Step 3: Leading Teams — LifeRoad Leadership Pathway
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The LifeRoad Leadership Pathway
Step Three
Builds on Steps 1 & 2 · Also available as a standalone program

Leading
Teams

Moving from individual leadership to collective alignment.

You can lead yourself. You can lead others. Now comes the greatest challenge — building a team that moves together, trusts each other, holds one another accountable, and consistently delivers results. This two-day program equips leaders to build high-performance teams.

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Format
2-Day Intensive
In-person · Facilitated · Experiential
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Location
Picnic Point Conference Venue
Toowoomba, Queensland
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Designed For
Leaders responsible for a team
Building alignment, culture and collective performance
Includes
Monthly coaching sessions available
To complement and embed your learning

"If it is not clear, it won't happen."

Anchor Truth — Module 3
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Step 1 Mate to Manager
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Step 2 Manager to Leader
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Step 3 Leading Teams
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Step 4 Leading the Organisation

Your team has potential.
But it's not clicking.

You've got capable people. You've done the personal work. But somehow the team as a whole isn't delivering what it should. There's tension under the surface, silos between people, and a culture that's drifting rather than being led.

Moving from leading individuals to leading a team is one of the most overlooked transitions in leadership. Most leaders never get explicit training for it.

  • Your team members work hard individually but don't pull together as a unit
  • There's conflict being avoided — and it's quietly weakening the culture
  • People aren't fully committed to shared goals — they're pursuing personal ones
  • Accountability is inconsistent — some people are held to it, others aren't
  • The vision and expectations aren't as clear to your team as they are to you
  • You're carrying the culture personally — and it won't scale
The Core Issue
"My perspective is not the only reality in the room."

Step 3 moves the work from the individual to the collective. Using the Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team model, culture and values frameworks, and team-level strategy — and grounded throughout in the Killing the CEO lens — this program equips leaders to build teams that trust, engage in healthy conflict, commit to shared goals, hold each other accountable, and consistently deliver results.

What the LifeRoad Logo Means

The arrow meeting the vertical line represents a critical moment — stagnation, setback, or a challenge to navigate. The gap between the arrow and the line is where you are, and where we work. Through partnership and commitment, we create the path towards breakthrough, growth and success.

Two days.
Eight modules.
One aligned team.

Day One — Team Foundations
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Team Awareness — 5 Behaviours
My perspective is not the only reality in the room
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Expectation vs Reality
Expectation minus reality equals suffering
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Clarity & Alignment
If it is not clear, it won't happen
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Systems & Structure
If it all depends on me, it will eventually fail
Day Two — Culture & Direction
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Culture & Values
Culture is what you allow, reward and repeat
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Team Accountability & Conflict
Avoiding conflict weakens culture
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Building a High-Performance Team
A team only wins when it moves together
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Strategy & Vision — Team Level
If people don't see the vision, they won't own the mission

How It's Delivered

Step 3 draws on the Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team framework, culture and values work, team navigation exercises, and high-energy group activities that surface real team dynamics. Every session is facilitated to connect directly to your actual team challenges — not hypothetical ones.

Real shifts.
Not just insights.

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A deep understanding of the Five Behaviours model and how to apply it to your specific team
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Tools to create genuine clarity — roles, expectations, and priorities that your whole team understands
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The ability to intentionally shape your team's culture — not just react to it
Confidence to address team conflict and accountability gaps before they become cultural damage
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A team-level vision and strategy framework that creates direction, alignment and shared ownership
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A 90-day strategic leadership action plan focused on your team's three highest-impact priorities

Who This Is For

Step 3 is built for you if…

  • You lead a team and are responsible for its culture, performance and direction
  • You've completed Steps 1 & 2 — or you're an experienced leader ready to focus on team-level work
  • You're a Christian business owner or leader who wants their team to reflect Kingdom values
  • You sense your team has more potential than it's currently delivering
  • You want to move from managing individuals to building genuine team cohesion
  • You're ready to take ownership of your team's culture — not leave it to chance

This program is not for you if…

You're looking for team-building activities without the deeper leadership and culture work. Step 3 goes well beyond fun exercises — it requires honest assessment of your team's dysfunction and your own role in it.

Program Venue

Picnic Point
Conference Centre

Toowoomba, Queensland
Setting
Scenic escarpment
Catering
Morning tea & lunch included
Space
Dedicated conference rooms
Outdoor
Activity spaces on-site

The perfect setting
for team thinking.

Step 3 makes full use of Picnic Point's outdoor spaces — team navigation exercises, high-energy group activities, and the kind of open environment that gets people out of their silos and working together in ways the office never allows.

The environment matters. When people step out of their normal workplace and into a setting designed for reflection and growth, something shifts. That's intentional.

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Easy access from across the Darling Downs
Toowoomba CBD and surrounds, with accommodation options nearby
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Outdoor activity spaces
Essential for the experiential learning activities woven throughout the program
Morning tea, lunch & afternoon tea provided
Both days, so you can stay fully present in the room
Optional Add-On

Don't just attend the program.
Embed the change.

Monthly coaching sessions are available to complement each step of the program — designed to help you apply what you've learned in the real-world context of your specific role and organisation. Because insight without accountability fades fast.

Monthly 1:1 Coaching · Available with Step 3

Leaders who've been in the room.

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"Best training Council has delivered in 30 years."

Malcolm Jackson · Western Downs Regional Council
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"Well worth the time. Could be life changing to new and old leaders."

Parks & Recreation Team · Western Downs Regional Council
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"Darren's facilitative style and the group exercises fostered a lot of learning and engagement — much more effective than a webinar or lecture."

Sam Wright, Director · Ambrosiussen — The Business Accountants
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"I think what you offer is an authentic opportunity to effect real change in any workplace."

Jocinda Hawkless · NDIA
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"I have done training with Darren before and have seen an improvement in my ability and my team."

Luke Jackson · Western Downs Regional Council
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"Darren's professionalism, attention to detail, and commitment to excellence was impressive. I highly recommend LifeRoad."

Tom Austin · Baptist Care SA
Darren Copland
Darren Copland
Founder & Director · LifeRoad

Darren Copland

Founding Director · LifeRoad Enterprises

Darren brings 25 years of leadership experience — from teaching, to outdoor education facilitation, to a decade as CEO of Emu Gully Adventure Education Group, where he led the organisation through rapid growth, COVID, significant cultural transformation, and eventually, personal burnout.

That journey — including the diagnosis of major depressive disorder and his eventual, complete surrender — became the foundation of both his book and the LifeRoad Leadership Pathway. The team-building frameworks in Step 3 — including the Five Behaviours model and culture-at-scale thinking — were forged through Darren's decade leading a complex, fast-growing organisation through change, conflict, and eventual cultural transformation.

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Author

Killing the CEO — Losing Self, Finding God, Finding Life The book that birthed the LifeRoad Leadership Pathway
Ready to Begin

Ready to build
your best team?

Step 3 works best when attended by leadership teams together — but is equally powerful for individual leaders. Places are limited. Contact Darren to discuss the best approach for your team.

Enquire Now
Or call Darren directly: 0421 665 993
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Our Promise to You

"If you don't walk away with fresh clarity, practical tools and a fresh sense of direction, we'll work with you at no further cost until you do."

And we'll do all of this while having a good laugh along the way.