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The Leaders Performance Institute reflects on an afternoon of learning at the Tate Modern.<\/p>\n \n \n \n

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By John Portch<\/h6>\n
\u201cAre you doing what you want to be doing?\u201d David Clancy asked his audience.<\/h6>\n

Clancy, a learning and development consultant with the Houston Texans and Director at The Nxt Level Group, was speaking at the October launch of his new book Essential Skills for Physiotherapists: a Personal and Professional Development Framework<\/em> at London\u2019s Tate Modern Gallery.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe this day will make you think a little bit more into that question,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

The gallery\u2019s East Room, with its panoramic views of London, is a suitable backdrop for some of the brightest minds in sports science and medicine. Each of them knows there\u2019s more to their success than talent.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we\u2019re in college, we\u2019re taught the technical, clinical, hard skills, but it\u2019s the soft skills that make a difference,\u201d said Clancy.<\/p>\n

Essential Skills<\/em> is an effort to address that reality, bringing together as it does experts who, in some cases, had never previously met in order to collaborate. \u201cThat\u2019s the beauty of the book because it shows we can all get better together.\u201d<\/p>\n

The book\u2019s proceeds will go to Children\u2019s Health Ireland [CHI], a cause dear to Clancy and his family given the care they have provided to his four-year-old daughter Grace. \u201cThis way I can help people like my daughter and her friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clancy then introduced his roster of speakers \u2013 friends, collaborators and mentors \u2013 all of whom had wisdom to share.<\/p>\n

Here, the Leaders Performance Institute picks out five thinking points to help you reflect on Clancy\u2019s original question: are you doing what you want to be doing?<\/p>\n

1. Define the behaviours that will take you from potential to peak<\/strong><\/p>\n

First onstage was James Kerr, the author of the renowned Legacy<\/em>, who detailed the lessons leaders can take from New Zealand\u2019s All Blacks.<\/p>\n

He explained that the right behaviours are the real \u201cforce multiplier\u201d. Good behaviours, whether you\u2019re an athlete, coach or practitioner, will \u201ctake you from potential to peak more consistently\u201d.<\/p>\n

For the All Blacks, that may mean \u2018sweeping the sheds\u2019 but how does that look in your environment? What will enable you to show up more often and apply the right behaviours?<\/p>\n

2. Seek to understand, find common ground<\/strong><\/p>\n

Behaviours shouldn\u2019t be separated from your values, but how comfortable are you calling out poor behaviours? Any discomfort you feel may be amplified if you\u2019re a woman trying to progress in a male-dominated environment.<\/p>\n

Alicia Tang, the Head of Academy Medicine & Physical Performance at Derby County, recognises this \u201cinternal battle\u201d well enough and believes the first step is to speak to the relevant stakeholders. \u201cSeek to understand, find common ground, and then work on the resolution,\u201d she said during the second session.<\/p>\n

This view is shared by business consultant Michelle Carney, who said, \u201cIf you meet people where they are, you\u2019ll find the right people\u201d. They will not only be colleagues but allies.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s definitely empowering when you have those people around you,\u201d says Ashar Magoba, the Lead Academy Physiotherapist at Charlton Athletic, who is also starting to work with the club\u2019s first team. \u201cPerhaps those people can see something in you that you don\u2019t quite yet see yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

3. Take a look over the fence<\/strong><\/p>\n

Where do you look for insights and inspiration? Jack McCaffrey, a six-time All-Ireland Senior Football champion with Dublin GAA, enjoys himself in his day job as a paediatric doctor at CHI at Temple Street\u00a0in Dublin. \u201cI get to hang out with kids all day; and kids are just great,\u201d he told performance coach Ronan Conway during their fireside chat in session three.<\/p>\n

In some ways, McCaffrey\u2019s medical career is a sanctuary from his Gaelic football (particularly following a bad result). One could say the players of the strictly amateur Gaelic games in Ireland have a natural separation between the athlete and person that can often be lost in professional sports.<\/p>\n

During his intercounty career, McCaffrey\u2019s work also gave him lessons to take back to the Dublin panel, where the training environment was, to all intents and purposes, a professional setting.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of my learning of dealing with high-pressure situations has come from work,\u201d he said. \u201cHow to remain cool, how to have feedback loops, how to make sure you\u2019re sticking to algorithms.\u201d<\/p>\n

4. Find the information in your trauma<\/strong><\/p>\n

In sport, we continually speak of \u2018controlling the controllables\u2019 and yet 95% of human brain activity is subconscious. It is a troubling thought for life coach Mark Whittle, the Founder of the Take Flight performance consultancy, as he told us during the fourth session.<\/p>\n

His presentation returned to the question of behaviours, which he said are governed by both our drive towards pleasure and wish to avoid pain. Tied up in that avoidance of pain is fear, which can be born of trauma.<\/p>\n

Consider a setback you\u2019ve suffered: how can you learn from that event and respond appropriately? \u201cWhat can you make it mean?\u201d Whittle asked the audience.<\/p>\n

5. Identify your gaps<\/strong><\/p>\n

It takes humility to recognise what it takes to excel in a new role. In the final session, Jeff Konin and Trevor Bates warn of the Peter Principle. The concept, devised by psychologist Laurence J Peter, states that people tend to be promoted to their \u2018level of respective incompetence\u2019. Think of the supreme technician who, upon promotion, finds themselves overwhelmed as a manager tasked for the first time with leading people.<\/p>\n

For Konin, the important thing is finding your \u2018where\u2019 when looking five or ten years into the future. \u201cWhat skills do you need that you don\u2019t currently possess?\u201d said the Clinical Professor from Florida International University.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Bates may be the President & CEO of Mercy College in Ohio, but he has no problem with being the \u201cpupil\u201d. He said: \u201cI might be the one who moves a programme forward, but intellectually I might be a pupil in that space.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Essential Skills for Physiotherapists: a Personal and Professional Development Framework <\/em>is available now from Elsevier.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n <\/div>\n

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