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...
How to successfully lead a remote team
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...
Farewell to Guy Redhouse
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...
Authoring My Own Future
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...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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