🤝 First Team Mentality

For leadership teams ready to prioritise collective success over individual wins.

🧭 About the Squad Analysis

The Squad Analysis helps leadership teams spot the patterns and habits that shape how they work together. It focuses on five core themes that matter most for high-performing teams:

First Team Mentality

Communication & Conflict

Shared Direction

Clarity of Role & Responsibility

Leadership Rhythm

Each theme highlights the invisible stuff, the habits, defaults, and tensions that affect how well your leadership team performs as a unit. This resource focuses on First Team Mentality and offers simple ways to build better habits as a collective.

👀 What You Might Be Seeing

🚩 Feedback gets softened or skipped when it’s about someone else’s area.

🚩 Leadership meetings feel more like status updates than team problem-solving.

🚩 Department priorities get more airtime than shared leadership goals.

🚩 Decisions don’t always stick, some leaders quietly go their own way.

🚩 Collective wins rarely get spotlighted; the focus stays on individual success.

If these sound familiar, your leadership team might be acting more like a group of individuals than a united squad.

📈 Why This Matters

You don’t need ten standout leaders, you need one standout leadership team. If your leaders act like department heads first, you’ll always struggle with alignment, accountability, and trust.

🏛️ Three Team Habits to Build

They’re about rewiring how your team shows up for each other. Pick one to focus on over the next few weeks and see how it shifts your team’s mindset.

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Before you dive in, set a clear expectation as a team: The leadership team and the wider business is your first priority. That means showing up with a shared purpose, backing each other, and making decisions that benefit the whole, not just your area.

1. Set the Tone at the Table

Every conversation is a chance to reinforce team-first thinking. When discussions drift into silos or turf-defending, pause and ask:

"Right now, are we solving this as a leadership team or as individual functions?"

2. Shared Wins, Shared Credit

Start building a habit of recognising team-level progress. At the end of each week, reflect together:

"What’s one thing we achieved as a leadership team this week?"

Write it down. Celebrate it. Repeat

3. Rotate the Lens

Start each meeting with a different leader sharing what they think the team needs most right now not just their area.

🧠 Keep the Momentum

Team Challenge: At your next leadership meeting, score yourselves 1–5 on:

"How well are we acting as a leadership team first?"

Then talk about what’s helping and what’s getting in the way.

💡 Pro tip: The goal isn’t perfection it’s progress. This only works if you do it together.

More about me!

I’m Claire, founder of Impactful People, straight-talking leadership consultant, and firm believer that the best teams don’t just work together, they win together.

My background spans criminal law, international sport, tech, people, and leadership roles in fast-growing businesses. That journey means I understand what it’s like to lead through mess, pace, and pressure and how lonely it can feel when you’re the one everyone’s looking to for answers.

I bring empathy, clarity, challenge, and structure. I help leadership teams get aligned, build trust, and make decisions that actually stick. This isn’t about heroic leadership. It’s about the power of the collective. When leaders show up for each other, the whole business moves forward.

If you want a more cohesive, confident, and accountable leadership team that’s not just surviving the day-to-day but driving your business forward, you’re in the right place.