we have as leaders.

Session 3: Talent Development – What Can We Learn From Other Elite Environments?

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With athletes at the centre of high performance models, multidisciplinary teams are working hard to optimise the environment to ensure the development of their talent is the number one priority. To provide a different perspective, we will explore a world-leading talent development environment from outside our industry, to benchmark and unpack their approach to high performance – what are the similarities, what are the differences?

Interactive Roundtable: Benchmarking Your Approach to Talent Development

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As a follow on from the previous session, we will look to use the insights to stimulate discussion on your table around your current approach to talent development. From the conversations shared from the speakers, what is similar and different to your current philosophy for developing talent? In our tables we will focus on three questions to aid self-reflection and conversation amongst your group:

• What were your key insights from the session?
• How have you improved your approach to talent development over the last couple of years? What have you learned about what works?
• Where do you see the biggest opportunities for improvement moving forward?

Session 4: Culture Case Study – Sustaining World Class Values

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An opportunity for us to explore two of the most heralded cultures in elite sport. We will get under the skin of the culture, the core foundations, how it is brought to life and sustained. How has this culture allowed the organisation to create an environment where innovation flourishes, problems are solved and people are supported?

At the end of this session, we will be engaging in a short exercise to allow you to reflect and benchmark your organisational values and behaviours.

One of the key skills for bringing values to life is ‘culture conversations’. Getting people to review the extent to which we’re living up to the values, and what tests them. We’ll close this session by helping you apply the insights from Mike and Phil to taking stock of we’re you’re at in your own journey to creating a winning culture.

Day One Reflections

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We’ll take time to debrief at the end of the session, and ensure you have a clear plan of action to take into Day 2, as well as looking at how we can implement today’s learnings back into your organisations. The aid that reflection, we will get into small groups with those you haven’t been sitting with at your table to discuss two questions:

• Most useful insights?
• How can you apply these insights in your environment?

Networking Drinks

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We’ll finish the day with some drinks, giving you the opportunity to connect and reconnect with peers and friends at the end of the afternoon and into the evening for those of you who wish to stick around. We’ll start at the venue and then we shall be hosting drinks from 6:00pm at Hopscotch, Melbourne.

4 Riverside Quay Southbank, Southbank Victoria 3006

Welcome & Action Planning

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We’ll set the scene for the day and take the time to outline a plan of action to make the most out of the learnings from day two of the Summit.

Session 1: Brisbane Lions Case Study – Performance Strategy, Programming & Environments

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This session will focus on how the Brisbane Lions have developed and evolved the Performance Strategy to create a positive environment to maximise athlete development & performance. Since joining the organisation nine years ago, Damien Austin the team’s High Performance Manager has been responsible for this process. Themes we will look to garner insight from Damien on is how to maximise the development of your athletes, continuous improvement and innovation around the programme taking into consideration the needs of the modern day athlete, creating performance habits and developing athlete ownership.

Session 2: Leading Change – Persuasion, Power & Influencing Others

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Change is a given, but how you go about making effective change as a leader, and taking people on that journey with you, is the complex bit. This session will go beyond thinking about formal models for change, and explore how people change their minds, and how as leaders we can take them on that journey. The session will allow you to listen to the research and data on persuasion, power, collaboration and credibility, as well as give you space to chat through real-time scenarios with your peers in the room.

Session 3: Making an Impact Around High Performance Coach & Staff Wellbeing

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In recent years, the support and awareness around athlete wellbeing has witnessed progression in our understanding of wellbeing, how to deliver support to our athletes and also the heightened resources at their disposal. There is a sense that the wellbeing of Coaches and High Performance staff as often been overlooked, especially with models placing athletes at the centre – their performance and wellbeing is our priority so we will do what is necessary. The dial needs to be shifted so this session will engage in a conversations of how this dial can be shifted to better support staff within your environment for sustained performance for all. 

Session 4: New Routes – Opportunities for Women’s Talent Pathways

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With more resource and focus on women’s pathways than ever before, how are we using this to ensure that the optimal environments are being created to support more women in their quest to reach elite levels of performance? We’ll be leaning on the insights of those influential in pathway strategies to explore what has been seen as “truths” for men’s pathways, and ask if for girls’ sport each of these truths hold true, do they need to be modified or simply remove completely?

Further to this, what are the gender specific considerations for each? What happens if these aren’t met or experience in the pathways years, and an athlete reaches open age sport? How and what can we as practitioners do to support them?

Interactive Roundtables: Opportunities for Women’s Talent Pathways

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Leaning on the insights and expertise from the speakers in the previous session, we will be putting the onus on you in the room to review, discuss and collaborate. With the ever-increasing opportunity for women in sport, we will provide you with time to discuss in small groups what you feel are the key foundations for a thriving women’s talent pathway. We would like you review where you are currently at, combine these thoughts from the speakers at the front and the discussions at your table.

• What does an optimal women’s talent pathway look like in your sport?
• What are the problems you are trying to solve? What is your role in that?

Session 5: The Braintrust – High Performance Hack

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Having collated the challenges you’re trying to sift the dial on in 2024, we’re going to run a braintrust on each of the top 10. You’ll be working together in small groups across different environments to understand the issue, brainstorm options and agree top 3 recommendations.

Day Two Reflections

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We’ll leave some time at the end of the event to reflect on the learnings from the two days, 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.