October 2, 2017
Leading Teams Australia

How to Lead the Team You Inherit

Leading Teams’ Ray McLean spoke to CEO Magazine about the challenges and solutions of leading a team you inherit, not one you recruit.

Leading Teams founder, Ray McLean, was interviewed recently for an article in CEO Magazine entitled, How to Lead the Team You Inherit.

Ray McLean
Ray McLean

In it, Ray discusses the importance of attending to the environment and the culture of your new team, and warns of the dangers of bringing former colleagues from previous roles in to leadership positions, commenting, “that potentially has a very divisive effect.”

He goes on to stress the need to set ground rules about the behaviours you will and won’t accept in the team – as espoused in our High Performance Model.

You can read the full article on the CEO Magazine website.

Ray is an accomplished speaker on the topic of leadership, culture change and team development. To book Ray as a guest speaker for your conference or event, please give us a call on 03 9654 3744.

 

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