Become a highly effective leader!

What does the future hold for you and your career at Western Cape Sport School? Most of us ponder this question from time to time… "When I get time, I'm going to get back into shape/play the piano/find someone famous ". But in reality, what we want tends to evolve and change throughout each day of our lives.

As we learn and gain experience, we find our strengths and build our skills. When we stumble, we find new ways to cope and adapt. As we find success, we extend our ambitions. And so, as we change and grow, we shape our futures. Setting personal goals is a powerful process, and I would like to use your goals for motivating change within the school to turn the original vision of the Western Cape Sport School into reality.

More than this, sharing our goals can be incredibly motivating to each other, and as you get into the habit of setting, sharing and achieving your personal goals, you'll find that your self-confidence builds and those around you develop a similar sense of accomplishment. The Western Cape Sport School’s Goals are set on a number of different levels: First we need to create the "big picture" of what we want to do with the school, and what large-scale goals we want to achieve. Secondly, we need to break these down into the smaller and smaller targets that each one of us must hit so that we can reach our shared goals. Finally, once we have a plan, we can start working to achieve it.

We start this process with discovering everyone’s “Goals”, and work down to the things we can do today to start moving towards them.

We need to develop the idea of a "boundary less organization." This means that everyone is free to brainstorm and think of ideas - instead of waiting for someone "higher up" in the bureaucracy to think of them first. As a team you have been "turned loose," and I promise to listen to ideas from anyone in the school. Everyone from the learners, to the non-educating staff, to senior managers, you have my attention - if you have something to say or a new idea that might make the school better, ‘just talk’.
Let us all stay true to our passions and what we know is right.