How long does it take to build a strong relationship?
It was a Friday evening and my 5pm flight, from Melbourne returning home to Sydney, was cancelled and I was hoping that I would be bumped to a later flight that night. I had been back and forth to the Airline desk when at around 9pm I finally got my new boarding pass....
read moreRecruiting for your team – why not let your candidates decide who gets the job?
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 for our own team.
Around the square: The behaviours we walk past are the behaviours we accept.
One cold June night, as playing coach of a senior football team, I was getting frustrated by the lack of discipline and poor attitude of the team halfway through the training session. I gave them my observation on training and said ‘look, training isn’t great tonight,...
read moreWhy I keep coming back to Leading Teams
I restarted working with Leading Teams, for the 3rd time last year. Prior to that, I first started with the company as a 21-year-old living in Melbourne. At the time, I was a secondary school teacher and playing for Melbourne Phoenix netball team. During that year,...
read moreA clash of cultural norms
Recently I was facilitating a session in Canberra and saw behaviour that sparked my curiosity. As a group of nine, we were sitting in a circle having a bite to eat. Seven people were sitting in what I’d call a ‘normal’ position: facing each other with legs crossed or...
read moreCreating a safe environment for vulnerability
As part of Bob Murphy’s recent launch of his book, “Leather Soul” he shared his reflections from his Leading Teams experience early on in his career; a three-year journey of creating an environment where open and honest communications are a link to team and individual...
read moreWhat would your Grandmother say?
Normally in my working life, the question of ‘Why do people do what they do?’ would come up when people were not doing the right thing. My standard answer for years was because they can; we let them, you let them, the team lets them, leaders let them or managers let...
read moreRebuilding Southport Sharks in just one season
The Southport Sharks have been the most successful Australian rules football team in Queensland history. They had won 22 premierships in their 57-year history. However, their last was in 2008. So for such a successful club, this drop-in performance was significant...
read moreWhat does your team reward?
Last night I was tempted away from the Block, the Bachelor and some other cooking show to find myself tuning into the 7.30 report and was captured by a story around Australian cricket. Of particular interest, was the current culture and what lead the players to tamper...
read moreLeaders set the tone through their actions
In 2016, I coached the Queensland Under 20’s State of Origin team which included some very good young players that have progressed onto the NRL this year - Brodie Croft (Melbourne Storm), Lachlan Lewis (Canterbury Bulldogs) and Jaydn Su’A (Brisbane Broncos). One of...
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