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All Blacks! Benchmark performance

Just getting by’ is not good enough. This case study shares high-performance ingredients to help you shape team and organisational culture.

How did this team maintain an unprecedented win ratio for more than a decade?

Culture. Leadership. Habits. Execution. The ingredients that always needed to count as the final whistle blew…

Since winning the first Rugby World Cup (RWC) in 1987, the All Blacks had consistently been the top rugby side in the world, yet they were unable to claim the RWC title again for the next five tournaments. In 2007, they suffered their worst RWC defeat ever (to the French in the quarter finals).

How did a team, who by 2007 had lost five World Cup titles in a row, go on to achieve World Cup victories in 2011 and 2015, with an unprecedented win ratio over 14 years?

A blueprint for high performance and culture change

By changing their game plan, the All Blacks changed how the game was played. This case study takes you behind the scenes, onto the field and into the locker room, to explore how the All Blacks redefined themselves, how their actions followed suit and what the results were.


“Better People Make Better All Blacks.” Their mantra is central to exploring the team identity that takes shape as the All Blacks redesign themselves for incredible success. Leading by example, we look at the leaders and their decision to change – and we see the impact of this change cascade across the entire team. We follow their journey of building game-specific skill sets that ensure the team is able to overcome struggles, adapt, reset and improve to achieve great performance.

“Successful leaders balance pride with humility: absolute pride in performance; total humility before the magnitude of the task.” – James Kerr 

Ignite team and leadership conversations

  • How does culture and an enabling environment help teams achieve and sustain consistently superior performance?
  • How would teams benefit from empowering strong leadership, self-leadership and personal change?
  • How are biases affecting our judgment and decision making?
  • How do you respond when things go wrong or don’t go to plan?
  • What habits for high performance would help uplift team performance?

Format and Approach

Engage your teams in a multimedia, facilitator-led conversation on Zoom, supported with interactive moderated conversations in breakout rooms (hosted by our team of Pod Coaches).

Duration

This case study is available in a 90-minute or 180-minute online (Zoom) format.

How does it work?

  • Contact us to let us know that you want LRMG to share this case study with your team
  • We will work with you to design or customise key conversation and reflection questions
  • Participants will get a link to a pre-case study primer to complete prior to the presentation and conversation
  • Your team will receive our Blue Head/Red Head! Toolkit as a take-away to ignite further learning and reflection

“A fresh perspective on how powerful culture is in winning organisations.”

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IGNITE

Career Dreams

Fast track career growth in the new world of work:

Certified learning paths that build relevant skills and competencies

Invigorate your skills development offering:

University-certified online and blended short learning courses

Rapidly improve your scorecard metrics:

B-BBEE (South Africa) and other scorecard solutions

Trusted certification:

Digitally enabled learning solutions supported by dedicated teams of Wits, Queen's University Belfast, UFS and GIBS academics and experience managers

Real-world scarce skills training for youth:

Find, recruit and custom train youth to your demand-led specs, getting them work-ready and employable

Learnerships:

We find the talent, match personalities and abilities to your culture fit, and then train them to meet your digital skills needs

Comply with your B-BBEE, transformation and skills levy agenda:

Rapidly improve your scorecard metrics: create a talent pipeline for 4IR, ICT and Tech-future Skills

Work-ready graduates and interns:

We find the candidates (or you find them). We train them to use your technology and digital systems within the defined roles

GROW

Sales and Unlock Customer Value

Discover why your customers buy what they buy:

Learn to meet customers’ social, emotional and functional requirements

Activate and strengthen sales team engagement:

Digital sales activation challenges

Cultivate a performance-based sales culture:

Sales leadership and culture solutions

Mobilise the right sales strategy:

Sales strategy validation and optimisation

Accelerate sales pipelines and spark growth:

Customer-centric sales strategy

Grow and sustain critical sales capabilities:

Digital learning content for Sales

INSPIRE

People Productivity

Engage for sustainable high performance:

Human capital strategy, learning strategy and transformation

Future-fit your organisation for success:

Learning and talent assessments, talent management and people balance sheet planning

Connect learning journeys to performance outcomes:

Onboarding, talent development and learning mapped to your individual and company needs

Move the needle on learning experiences:

Smart learning and talent experience platforms, tools and digital learning assets

Upskill people with new digital smarts:

Digital learning content (customised or plug-and-play)

NURTURE

A Performance Culture

Talent management:

Make better future-fit data-driven decisions for your talent and organisation

Strategy and change:

Inspire your people to change and ignite their passion to deliver business results

Leadership and culture:

Enable your leadership teams to create their unique brand and to build new high-performance habits and behaviours

Digital transformation:

Enable people processes through digital technologies that transform performance

Talent assessments:

Better understand your people's strengths and your team’s productive habits to compete and win

Performance enablement:

Create a culture of feedback that actively measures performance

SHIFT

Leadership Perspectives

Establish a high-performance culture:

Interactive multimedia inspirational stories

Unlock new thinking and shift mindsets:

More than 13 intriguing true stories of high performance

Empower leaders and teams:

Expertly facilitated moderated conversations

Build new habits for high performance:

Smart toolboxes to activate habits for success