What are your organisation’s values, and who really values them? The past 18 months have thrown up challenges for teams that we haven’t encountered in the past which provides a great opportunity to review. Grab your organisation’s values and read...
This week we say farewell to a much-loved team member, our Head of Business Growth, Guy Redhouse. As always at Leading Teams, this provides us with an opportunity to review, and to highlight one of the key models we utilise – both ourselves, and with teams...
Three weeks after the COVID pandemic hit Australia earlier this year, I had a conversation with Mary Campbell, the CEO at TAFE Queensland, that has stuck with me. They were at the beginning of the process of transitioning a large percentage of their 4,000+ staff to...
We have recently recruited a new facilitator in Sydney. I found the experience both rewarding and inspiring, so I thought I would share it with you. The Leading Teams model is about empowerment and we apply our model to everything we do, including finding new members...
Watching the Liberal Leadership spill unfold last Friday on the ABC was compelling viewing. Throughout the coverage I heard a number of journalists and ex-Politicians referring to the Liberal Party as ‘the team’, which I found really interesting given what...
Next time you want to take the opportunity to reflect on how you are going as a leader, I suggest you try this. Close your eyes and imagine you are observing your own funeral. Who would be delivering your eulogy and what would they say about you? Confronting?...
Resilience, in both teams and leaders, is a key ingredient in high performance, but what is it really, and how can you build it both as a leader and in your team? To use a common definition – resilience is the ability to adapt and bounce back when things...
In his February 2017 article about Hawthorn Football Club selecting their leadership group, Leadership Selection: the Pivotal Link Between Culture and Performance, Ray McLean posed an interesting question: “Is it possible that we could put the same rigour and...
When asked the question ‘what behaviours exist in your team that are counterproductive to high performance?’, most team members tend to have a good sense of what they think is unhelpful. Knowing this is useful, but unless they are willing to do something...
High performance teams are the standard to which every business aims to meet. By definition, these teams are made up of highly focused, highly skilled and hyper-aligned employees. If you can achieve the status of a high performance team, business success is basically...
Using candid case studies from teams who have implemented Ray McLean’s no-nonsense Performance Improvement Program, this book explains how the program can work for all kinds of teams, big or small, sporting or corporate.