Team Culture.

9th December 2010

Back on my favourite subject this week, sport. What a great result for the England cricket side, showing once again the merits of creating a strong team. Everyone playing for each other, everyone clearly pleased for each other’s success, and having fun. It just shows how much can be achieved by creating a culture which supports this.

Interestingly the Australian team still shows a strong culture even in its demise. The opening batman (Katich) even though injured refused to let someone else take his place, stating it was “his job”, and therefore couldn’t let his team down. The wisdom of whether this made real sense or not in terms of the match is a different question, but the culture of responsibility and doing what is expected of you for the team is clearly still a big part of the Australian set up.

Many people (me included) have questioned whether the ego of Kevin Pieterson is really good for the English team, despite his undoubted talent. However, I detected a real change in attitude and general approach to the game and his team, which would seem to indicate that he has genuinely taken on the culture that is inherent throughout, and which clearly helps to make their “workplace” somewhere they all want to be.

So based on what we have already seen and heard from this series, what will be the outcome? Two teams with strong cultures, but the body language and what is being said is clearly by far the more positive in the England camp. As we all know, body language and words spoken can be very revealing, and at the moment Australia look and sound beaten. I expect England to go on and win at least 2 more, so 3 – 0 or perhaps even 4 – 0, who knows. Ever the optimist, but I can still dream!

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3 responses to “Team Culture.”

1. Gareth Jones says:

   December 9, 2010 at 1:50 pm

   I agree wholeheartedly, this looks like the best team we have fielded since I can remember in terms of team work and team spirit. Maybe the coach and the captain will write a book giving us some indication of how this was achieved. If so, it could be of immense use to business.

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