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Home Blog Belinda Clark - Elevating Leadership and Development in Sport and Business
17Apr

Belinda Clark - Elevating Leadership and Development in Sport and Business
By Sonia Goss | Blog, Podcast, Real Talk With Outperformers, belinda clark | 17 Apr 2023 |

Belinda Clark joins Brad in our latest episode of Real Talk With Outperformers and talks about her career in the sporting industry. From playing tennis up to the age of 13, to becoming captain of the National Women’s Cricket team, to how she took her experiences and life lessons from sport and incorporated them into her business and leadership roles.

Here are some of the podcast highlights;

From Tennis to Cricket

Belinda shares a memory of her first time holding the cricket bat in her hand, alongside her father and brother. Explaining the connection to family is how her whole career started. Although she followed in her mother’s footsteps and went on to play tennis for a few years, she quickly found her passion in cricket as she started high school.

Learning how to manage the game and a team

Belinda was made captain of the national team at the young age of 23, she explains that she “had no great, deep past experiences” in managing a team, but felt safe and supported throughout her experience. She unpacks her management tactics as an “amalgamation” of 2 past mentors and strategised her simple plan;

  1. “Do as I do” - role modelling, training hard and putting in the effort.
  2. Facilitate working as a team, not telling her teammates what to do.
  3. Trusting her instincts.

Attend to today and tomorrow will look after itself

Within her career,  Belinda understood that she had a finite time to create an impact – leading her to make the most out of her time in the present.

After not making it to the final and feeling ‘shameful’ at the World Cup back in 1993, Belinda explains that she learnt a life lesson to avoid getting ahead of yourself, and assuming everything will turn out in your favour.

Change of intention to success

“Dropping the breadcrumbs further out” Belinda uses this phrase to explain how she shifted her leadership skills. Brad and Belinda then discuss how complacency and stagnation can hinder personal growth, creativity, and progress, and how pushing ourselves beyond familiar boundaries can lead to new opportunities and breakthroughs. “If it’s not broken, rebuild it!”

Entering uncharted territory

“We’ve got more to do” Those were Belinda’s words after being congratulated on making history. On December 16, 1997 Belinda Clark became the first to score 200 in an ODI. She goes on to share that she doesn’t look back on this as her best innings, but instead was important for her team and campaign, as well as leading her team to win the tournament.

Changing the way kids play the sport

After sharing that watching her nephews cricket match was “the most boring thing she’s ever watched”, Belinda went about changing that to create a more engaging, enjoyable, faster game with much better skill development.

When asked by Brad how she got around people resisting the idea of changing the game, Belinda says that it didn’t matter what research she found, or what she thought was right, all that mattered was that they had to see the game with their own eyes, for them to become advocates.

Role Modelling of Honest Conversations

After discussing the failure of bringing problems to the surface, whether it’s in sporting or business context, Belinda says it’s important to encourage your team to speak up, allowing them to express their opinions and to celebrate difference -“What have you done to encourage them to speak?”

Watchers Vs Participators

Belinda explores the balanced Aussie lifestyle of watching the game and also playing the game, and why it’s crucial to make sports accessible, appealing, and relevant to all, and how it can benefit the sports community as a whole.

Find out more about Belinda’s amazing career and discussions on cultural shifts on and off the field– listen to our latest podcast. Links below.

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