Belonging: The Ancient Code of Togetherness: The International No. 1 Bestseller

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Belonging: The Ancient Code of Togetherness: The International No. 1 Bestseller

Belonging: The Ancient Code of Togetherness: The International No. 1 Bestseller

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Each episode ends with three key takeaway points for schools. This is the first in a 10-episode series. At a time when it is easy to feel disheartened by sport’s crises of corruption, abuse and burnout, Eastwood offers a compelling vision of what sport can be. Another favourite Eastwood question to ask is “What gets in the way of you being the best version of yourself?” Blasting taboos, Eastwood shows us a clear path to help sport be “the best version” possible for everyone involved and for society more broadly. One of the wisest books about winning you'll ever read... Powerful lessons beautifully expressed' - James Kerr An Us story tends to connect a team to their identity. A major part of the identity story may be the way they responded at a time of adversity - for instance an emotive story from one of the World Wars. It all helps to create a deep sense of belonging and consequently a deep focus on the legacy of the current team. When asked to describe the culture he had observed, he said “there is no coherent culture … the coach is king or queen. If my child was to come here, I would have no clue what their experience would be, it would completely depend on who they end up with as a coach”. Eastwood is clear that this is a failure of leadership at the top, “deferring and subcontracting culture to coaches”.

For Eastwood, that crosses a red line. “I’d hope that people would see Gareth Southgate and Luke Donald and people like that and go: ‘I’d like myself or someone I care about to be in that environment. I think it would be a healthy place for them.”’ Youth suicide is a huge concern in Aotearoa and the world in general. If this book’s concept of belonging and the marvellous metaphor it uses to convey whakapapa could be taught to all children, surely fewer of our rangatahi (precious young) would question their place, their value, their purpose on Earth. And more people would understand their obligation to be 'good ancestors'. In whakapapa terms, as the sun arrives on each generation their high purpose is passed on to them and they ask the question: what do we need to do to promote the wellbeing of our people? Therein lies their mission.We can’t call ourselves successful because we’re ranked No 1 or get a lot of medals when that [long-term mental health issues] is the cost.” He explains the need for leaders in sport to “broaden their definition of success”, connecting with my own work and book that redefines The Long Win. He has recently been asked to work more and more within education, for obvious reasons: as recent research and reports have revealed, more and more pupils and their families - and indeed teachers - feel like they don’t belong in schools. That’s causing huge issues with the attendance and behaviour of pupils, the engagement of parents and the retention and recruitment of staff. Exclusive webinar for schools We do not want our leaders’ personal beliefs forced upon us - we want our tribe’s authentic values articulated. And we don’t want rules - we want values to aspire to that define what it means to be part of our tribe.

Humans need to belong, it is an element of performance. “We try to signal to players that this is a place where you belong. You are respected, this is a safe place, we want you to be yourself and express yourself.” In building teams, leaders need to understand that people are highly tuned to receive the story of Us. Herein lies an opportunity for leaders to connect with and influence teams at a deeper level. Great leaders widen the Us story so that every person in their group feels a genuine sense of belonging. Owen's work and outlook really resonate with me. His philosophy has real depth and value. [It's] so of the moment - at just the right time, at just the right place, with just the right message' - Simon Mundie When our Us story is weak, we are weak. We should talk about how to do tasks, but it’s integral not to forget the what and why too. One of the wisest books about winning you'll ever read...Powerful lessons beautifully expressed.' - James KerrThey display an awareness that we retain the emotional feeling of a first experience much longer than the details of the encounter. The hosts connected immediately with the audience by highlighting a few family members’ birthdays as well as identifying former Royal Marines present. At the end of the ceremony Eastwood was shown a wall where there were photos of each graduating Commando class through the years. The message was clear - we are kin and everyone belongs here. Studies show how storytelling ability enhances a leader’s influence and power through shifting the hormonal state of the group. —> I should find powerful storytellers like Orran and work closely with them. Working with the NATO Command Group, Eastwood invoked whakapapa to reflect on previous NATO Command Groups, looking at the challenges they faced when the sun shone on them and the legacies they ultimately left. They then previewed their own legacy as the sixteenth leadership team and articulated this in writing with a whakapapa legacy statement. We leak energy and focus by obsessing over the unsafe environment and relations around us and the pressure builds.

While the book and Owen are largely oriented around sport teams and situations, ‘Belonging’ is as significant (if not more so) in the realms of the workplace, home and wider whānau (family). It is a phrase I remember Southgate using during his first World Cup campaign as England manager in 2018, confusing journalists who had asked him what success looked like, expecting him to respond with a World Cup finishing position. Eastwood reframes what ambition and success in sport should be.Eastwood believes responsibility for culture must sit at the top of sporting organisations. He argues that boards should be setting the “cultural blueprint” for their sporting environments, not leaving it up to the whims of the latest head coach. Because I’ve not got any baggage about how I was educated or prepared for it, I’ve just had completely fresh eyes, looking carefully at what shifts things and what doesn’t.” Players for a team, for example, may be given their national team shirts and asked to write on them what it personally meant to play for that team. This visual activity is effective. In Māori culture, the principle of Whakapapa places oneself in a wider context that links to land and tribal groupings and heritage. It offers a sense of immortality, attaching ourselves to something permanent in this impermanent world.



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