Victorian Schools Investing in Their People Through High Performance Leadership Programs
Currently in Northern Victoria something special is happening in Education. Since 2019, 6 schools from 3 different sectors (state, catholic and private) have committed to a yearly High-Performance Leadership Program for their staff, to help sharpen their leadership...
Develop Your Own Personal Trademark
At the start of the year many of us would have formulated new years’ resolutions – things we want to do better in the coming 12 months. How are they going so far? Often, keeping those resolutions can be a challenge. Why? Because we tend to focus our...
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...
21 Leadership Books for High Performing Teams
Storytelling is critical to the work we do as facilitators at Leading Teams. It allows us to build relationships and show empathy with the team we’re working with by sharing our own experiences and helps people to learn through the messages in the story. I have...
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...
Developing a culture that helps the least abled to thrive
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...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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