Leading Teams is committed to, and specialises in, delivering values-based leadership and team development training to elite athletes and sporting organisations. This enhances the athletes' holistic development, leading to an improvement in team and individual performance.

The following components form the leadership and mentoring program:

Effective Leadership

Effective Leadership is about maximising team and organisation performance. This program provides the necessary tools in order to assist in achieving such an outcome.

This program examines:

• What is Effective Leadership?
  
• Impact of Culture on performance
  
• Creating functional teams
  
• Honest Performance Review
  
• Motivation for commitment to improvement strategies
  

Aligning Teams

The role of effective teams is to create functional dynamics within groups that produces maximum returns. Synergy within relationships is a focus for the Aligning teams program.

This program examines:

• Culture & Core Values
  
• Developing the Team
  
• Team Member Skills
  
• Relationship building
  
• Dealing with conflict
  

Aligning teams program includes:

• Understanding how culture and values effect performance
  
• Developing desired behaviour within the team
  
• Analysis of current culture
  
• Creation of desired vision
  
• Planning
  
• Leading & developing a team
  
• Relationship building
  
• Peer Performance Assessment
  
• Self Improvement Planning
  
• Effective Communication
  

Coaching & Mentoring

The role of coaching and mentoring is to improve an individual's performance. This program provides
invaluable skills and strategies to implement to achieve this.

This program examines:

• Personal direction (Vision & Values)
  
• Understanding individuals
  
• Building relationships
  
• Mentor & Mentee roles
  

Coaching & Mentoring program includes:

• Personality profiling
  
• Challenging existing behaviours
  
• Values based relationship building
  
• Managing boundaries
  
• Establishing Improvement Strategies
  

Leading Teams at the Western Bulldogs

The Leading Teams Program was introduced to the Western Bulldogs in late December 2007, in preparation for the 2008 Season. The players, coaches, and team management have been extremely open to the change and have embraced the principals that the program requires.

The program has been a success from the outset and has provided a professional frame work for our staff and players. Our leadership group have continued to develop as leaders under this program and the entire playing group have grown through this leadership.

Leading Teams has enabled our players, coaches, and management to work in an environment that encourages you to evaluate your actions, receive and give honest feedback and develop and aspire to carry out your organisations expectations.

Overall this has had an enormous positive effect on our club and we look forward to continuing to develop this program and integrating its philosophies and part of our organisational culture.

James Fantasia
General Manager Football
WESTERN BULLDOGS