Leadership

Cricket Victoria Girls' Leadership Forum

On Monday 27 November Hope Maillard, Sophie Johnson, Sinead Garry and Jordy Murphy (Year 7 and 8) attended a Girls’ Leadership Excursion run by Cricket Victoria at Melbourne Girls’ College.  Below they share their experience. 

Emily Price

On Monday I had the amazing opportunity to participate in a leadership forum run by Cricket Victoria. We attended Melbourne Girls' College to take part in several activities all based around leadership skills. Throughout the day, we listened to two panels. We received insight from guest panelist into developing leadership skills.  Speakers included  Belinda  Clark, an amazing cricketer who was the first and only person to score a double century in a women's one day international. We also heard from Isabella Dymalovski. I found her very interesting as she started a business at the age of eight years old and now is only 16 and is very successful managing to expand her business into America. The female speakers were my favourites as it proved that you can be a great leader without being a male. Isabella also appealed to me as she is very close to my age and is proving that as long as you stick with your instinct you can achieve anything no matter how old you are.

There were also four activities we got to participate in including Pilates, Smiling Minds and two workshops. The workshops were all about how to recognise that you are running low on energy mentally and physically. And the other was about asking a mentor for advice or help to achieve a certain skill. Personally what I got out of the day is that I  can now recognise when I need to recharge my internal battery as I know the signs of when I am stressed or scared about something. I also know that girls can achieve absolutely anything they put their minds to and to not listen to anyone putting them down.

My favourite part of the day was the Pilates as it was a great physical workout and it gave tips on how to stay fit and healthy. Because even though in leadership you need to stay mentally healthy it is also important to keep yourself physically healthy.

It was a privilege to go and I am grateful that I could participate and learn about different leadership skills that I can take through life and benefit me in different situations.

Sophie Johnson, Year 8