16. Understanding leadership styles and developing your own practice

Sunday late afternoon workshop: 14:30 - 16:00

Workshop description:

Examining the positive impact of good leadership, and how we can aspire to growing our leadership toolbox. Understanding different leadership styles and their relevance to your practice in the outdoors. Examining what effective leadership behaviours look like, and how we can apply these to our daily lives, as well as our practice. Exploring leadership in the context of differing client needs and environments. Learning more about our preferences and default settings as leaders, and how we can become more aware of our style, behaviours and, ultimately, our impact on those we lead.

Equipment:

Indoor session - None specified

Workshop Provider

Samantha McElligott

After completing a joint honours degree in Law and French from Keele University in 2000, Samantha decided to make a career move into the more applied environment of education within the outdoors. She has spent over 20 years working as an instructor, coach, development trainer, and expedition leader on both UK and overseas adventures. Concurrently, she studied Life Coaching and Performance Coaching, NLP and completed both a Postgraduate Diploma in Coaching and Mentoring (Wolverhampton University) and a Postgraduate Certificate of Higher Education (Bangor University). Samantha’s ensuing Ph.D research examined transformational leadership in the context of overseas expeditions, and the impact on participants’ self-esteem. The research was presented at International Sports Psychology Conferences, and won the student poster prize at the DSEP conference in Manchester (2013). Her research has been integrated into Mountain Training's walking qualifications, presented as the INSPIRE model.

Samantha is an outdoor enthusiast and is passionate about developing peoples’ potential through the medium of outdoor experiences. Now, she practices as a Mental Health First Aid Trainer and Leadership Consultant specialising in the development of transformational leadership and performance coaching behaviours. She has worked with ATG-A since 2016, helping to develop the ALeRT Training course and strengthen knowledge and confidence in developmental theory and techniques across the group.

Further details of the PhD research can be found via the following link: https://www.outlookexpeditions.com/who-we-are/phd

Start

16/10/2022 14:30

End

16/10/2022 16:00

Maximum Bookings

32

Bookings

32

Venue

Plas y Brenin - National Outdoor Centre

Town

Betws-y-Coed

County

Conwy Principal Area

Postcode

LL24 0ET

Country

United Kingdom

Latitude

53.10228

Longitude

-3.91823

Name

Mountain Training

Phone

01690 720272

Email