laborious and time-consuming, but it pays to stick to your guns and
wait until you find someone with the right cultural fit. By doing so,
you’ll save headaches later on by setting yourself up for easier team
management. With the right team in place you’ll have less dissent,
fewer problems, and will achieve your goals more quickly and easily.
3 Demand the passion for constant improvement
A quality I look for when recruiting is the desire on the part of the
individual to be the best they can be. ‘Good enough’ is not good
enough. I make it clear that I’m building a high performance team and
I want fired-up instructors who are keen to upskill regularly in order to
become even greater than they already are.
Once each passenger is sitting in the right
seat, driving your bus is a dream. Driving with
passengers who are in conflict with you or
each other, or questioning the direction or the
destination, however, is no leader’s idea of a
good time.
Managing a team of the ‘right people’ also
means that you don’t need to worry too much
about motivating them because they are selfmotivated. The right people will make your job
as leader or manager easy. The right people
will reach goals seemingly effortlessly by
pulling together.
Make the hard calls early on and sort
out who is on your bus and where they are
sitting: failing to do so will not only decrease
everyone’s enjoyment of the journey, but also
jeopardise your likelihood of reaching your
destination.
Leisl Klaebe is Group Exercise Coordinator at Virgin
Active Norwest, where she coordinates over 220
classes a week and a team of 70 group exercise
instructors. Leisl is also a Group Fitness Coach and can
be contacted at [email protected]
WOMEN OF INFLUENCE
LUNCH AT FILEX
SATURDAY 29 APRIL / 12 – 2:45PM / DOCKSIDE FUNCTION CENTRE, COCKLE BAY WHARF
Featuring some of the fitness industry’s most influential and insightful female leaders, the Women of Influence Lunch
is your opportunity to come together with like-minded peers as the panel share their experiences and expertise from
our diverse and competitive industry.
The panel features 5 individuals who epitomise what it is to be a woman of influence – strong, intelligent, driven leaders
who hold their own at the top of the fitness industry and seek to enable other women to join them. Experience their
stories and benefit from their insights in the fields of leadership, entrepreneurialism, program development and more.
DIONE FORBES-RYRIE
LIBBY BABET
MAUREEN ‘MO’ HAGAN
ALISHA SMITH
NARDIA NORMAN
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