The Mintridge Foundation & The Foundation for Leadership through Sport “Learning To Lead” With Gresham’s School
The Mintridge Foundation & The Foundation for Leadership through Sport “Learning To Lead” With Gresham’s School
We have recently launched our “Learning To Lead” Programme with the brilliant team at the Foundation for Leadership through Sport and on Tuesday 8th December, we returned to Gresham’s School in a virtual capacity to follow up with the Peer Mentor Group as part of our Pilot Programme.
Five students across year groups and sports joined The Foundation for Leadership through Sport Director, Bob Reeves and double Paralympic Champion, Danielle Brown MBE to explore in great depth what the purpose of leadership is in their respective bubbles.
“Leadership is based on improvement and opportunities for all”
Having Danielle’s insight from her archery career, that began at the age of 15, instantly gave students the relatability that was needed to place the theories in a practical sense. Danielle openly shared the techniques that she put in place to improve her self confidence that took her to World Number One.
Self awareness is key to leadership and we were keen to make the session as interactive as possible with the online constraints that the Covid – 19 Pandemic brings. Therefore, in pairs, the Peer Mentor Group scored themselves and their partners on various aspects of leadership. From self confidence through to commitment to high level performance, scores ranged between 1-5 and the group openly shared with each other about what they can do to help improve the lower scores.
Bob and our Leadership Ambassadors will continue to support the Leadership Group via Playwaze and future sessions in 2021. We look forward to sharing the successes with our supporters.
To learn more about our launch at Gresham’s in November with Bob Reeves and Eboni Usoro - Brown , please visit this page.
Thank you very much to the Gresham’s School staff for inviting the Foundation for Leadership through Sport and the Mintridge Foundation team to deliver our Pilot Programme with you, building on the success of our previous netball programmes. We look forward to returning (albeit virtually) in February to support the Talented Athlete Programme students with their progress.
If your school would like to enquire about a Leadership Programme for your Prefects or Sports Teams, please contact Alex Wallace.