{"id":7971,"date":"2022-04-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/?post_type=article&#038;p=7971"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:11:37","slug":"leaders-virtual-roundtable-developing-oneself-how-and-what","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/leaders-virtual-roundtable-developing-oneself-how-and-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders Virtual Roundtable: Developing Oneself &#8211; How and What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- blocks\/hero-editorial -->\n<!-- inc\/hero-editorial -->\n<div class=\"hero es-hero__editorial hero--var-1\" role=\"banner\">\n\t<div class=\"hero__image\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Leaders-Virtual-Roundtable.jpg);\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"hero__overlay grad-overlay content-bottom\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content\">\n                                            <div class=\"members-only-label\">Members Only<\/div>\n                    \n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t                            <p class=\"es-label es-label--md\">\n                                19 Apr 2022                            <\/p>\n                        \t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\" class=\"theme-dark hero__back-link back-link es-label es-label--sm\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"icon icon--md icon--arrow-left\"><\/span>Articles<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"hero__title\">Leaders Virtual Roundtable: Developing Oneself &#8211; How and What?<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n        \n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n    <section class=\"es-section theme-light hero__sidebar-wrapper container\">\n        <div class=\"hero__sidebar\">\n                            <div class=\"category-list\">\n                  <div class=\"es-label es-label--sm\">Category <\/div>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/category\/coaching-development-performance\/\" rel=\"tag\">Coaching &amp; Development<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/category\/premium\/\" rel=\"tag\">Premium<\/a>                <\/div>\n                            <div class=\"share-list\">\n                  <div class=\"es-label es-label--sm\">Share <\/div>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/leaders-virtual-roundtable-developing-oneself-how-and-what\/\">Facebook<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/leaders-virtual-roundtable-developing-oneself-how-and-what\/&#038;text=Leaders Virtual Roundtable: Developing Oneself - How and What?\">Twitter<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Here's a Leaders In Sport article for you &amp;body=Check out this article: Leaders Virtual Roundtable: Developing Oneself - How and What?. https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/leaders-virtual-roundtable-developing-oneself-how-and-what\/\">Email<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"#copyLink\" id=\"copyButton\" class=\"copy-link-clipboard\">Copy Link<\/a>\n                  <div id=\"textToCopy\" class=\"font-hidden\">https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/leaders-virtual-roundtable-developing-oneself-how-and-what\/<\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n\n<!-- blocks\/section -->\n<section\n  class=\"es-section flexible-section  text-only theme-light\"\n    >\n                <div class=\"container\">\n                                    <div class=\"bg-striped-pattern__inner section-padding-top section-padding-bottom\">\n                <div class=\"es-section__inner col-parent col-parent--stack-sm\">\n                                            <div class=\"es-section__sidebar es-section__sidebar--sticky col col--12 \">\n                            \n                            \n                            \n                                                            <div class=\"es-section__text content-area\">\n                                    <p><h6>By Sarah Evans<\/h6>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Recommended reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance\/gregor-townsend-1\/\">How to Find the Opportunities to Learn When You Are a Head Coach<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brenebrown.com\/podcast\/finding-focus-and-owning-your-attention\/\">Finding Focus and Owning Your Attention &#8211; Bren\u00e9 Brown <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/702010institute.com\/702010-model\/\">The 70:20:10 Model &#8211; A different view of work, performance and learning<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Framing the topic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many of our Virtual Roundtables are focused on how our members get the best of out their athletes, coaches and environments. We\u2019re busy helping others, and can often overlook the time and development of oneself. For this discussion, we created a space for our members to look internally and share insights around what they are focused on development-wise and how they are looking to influence it. We are really interested in this notion of \u2018lifting ideas off the page\u2019 and understanding how to take brilliant reflections and discussions and turn them into tangible actions within a high performance environment. For many this is a challenging subject, and often we spend so much time developing others and being stuck in day-to-day delivery, that we leave little time for personal development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion points<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Question 1: What areas of performance are you looking to develop yourself in?<\/p>\n<p>Question 2: How are you doing that? Where are you getting the most insight from?<\/p>\n<p>What are some of the main focuses for development?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How you best connect and communicate with people?<\/li>\n<li>General team leadership and managing others.<\/li>\n<li>Understanding others and how best to position yourself with that person, to identify what their needs are and where to focus their attention.<\/li>\n<li>Strategy and pathway strategy.<\/li>\n<li>True influence. Having the ability to influence upwards, sideways and backwards.<\/li>\n<li>There is an overwhelming amount of information, so trying to encapsulate what you think is really important for your role is so important.<\/li>\n<li>The notion of belonging and how that culture can bring people from across different regions or even departments together.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some key ways of developing oneself our members shared are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Broad and diverse reading, often around the science of our respective practice.<\/li>\n<li>Learning from others who have been on a journey or are embarking on a similar one, having in-depth discussion and sharing of ideas.<\/li>\n<li>High performance sport is constantly moving, so the group find they are able to engage most in personal development on the go through audible books and podcasts.<\/li>\n<li>Journaling and reflective practice. Creating space for short reviews at the beginning and end of each week or day around learnings and focuses.<\/li>\n<li>Create a learning network \u2013 critical friends and mentors both inside and outside of your sport.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Critical friends \/ mentors \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creating a learning network was a key discussion point on this roundtable, and the importance of having a mentor or someone to hold you to account, challenge and support you was extremely valuable.<\/li>\n<li>Trust is built up through these critical friends, and you can get more value here than through often tick-box exercises of performance development reviews.<\/li>\n<li>It is imperative to build a culture where it is OK to learn from others, to be open minded and to look outside of your immediate sphere for learning. Through these shared learnings you build empathy, which only brings people together and enhances connection.<\/li>\n<li>One interesting provocation during the call was to ask, how do we capture or measure this growth with what we engage in? The answer to this was not straightforward and many felt they hadn\u2019t found the best answer yet, but being able to externalise your internal thoughts was key.<\/li>\n<li>Can you create a scrapbook? As you or people go through things, allowing yourself to formalise those thoughts \u2013 linking to that notion of externalising what you are internalising.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>So how does this look in practice?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Consider the 70:20:10 approach \u2013 how we can better get people learning on the job, complemented by working with someone else and then the more formal learning environment?<\/li>\n<li>Spend time understanding yourself first. Understand your intrinsic biases, why you think the way you do, as the more you understand your own lens, the more efficiently you can work, and impartially you can reflect. It\u2019s also powerful in understanding how to work with other individuals and appreciate where they are coming from.<\/li>\n<li>Diversity of thought is key. Actively recruit from different sports, education, experience. Take yourself outside of your own area, go off site, explore other perspectives and experiences.<\/li>\n<li>Be specific and be intentional. So often we go wide and shallow and are too broad, identify something and go narrow and deep into it. Give yourself a time frame and really dive into it, then reflect on how you think it has gone.<\/li>\n<li>Create pilot projects if you\u2019re unsure, make a smaller version, trial them, get feedback and move forwards. If people in your team have similar interests, pair up and do it with them so you are mutually developing each other. This also allows you to bring in more people after the piloting phase.<\/li>\n<li>Balance using your free time for personal development and actually allowing yourself time to rest, to prevent burnout. Bringing mindfulness practice into your day to enable you to be rested and more productive when you are working.<\/li>\n<li>In terms of measuring impact and growth, consider a learning profile that can be done in six-month blocks. It creates a level of accountability around focuses, knowing they are going to be reviewed after a certain time. Can you create a scoring system to measure that growth around a particular theme?<\/li>\n<li>Creating the moment for diffuse thinking to take place. The importance of carving out time to be able to reflect and digest key conversations and learnings that have taken place, instead of just moving from one thing to another.<\/li>\n<li>An example that was shared on the call around bringing theory to life was being proactive in creating a PowerPoint presentation as if you were delivering or presenting back on the topic. 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