Скачать или смотреть On The Front Foot - Episode 3: Allyship and Collaboration

The third and final episode of Cricket Ireland’s On the Front Foot took place on 23rd September. Providing the platform for three further stellar voices in the championing of female leaders, host Marie Crowe was joined by Irish Cricket international Mary Waldron currently preparing for a season of cricket in Australia, dialling in from Gloucestershire, people development specialist Karl Lines and Leading Sport’s Maeve Buckley live from Cork.

Alllyship and Collaboration were the key themes for this week’s discussion with trust, respect and communication three important drivers emerging throughout. Touching on how building trust in a safe environment encourages unity and diversity of thought in everyone, not just athletes, Maeve spoke to the importance of leaders making their people feel valued and part of a team. Communication is imperative to good leadership for Mary with openness to learning about and adapting to new and alternative methods of communication in order to best relate to your peers and mentors being key skills for her. Creating safety, security and mutual respect in any environment is key to Karl who spoke about grasping this current ‘disruptive’ opportunity that we have to positively affect change.