We can learn so much about leading a business from a Surf Club operation. Learning how to lead through challenging times and building attractive and magnetic cultures.

Outside work hours I enjoy belonging to my local surf club. Community is important to the Mondo Search team. Last year our surf club won best club on the Northern Beaches and one of the reasons for this was the positive culture and the leadership. Today more than ever good leadership and a positive corporate culture are needed to navigate business through uncertain business times. Volunteer organisations like surf clubs often have to creatively inspire people to volunteer their time and provide an attractive environment.

At Wazza Surf Club our Club President will make himself available to listen to everybody and he will send personal messages to people, often not in a good space. I sadly lost my little brother 2 years ago and our President was very quick to make the time to call me and check in after my brother’s memorial service. Our Club President is hands-on and walks alongside people. He would not ask someone to do something that he would not do himself. He looks for leaders and skills across the community and engages talents, involving people in his planning and roadmap ahead. He gets to know people and what motivates them.

He has a wealth of corporate leadership experience and he brings many systems of smart operations to the club for best practice. As we can learn from a community volunteer organisation, so too the skills we learn in the corporate world can be so gratefully received in a community volunteer organisation.

The club has a good culture, minimal politics and is family support-focused. Many tenured hours are enlisted by volunteers due to the magnetism of the surf club culture, with great leaders providing mentors to young men and women. Training is regular and updating skills is a leading priority. The Club members feel a strong sense of belonging and a positive future, not to mention they focus on strong life-saving skills and fitness to boot!

 These cultural traits are vital for any thriving business. Your workplace is often a “ Family of choice” and psychological safety is the number one requirement for employee engagement today. Ensure you have sound training for your leaders in having safe conversations and ensuring when a team member is not OK,  that they know how to support them.

As CEO and or a Leader in business, during these unpredictable days, you will no doubt be thinking of how you can you do things differently, and how you can be the best leader possible. I hope some of these insights in running a volunteer organization will help you in leading a business through ambiguous times. Building best practice culture with mentoring and good leaders to inspire and positively engage your teams.

I will leave you with a video of a recent rescue by my Surf Club, it is such a testament to passionate volunteers and strong clear leadership! https://fb.watch/aIWIIRSKFH/

We welcome anytime a call or email, as we would love to hear your news. or link you to experts to run ” Safe Conversations ” training for your leaders.

Please email our long-standing and trusted Head of Research: Carmela@mondosearch.com.au

or call 1300 737 917

Sincerely,

The Mondo Search Team

About 20% of employees leave within their first 45 days of employment. Nearly 30% of jobseekers left their jobs within the first 90 days of employment (according to Work Institutes retention report).

Many leaders and businesses do not appreciate the significant mental health issues that are created for both the new starter, the Manager, and the existing team members when a new starter begins their onboarding process, it can be a stressful time and also a time of grieving the last role that they were in, letting go and adapting to the new career opportunity. Some people adapt more easily than others. Yes it can be exciting, but the huge uncertainty about the new role, the new manager, the new systems, and the new relationships place a huge stress load on the new starter.

If the new incumbent does not have well developed self-awareness and emotional regulation skills, then this high stress load impacts on their full brain capability, which affects their ability to learn, ramp up fast, develop effective working relationships and enjoy the new role.

At Mondo Search we care about finding good people for good we care to the core and have partnered with a professional in his field to provide a service to teach leaders how to induct well and to support new hires into the organisation.

Please call us for more information and we can line up a presentation of how we can support your organisation to provide professional induction experiences

Key Learning Outcomes

1.New starters – Understanding the mental health challenges of anxiety, anger, depression and stress 

2.The impact on the team – how to build inclusion

3.The critical role of the Manager – balancing the development of the new starter – too tight or too loose.

For more information please email carmela@mondosearch.com.au our Head of Research and Client Services.

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