A learning and development opportunity supporting leaders in sport to enhance their skills and knowledge within Scotland's world class sporting system has opened their application process to the next cohort. A new cohort of the Scottish Sporting Leaders Programme (SSLP), introduced by sportscotland, is to be launched, aimed at helping improve the leadership skills or increase the leadership capability of staff within the sporting sector throughout the country.
Each cohort will include a mix of delegates from local and national partners as well as sportscotland staff. The programme will provide specific, innovative, and tailored support to local and national senior managers who, through their leadership approach, are genuinely committed to diversity and inclusion and can influence change within their organisations. The course will be led and facilitated by Clare Moore and Graham Smith of Business Jigsaw.
What is the Scottish Sporting Leaders Programme?
The first cohort of the programme was launched in September 2018, including development through team workshops, 360-degree feedback processes and a personalised learning development programme. The programme is aimed at senior managers within local authorities and leisure trusts, including those working within Active Schools and Sports Development teams, and within Scottish Governing Bodies of Sport (SGBs) as well as Partnership Managers and equivalent from sportscotland.
Jude Salmon, Active Schools manager for Edinburgh Council and a member of the first cohort, was excited by the spread of experience within the programme.
“I wanted to network more with other agencies in sport and broaden my network of people and learn more about areas other than Active Schools. I wanted to become a better leader and learn more about other ways of leading.”
What do I need to know?
The idea behind the programme is about creating a community of sporting leaders who can share ideas, offer each other support, and challenge each other to perform at an even higher level.
Within the programme, there will be a strong focus on ensuring equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) underpins everything we do within the sector - with specific content linked to the sportscotland EDI Strategy. The programme will be designed to allow participants the opportunity to continue to develop and reflect on their inclusive leadership behaviour and performance.
Member of a previous cohort, Jamie Smith, Development Manager at ClimbScotland, found the mix of experiences to be beneficial to his learning process;
“There is a real mixture of experience and variations of the impact on the sporting sectors. It’s been beneficial to hear how others have approached challenges and their personal reflections of this.”
FIND OUT MORE & APPLY
- To find out more and access the application process, click here.
