How to Get Ahead of the Informal Inductions
This article was first published on the HR Leader website. Introducing new employees into an organisation is an exciting time – it signals both progress and change, writes Dean Anderson. Induction is one of the most important components of talent acquisition. As...
Celebrating 20 years of partnership with the Sydney Swans
When Ray McLean, co-founder of Leading Teams, first started working with organisations to help them become high performing he held the view that his time with them had an expiry date. His view was that, ‘we help them (teams) to set the culture and then...
Finding Facilitators
When I joined Leading Teams in 2012 we had 10 facilitators working with a range of different teams and organisations around Australia. Over the past 10 years that number has grown to 23, and we continuing to grow specifically expanding our team in Sydney. When COVID...
Connecting to our Common Story
Hearing the often overwhelming stories being shared about the inimitable Archie Roach in recent days has caused me to consider the crucial place that “story” plays in all of our lives and organisations. In Archie Roach’s superb autobiography,...
Staying Power: How an investment in workplace culture can solve staff shortage issues
It is a great time for organisations and their teams. They face the ‘great resignation’, the ‘great attraction’, the ‘great attrition’ or perhaps the ‘great re-evaluation’. These terms have become the new vocabulary to...
Aligned Teams Perform Better Under Pressure
IMAGE: Richmond Valley Council team cleaning up after the floods. Organisations, well everyone really, has been tested in the last 2 years with the COVID pandemic changing the way we live and work. In addition to this, a large chunk of the east coast of Australia have...
Rewarding our best teammate – The Sally McLean Award
Our Sally McLean Award is named after the late wife of our co-founder, Ray McLean who passed away six years ago, after an eight-year battle with cancer. Sally lived her life deeply committed to helping others, serving her community, and bringing out the best in...
Are your teams’ values really valued?
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...
Unleashing the talent that surrounds us
In his book, “The Element” the late and truly brilliant educator, author, speaker and leader, Sir Ken Robinson wrote a rather bemusing story about Paul McCartney’s education. McCartney was a student at the Liverpool Institute and despite his...Any Given Team
Understand the model that has helped some of Australia's elite sporting teams and corporate leaders achieve success.
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Team Work
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.
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