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Why Sustained Success Requires a Different Kind of Energy
Last week Leading Team Australia celebrated our 25th year in business, a significant milestone. Our model has been tested across all industries, team dynamics and with all types of leaders. It got me thinking about how many businesses I have personally had the privilege of working with, in addition to the many clients stories and case studies over the last 25 years in sport, business, education and community organisations. One pattern has always stood out: sustained success doesn’t come from physical, technical or tactical effort alone. Those things matter—but they’re not what holds performance together over the long term. The real energy that sustains high performance comes from somewhere deeper and more emotional. And neuroscience helps explain why. Has anyone in your team ever come across like they are motivated from within? Like their intrinsic motivation has been cultivated from a secret recipe?
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Purpose, Why We Do What We Do.
There is a school of thought that expresses that each of us having an individual purpose can be, and sometimes is, counter-productive to strong team-wide alignment to the common purpose of the organisation. If we work on the premise that our common purpose provides us with the deeper ‘why’ we do what we do, I am of […]
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Finding Purpose and Making It Matter
When people talk about purpose, it often sounds abstract.
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The Power of Purpose – Why Culture Drives Performance
Does investing in culture really drive the bottom line?
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Beginning at Leading Teams
Standing at the front of my house, I check the time on my phone.
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We Were Talking About Psychological Safety Before It Had a Name
At Leading Teams, we’ve spent more than 25 years helping organisations build what’s now widely known as psychological safety.
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Not All Trust is Created Equal
In her book Atlas of the Heart, Brené Brown writes that “trust is more of a cognitive assessment than an emotion”.
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Gossip: A survival instinct that’s hurting your team
When we talk to teams about behaviours that are holding them back, gossip –` “third-party” conversations – is often what they point to.
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Which comes first: Leadership or Culture?
Almost by definition, the appointed leaders of any team have the greatest influence over team members.
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There’s no shortcut to culture…
There’s something special about the culture at both clubs.
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A Personal Journey to High Performance Leadership
We all have defining years in our lives.
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How to give effective feedback: building a culture of continuous improvement
Feedback is the driving force for growth, high-performance and trust-building within relationships and teams.
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20 Leadership Books for High Performing Teams for 2024
Storytelling is critical to the work we do as facilitators at Leading Teams.
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Retaining and Engaging Your Team Through Culture
The competition to retain talent has never been fiercer.
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The connection between culture and retention
This article was first published on Inside Retail Australia.With job mobility at a 9.5% peak for a second year in a row, the highest rate in a decade, leaders everywhere are searching for solutions to help them retain staff.
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How to Get Ahead of the Informal Inductions
This article was first published on the HR Leader website.
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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.
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Lessons from Leaders: How did you get to be the leader you are today?
We asked this straightforward question of Kristen Buik, Executive Director and Chair at Altitude Advisory recently at our Leading Teams Online Leadership Workshop.
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Sharing great stories through Leading Conversations
We are often asked what sets Leading Teams facilitators apart from rest.
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Finding Facilitators
When I joined Leading Teams in 2012 we had 10 facilitators working with a range of different teams and organisations around Australia.
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Victorian Schools Investing in Their People Through High Performance Leadership Programs
Currently in Northern Victoria something special is happening in Education.
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A Trek to Raise Awareness and Much Needed Funds for Duchenne Australia
On November 11th, the Leading Teams team will be embarking on a 26km walk along the coastal trek in Royal National Park south of Sydney.
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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.
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Staying Power: How an investment in workplace culture can solve staff shortage issues
It is a great time for organisations and their teams.
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Celebrating High Performing Leaders and Teams
On Thursday 19th May at the Sheraton Grand in Sydney, Leading Teams gathered our clients, network and team together to host our High Performance Awards for 2022.
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Leading Teams Appoints New CEO
Leading Teams is entering its next chapter as an organisation announcing Dean Anderson as their new CEO.
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Aligned Teams Perform Better Under Pressure
IMAGE: Richmond Valley Council team cleaning up after the floods.
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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.
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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.
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Client Stories: I know my rights!
A little while ago I was making a visit to some close friends who live in Sydney.
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Are your teams’ values really valued?
What are your organisation’s values, and who really values them?
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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.
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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.
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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 we work with – the cylinder model. The cylinder […]
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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.
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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.
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The little things that create significant change
Imagine excluding a candidate simply because of gender!
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Investing in People and Culture
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.
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A Time For Genuine Conversations
‘When we share we heal, reconnect and grow’ – Grace Tame, National Press Club of Australia I know I am late to the party in celebrating our current Australian of the Year, Grace Tame, for her honesty and bravery in stepping up and speaking out about the abuse she suffered.
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Why do teams review?
Anyone who follows professional sport will have heard about the post-match review.
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Culture follows Purpose
I have always believed that the signs of outstanding leadership will always be displayed in the behaviours of the followers.
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The life of every man is a diary
“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.” J.M.
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Who can you really trust in your team?
Three weeks after the COVID pandemic hit Australia earlier this year, I had a conversation with Mary Campbell, the CEO at TAFE Queensland, that has stuck with me.
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Lisa Alexander joins Leading Teams
We are pleased to announce that Lisa Alexander has joined Leading Teams in the role of High Performance Expert.
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Diversity and Inclusion – A Powerful Combination
This article was written by Anna Sallows and Daniel Healy.
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We can’t all play a winning game
This article originally appeared in The Ballarat Courier Many parallels between sport and business exist.
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Quality leaders are essential to improving employee engagement
The strength of relationships within an organisation can have a direct impact on the bottom line.
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The first questions that any under performing team needs to answer
I’m not a Queenslander. When I moved here three years ago, it was made very clear to me that it would take anywhere between ten to twenty years up here to never to be fully accepted – all with tongues firmly in cheeks, but there was something in it.
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Where to from here?
Australia has, by most measures, succeeded in “flattening the curve”.
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Want to make your team happier? Fix your meetings
Once upon a time, I was part of a team that disliked meetings so much we went to pretty extreme measures to cut them short.
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How Do You Define Winning?
I have, until recently, spent 4 seasons working with the Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League, and have also had the opportunity to work with the Sydney Swans in the AFL for a number of years. The difference this weekend between the two clubs brings home the point, very strongly, that High Performance is not […]
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Is Your Team Working in Silos?
Often in our line of work, when we go in to meet with CEOs, managing directors and business owners to help them improve performance, we will ask: ‘What is your pain point at the moment?’ or ‘What is currently holding you back?
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How long does it take to build a strong relationship?
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Recruiting for your team – why not let your candidates decide who gets the job?
We have recently recruited a new facilitator in Sydney.
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Rebuilding Southport Sharks in just one season
The Southport Sharks have been the most successful Australian rules football team in Queensland history.
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What’s Your Legacy?
Leading Teams facilitator, Tim Ferguson, reflects on how your personal trademark can help shape the legacy you leave as a leader and as a person.
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Would Your Team Pass the Pressure Test?
The real test of your team culture is how you behave under pressure.
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Choosing Your Own Leaders: How to Select Your New Executive Team
Leading Teams facilitator, Justin Peckett, and MD of Plan B Group, Peter Brenchley, share their experiences of selecting a new executive for Plan B.
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Culture and Leadership: Their Impact on Performance
Facilitator Justin Peckett uses the Leading Teams Cylinder Model to explain the impact that team culture and leadership can have on overall performance.
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How Do You Respond to Feedback?
Facilitator Jake Bridges reflects on the importance of feedback and his own experiences receiving feedback in a recent peer review.
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What’s Your Leadership Style?
Facilitator Simon Fletcher explores the need for leaders to adapt their style, using the Situational Leadership Model as inspiration.
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What Leadership Traits Do You Admire?
Following a recent discussion about how to be a good leader, Leading Teams facilitators share the leadership traits they most admire.
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Self-Talk: Whether You Think You Can or Think You Can’t, You’re Right
Facilitator Clara McCormack explains the concept of self-talk, its relevance to leadership and why constructive self-talk is so important.
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Counterproductive Behaviour: Address It or Avoid It?
Counterproductive behaviour is common in teams.
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What Does a High Performing Team Look Like?
Every leader wants their team to perform well.
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Behavioural Frameworks in Business: What, Why and How?
Behavioural frameworks are a cornerstone of the Leading Teams model.
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The Different Levels of Relationships
Research shows us that having friends at work is important.
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The Importance of Happiness in the Workplace
For a long time, work and happiness weren’t strongly associated with each other.
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3 Common Obstacles to Organisational Change and How to Overcome Them
Change is an inevitable, but challenging, part of any business's lifecycle.
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Are You Committed To Your Team, Or Are You Just Involved?
What separates a good team from a great team?
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Checking In With Your Team
How often do you check in with your team to see how they're going outside work?
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Character vs. Competence: Which Would You Choose?
I recently read an article by Amy Cuddy, a Harvard psychologist who specialises in first impressions, in which she defines that people judge you on two characteristics when they first meet you: 1. Trust – can I trust this person?
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Australian Organisations’ Mission Statements Fail to Inspire their Staff
Nearly half of Australian employees don’t know their company’s mission statement and set of values, the findings from a new survey released today has revealed.
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The Importance Of Having Strong Professional Relationships
Building relationships allows you to begin to create an organisational framework and, ultimately, your culture.
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