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Mark Batey @drmarkbatey.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Can #leaders learn about creativity, innovation & high performance from football? ⚽️ Our new study explored the #leadership and performance management requirements of Performance Directors in elite football. I expected to find insights about performance systems, structure, and decision-making.

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Mark Batey @drmarkbatey.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Find out about our part time hybrid executive masters for sporting leaders by following @msd-mmu.bsky.social

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Mark Batey @drmarkbatey.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

This was a fab opportunity to enhance creativity and innovation ensuring the club continues to thrive and lead in the competitive environs of elite football. A big thank you to the legend that is David Weir MSD for the invitation (and an awesome dinner with Fabian Hürzeler and so many of our MSDers)

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Mark Batey @drmarkbatey.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Practical Applications: 🚀 Well that would be telling wouldn’t it! But we found some new approaches that will help the club 'Challenge the Establishment'

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Mark Batey @drmarkbatey.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Building a Creative Culture: 🥇 Psychological Safety: Essential for fostering innovation 🥈 Diverse Teams: Mixing roles, departments, and backgrounds to harness diverse strengths 🥉 Role of Leadership and Culture: Aligning people, teams, and systems to support innovation

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Mark Batey @drmarkbatey.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The Workshop: 🏋️‍♀️ Group Challenges: We tackled a real BHAFC challenges to find an extra performance edge 🏋️‍♀️ Innovation Tools: Learned and applied tools such as ‘How to’ framing, the Kipling Method, Picturestorming, Attribute Listing and Dot Voting to generate and refine ideas

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Mark Batey @drmarkbatey.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

We delved into key principles, processes, and practices to boost innovation within the club – and tackled a live challenge at the same time.

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Mark Batey @drmarkbatey.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

⚽️ Creativity and Innovation for High Performance with Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club ⚽️ Delighted to lead a #Creativity and #Innovation Workshop with the senior team members of @officialbha.bsky.social last week.

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Mark Batey @drmarkbatey.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Highlights from our paper on the conditions for Mental Toughness in Women's ⚽️ Published in PLOSOne - doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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Mark Batey @drmarkbatey.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

With Brighton and Hove Albion FC ☺️⚽️ Update incoming next week 🔥@officialbha.bsky.social #ChallengeTheEstablishment #TheSeagulls #InnovationForPerfomance

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Mark Batey @drmarkbatey.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Helping Empower Innovation in Local Government We all know the landscape for government innovation is pretty tough… So I gave a keynote for government leaders 🧵 👇

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Mark Batey @drmarkbatey.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Out today for the #FieldofPlay2025 Sports Analytics Conference. Wonderful to catch up with our @msd-mmu.bsky.social students and grads, meet some old friends… and looking forward to networking and making some new ones. Lots of takeaways for data and innovation #everydayisaschoolday #alwayslearning

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Mark Batey @drmarkbatey.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Delighted to attend the launch of the new Centre of Excellence for Women in Sport at the @manmetuni.bsky.social #InstituteOfSport - a dedicated research centre in partnership with the UK Institute of Sport

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Mark Batey @drmarkbatey.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Looking forward to one of my fave days of the year… travelling down to the #RoyalAirForce #TedderAcademy of #Leadership for my annual masterclass on creativity and innovation with the Senior Leadership Development Programme 🚀🚀🚀

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Mark Batey @drmarkbatey.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Gave up on twitter a while back… looking for accounts about #science #psychology #creativity #innovation and #sportmanagement (Odi and Wicket photo just because ☺️🐶🥰)

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