Feature
Issue No. 40 - April/ /
Experience Team Power first hand
It’s said the crucible of AFL competition turns boys into men very quickly and there’s a lesson for business in that. How do you turn a gang of raw recruits into a smooth machine capable of taking on all comers?
Port Adelaide Football Club startled the big league last year when Mark Williams’ very young team won through to the Grand Final years ahead of schedule.
The Power’s GM - Commercial Operations, Steve Olech says the club was on a developmental fast track last year. The club had the second-youngest list in the AFL and there was no option but to develop leadership qualities quickly.
It’s a club expectation that the players are expected to grow into leadership roles and all the responsibility they entail. The Power’s management lets the players shoulder that responsibility.
“We spend a lot of time working as a team,” Steve says. “Developments from the leadership program are taken into the AFL competitive environment.
“We’re not just theoretical - we take what the players say seriously.”
The club’s ‘team first’ motivational strategy is the key to success, Steve says. Team commitment, how you function within the team, is paramount.
The result, Steve says, is the players quickly develop character and consistency in their own performance and that of the team.
The Power offers the benefit of this experience as a business development service. David Arnfield, the Power Assistant Fitness Coach and qualified corporate Training Facilitator spends half his time managing the Power’s corporate training program which offers a suite of three basic products that are variations on the ‘Team First’ theme.
The introduction offering is Power Corporate Training, a half-day experience at Allan Scott Power Headquarters delivered by Power performance coach David Arnfield. During the session David covers 30 to 50 points in the areas of vision and goal s...
