is it better to side-step, fend or ruck it?

Navigating your Future on an uneven

playing field

Is it better to side-step, fend or ruck it?

12 April 2017

Dr Farah Rangikoepa Palmer

School of Management

Te Kura Whai Pakihi

Massey University

Does sport assist women to achieve their

aspirations and potential?

Sport as a platform for change?Michelle Payne

"I want to say to everyone else, get

stuffed, because women can do anything and we

can beat the world."

Sport as a way of rejecting stereotypes?Ronda Rousey

#MadefromMore

Sport as a way to develop

& do leadership

Sport as a way to influence?

Navigating your future through sport

Power

Performance

Participation

Pepeha

Pepeha

Kia whakatōmuri te

haere whakamua

My past is my present is

my future

I walk backwards into

the future

with my eyes fixed on

my past

Ko wai au?

What do you bring to the leadership table?

tūrangawaewae mauri whakapapa kaupapa

Participation - get in the game

Be Brave

Do

Learn

Take the space!

Participation = growth

G

• GOALS• What were you trying to achieve? Outcomes?

R• REALITY• Was it achieved and to what extent?

O

• OPPORTUNITIES• what can you do to improve on what happened?

• What can you do to assist further learning?

W• WHAT NOW?• What are you going to do now?

Performance –

get some wins

19982006

2002

Participation – learn from loss

Overcome setbacks and obstacles

V is for Vision – where is the

space?

Staying the course

Current reality

Vision

Based on William D. Hitt, (1988) The Leader-Manager: Guidelines for Action;

Columbus, OH: Battelle Press.

What is your vision?

How do you influence?

• Do

• Say

• Who

• Where

• When

• Why

Behaviour Objective Specific behaviours

Task-oriented

To accomplish work in an efficient and reliable way

Clarifying

Planning

Monitoring operations

Problem-solving

Relations-oriented

To increase the quality of human resources and relations (human capital)

Supporting

Developing

Recognizing

Empowering

Change-oriented

To increase innovation, collective learning, and adaptation to the external environment

Advocating change

Envisioning change

Encouraging innovation

Facilitating collective learning

External To acquire necessary information and resources, and to promote and defend the interests of the team or organization

Networking

External monitoring

Representing

Power = Influence• … if indeed the sporting world

was a level playing field as often purported “… then the workplace of the SportsWorld would be comprised of trained professionals from different race and ethnicities, cultures, genders, religion, sexualities, national origin, age, and ability status mixing together equally …” (Smith & Hattery, 2011, p. 107).

Levels of Understanding

Action Mode Time Orientation

Typical Questions

Vision GenerativeFuture What are the stated or unstated visions

that generate the mental model?

Mental Models ReflectiveWhat are the theories and beliefs that generate the structures?

Systemic Structures CreativeWhat are the mental models or organisational structures that create the patterns?

Patterns of Behaviour over time Adaptive

What trends or patterns of events seem to be recurring?

Events Reactive PresentWhat is the fastest way to react to this event NOW?

Men as flankers

Pass it back!

Role-modelling, Mentoring, Sponsoring

K is for Kick it Forward!

Create space for

others

Space for more young women to

see themselves as leaders

Space for

more

rangatahi to

be

entrepreneurs

Space for more Māori in business

More diverse women pursuing

tertiary education space

More space for girls and women

being empowered

through sport and study

More diverse women of influence in …

… & through sport

The Programme

Wednesday 28th June, New Zealand Rugby MuseumConference welcome (Stephen Berg)

Thursday 29th June, Sport & Rugby Institute Pōwhiri, conference presentations and discussion forums.

Friday 30th June, Sport & Rugby Institute Conference presentations and discussion forums.

Friday evening 30th June, Hotel CoachmanConference dinner includes speeches, prizes, cultural performances and farewell.

Keynote Speakers

Mike Chu: National Coach Development Manager (NZR)

Prof. John Evans: Indigenous Health Education -

University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

Prof. Ken Hodge: School of PE, Sport & Exercise

Sciences, University of Otago, New Zealand.

Prof. John Nauright: Chair of Dept. of Kinesiology, Health

Promotion & Recreation - University of North Texas, USA.

Melodie Robinson: sports journalist and former Black Fern

Wayne Goldsmith: internationally renowned

elite sports coach.For further information please contact the Conference Director:Dr Rachel J. Batty: +64 6 951 8025. Email. r.batty@massey.ac.nz

28th June to 30th June, 2017

Navigating your Future on an

uneven playing field by

Standing strong

Side-stepping naysayers

Fending off self-doubt & bias

Rucking and Mauling it

Passing it back & Kicking it forward