Leading Teams is committed to, and specialises in, delivering values-based leadership and team development training to elite athletes and sporting organisations. This enhances the athletes’ holistic development, leading to an improvement in team and individual performance.

The following leadership and mentoring program has four (4) key components:

• Aligning Teams

  • Understanding how culture and values effect team performance

  • Developing desired behaviour within the team

  • Analysis of current culture

  • Creation of desired vision

  • Peer performance assessment

  • Planning

  • Effective communication
    
    

• Effective Leadership

  • Elements of effective leadership

  • Impact of culture on performance

  • Strategies for creating functional and effective teams

  • Systems for identifying individual’s roles and responsibilities

  • Honest performance review

  • Motivation and commitment for effecting improvement strategies
    
    

• Mentoring

  • Reviewing individual personal direction

  • Understanding others

  • Building relationships

  • Role of a mentor

  • Role of individual being mentored
    
    

• Personal Development

  • Identifying personal needs

  • Adapting to change

  • Embracing challenges

  • Setting life goals by understanding your own behaviour

  • Discussing personal visions

  • Values

  • Self Image

  • Relationships and individual motivating factors

An integral component of this program will be the provision of facilitator training to the identified senior players who will then work with and mentor other/younger players from the club.

Ray McLean (left) and Gerard Fitzgerald (right) after winning the 2004 Repcol Interstate Challenge against Western Australia