This is the text of a speech I gave to the annual supper of the Oakfield Parkonians Cricket Club in 2015. Founded in 1906 as an Old Boys Association, the Club changed its name in 2014 to reflect changing membership and also to stake a claim to our home ground, Oakfield Playing Fields, at the …
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on culture – core values and clear purpose
I have just listened to a webinar by Dr Wade Gilbert, hosted by Human Kinetics, in which Dr Gilbert presented a toolkit to help make adherence to the core values central to the culture of the team or organisation – to “normalise the abnormal”, as he put it. define & repeatedly articulate the core values actively …
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Team building – numbers and culture
Your pre-season planning will be well in hand, now, I’m sure. Winter nets in full swing, working parties planned to spruce up the pavilion and repair the sight screens, grant applications in place. It will soon be time to think about selecting the team for the first fixtures. How many players do you need? The obvious …
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