Rebuilding 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...
Would Your Team Pass the Pressure Test?
When is the culture of an organisation put to its ultimate test? It’s a question we regularly ask our clients at Leading Teams. The answer is always the same. “When we are under pressure.” Indeed, if we accept that any culture is defined by the way...
Culture and Leadership: Their Impact on Performance
The situation that Cricket Australia, the Test Team and several of their senior leaders found themselves in in South Africa has been a timely and very public reminder to leaders from all types of teams and industries just how important the role of culture and...
Counterproductive Behaviour: Address It or Avoid It?
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...
What Does a High Performing Team Look Like?
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...
Behavioural Frameworks in Business: What, Why and How?
Behavioural frameworks play a big role in what we do at Leading Teams. That’s because when we can align our behaviours with our core values, we can better manage expectations, relationships and overall performance. For over two decades we’ve been...
Can You Really Change Your Employees’ Behaviour?
From smoking cigarettes to late-night snacking – we all have our fair share of bad habits. And while you may have tried your hardest to quit, chances are it took a few times to break the pattern. That’s because there is something inherently gruelling about...
The Importance of Happiness in the Workplace
For a long time, work and happiness weren’t strongly associated with each other. Work was a place where you were meant to come in, get the job done and clock out. Happiness was for your free time. However, we now know just how important it is for...
Are You Committed To Your Team, Or Are You Just Involved?
At Leading Teams we work with our clients to help them build high performance teams – or great teams – and we are often asked, “What separates good teams from great teams?” The answer is simple – commitment. In my early days at Leading...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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