1. SL1– Level 1 Qualification in Sports Leadership Tutor Resource
Unit 1 – Establishing leadership skills

2. Unit 1 – Establishing leadership skills
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this unit, you will:
Know the skills and behaviours needed to lead others
Be able to use leadership skills and behaviours effectively
Be able to take on the roles and responsibilities of an official in sport/physical activity
Know the leadership opportunities available to them

3. Unit 1 – Establishing leadership skills
Learning Outcome 1
By the end of this section, you will:
Know the skills and behaviours needed to lead others
And to provide evidence of this you must:
Complete Tasks 1.1 and 1.2 in your LER

4. Leadership skills What is a skill?
What skills does an effective leader need to have?
Why are these skills important when leading others?
Activity - Good leader, bad leader
Time: 20 minutes
Working in small groups, draw ‘a good leader‘ or a ‘bad leader’.
Present your leader to the rest of the group, explaining why the chosen elements were included in your pictures.
What words are associated with the good/bad leaders?
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5. Leadership skills What is a skill?
What skills does an effective leader need to have?
Why are these skills important when leading others?
Activity – Leadership contract
Time: 20 minutes
Make a list of skills that are associated with the ‘good leader’ and list of those that the ‘bad leader’ represents.
Select several from each list that you can try to be/do/work towards during your sports leadership course.
Create a contract where you can ‘sign up’ to these ideals.
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6. Leadership skills Examples of leadership skills include:
Effective communication skills – verbal and non-verbal
Ability to motivate others
Organisation and planning skills
Ability to manage behaviour
Any others?
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7. Leadership behaviours
What is a behaviour?
What behaviours does an effective leader need to portray?
What is the difference between a skill and a behaviour?

8. How should a leader behave?
Sometimes leaders do not behave in a way that we expect them to…
Activity – How should a leader behave?
Time: 60 minutes
Show some clips of leaders behaving in different ways. Some of the leaders you see will display behaviour that is appropriate to the situation, some will not!
Note down the different behaviours you see, identifying if it is appropriate or not and for each you spot, suggest the effect that the behaviour had on those being led.
Share your thoughts with the rest of the group and see if you can create a list of desirable and undesirable behaviours that a leader should aspire to.

9. Leadership behaviours
Examples of desirable leadership behaviours include:
Tolerance
Respect
Resilience
Approachable
Positive attitude
Commitment
Any others?

10. Working as part of a team
Many of the leadership skills and behaviours will be necessary for effective teamwork. You’ll need to work successfully with others throughout your course.

11. Working as part of a team
Activity – Square bashing
Time: 30 minutes
In groups of 8, mark on the floor a 3x3 grid (masking tape works well) made up of 9 x 1mx1m squares.
Each person stands in a square and selects a number between 1 and 8 at random.
Work as a group to move positions, so that people numbered 1, 2 and 3 are on the top row, 4, 5 and 6 in the middle row and 7 and 8 on the bottom row. One square will be empty
Players can only:
Move sideways or up and down the grid (no diagonal moves allowed)
Move to an empty square
Move one square at a time. You may not ‘leapfrog’ another player.
After the activity discuss the leadership skills and behaviours that were used/needed/displayed and analyse the effect that each one had on the success of the activity and team cohesion.

12. Tasks
Reminder – you need to have completed Tasks 1.1 and 1.2 from your LER. These will be assessed by your tutor.

13. Unit 1 – Establishing leadership skills
Learning Outcome 2
By the end of this section, you will:
Be able to use leadership skills and behaviours effectively
Understand team work
And to provide evidence of this you must:
Complete Task 1.3 – Audit of leadership skills

14. Developing own leadership skills
Leadership skills can be evaluated in a number of ways:
Self evaluation
Peer evaluation
Group evaluation
Tutor evaluation
Evaluation tools e.g. video analysis, chuff chart, traffic light, team bus, and so on
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15. Developing own leadership skills
Activity – Leadership skills gap planning
Time: 60 minutes
Where are you now? - Organise the evaluation of a set number of leadership skills to establish your current strengths and weaknesses.
Where would you like to be? - Decide which skills you will focus on developing and why/how doing this will improve your ability to lead effectively.
Bridge the gap - Make a plan that is SMART in order to bridge the gap that currently exists.
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16. Task
Reminder – you need to have completed Task 1.3 from your LER. This will need to be assessed.

17. Unit 1 – Establishing leadership skills
Learning Outcome 3
By the end of this section you will:
Know the roles and responsibilities of sports officials
Take on the role of an official whist leading a sport/physical activity session
And to provide evidence of this you must:
Complete Task 1.4 – Evaluate your own leadership skills (in LER) either during or after the delivery of this section

18. Roles and responsibilities of sports officials
Being an official doesn’t just mean being the referee or umpire; lots of sports use a range of different officials to do many different jobs.
Activity – Roles and responsibilities of sports officials
Time: 60 minutes
Select a sport (or you may be allocated one) and investigate:
Which officials are involved?
What are they called?
Do they have specific kit and/or equipment that helps them do the job?
What are their responsibilities?
What skills do they need in order to do their job effectively?
Create a poster or presentation to share your findings with the rest of the group.
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19. Taking on the role of an official
Activity – Stop the game
Time: 60 minutes
Your tutor will organise a small sided, conditioned invasion game to be played. You will be asked to stand at the side of the pitch whilst play is in progress and, at appropriate times, to stop the game and add in a new rule. You must make sure your ‘stop’ is good (loud, effective, confident) and that all players understand the rule you introduce. Remember to use a demonstration if necessary and to check understanding.
Afterwards, discuss what this activity taught you about taking on the role of an umpire or referee.

20. Task
Reminder – you need to have completed Task 1.4 from your LER. This will need to be assessed.

21. Unit 1 – Establishing leadership skills
Learning Outcome 4
By the end of this section you will:
Know the leadership opportunities that are available within your organisation, local and wider community
Know about opportunities that exist to do other related qualifications

22. Leadership opportunities
Activity – Leadership opportunities in the organisation
Time: 60 minute
Carry out an audit of leadership opportunities that are on offer within your organisation.
Remember that the opportunities that you identify do not have to be confined to sport, they can be across all areas of the organisation.
Are there areas that might benefit from an increased number of leaders? Or that currently don’t have any leaders but could do?
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23. Leadership opportunities
Activity – Leadership opportunities in the community
Time: 60 minutes
Select a local organisation - it might be a sports facility, community centre, youth club, uniformed organisation or similar – and investigate:
What role(s) a leaders do/could take on
How a leader could support the organisation
How a leader might benefit from leading within the organisation
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24. End of Unit 1 – Establishing leadership skills Recap
A quick reminder of the Learning Outcomes in this unit:
You should now:
Know the skills and behaviours needed to lead others
Be able to use leadership skills and behaviours effectively
Be able to take on the roles and responsibilities of an official in sport/physical activity
Know the leadership opportunities available to them