L2S E24: ACtS! Career Q&A with Emily McKie (interviewed by Michelle Redfern)
Lead to Soar
English - April 22, 2021 13:00 - 50 minutes - 45.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsCareers Business Education Self-Improvement boss management strategic ambitious business career ceo executive inspiration lead Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Bio for Emily McKie: Emily has coached sports for 10 years using an exploratory facilitation and athlete-centred coaching style, and is currently working with the U18 female program at Dandenong Stingrays as a development coach in the semi elite pathway. Emily created and managed what is now one of the biggest female junior football leagues in Victoria, Australia - the Eastern Region Girls Football League. She has used sport to go around the world - either playing, coaching, or running Auskick clinics in France, Sweden, Amsterdam, Germany, and Belgium.
Notable Episode Quotes:
“If you understand why you’re doing something, how you do it will come… If you can sell it and do it with conviction, you’re set." - Emily McKie
“A mentoring relationship is not sycophantic. You don’t have to agree and slavishly follow everything, however, it gives you that perspective – those different perspectives." -Michelle Redfern
“One of the myths I want to bust [around mentoring] is that you have to form this bosom buddies, symbiotic, chemistry laden, 25 year relationship that’s just going to be amazing… It won’t always be like that. Sometimes it’s short and sharp and mutually beneficial..” -Michelle Redfern