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...
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...
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...
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...
Working from home has been the new normal for many organisations, and their teams, since early last year as the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way we work. When I coached the Australian Diamonds we had players, coaches, and staff spread out across the country. We were...
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...
This time last year I felt compelled to send cards to about 30 young people who were completing their Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) year. I had been their primary school principal and had seen them joyously graduating from our school in 2014. I wanted to...
Some months ago, a friend asked me what questions he should ask as he and his partner contemplated which secondary school they would send their eldest son to. Having met with literally thousands of parents over 26 years of principalships I came to realise that...
Imagine excluding a candidate simply because of gender! Unthinkable now, but prior to the introduction of legislation in Australia in 1984, that happened every day. Now we cannot envisage that form of discrimination....
Reading two articles that our colleagues Lisa Alexander and Ray McLean recently shared with all at Leading Teams reminded me of the incredible significance of all organisations being very clear about their core purpose; that is why they exist. “Hers was the...
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.