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 for the next cohort of future leaders.
The next Scottish Sporting Leaders Programme (SSLP), introduced by sportscotland, is to be launched, aimed at helping improve the leadership skills and 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.
Find out more and access the application process
What is the Scottish Sporting Leaders Programme?
First launched in September 2018, the programme is aimed at senior managers from across the sector – such as within local authorities and leisure trusts, those working within Active Schools and Sports Development teams, and those within Scottish Governing Bodies of Sport (SGBs) and 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 of the sector. 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.
