Craig McRae - Premiership winning Head coach - Leadership playbook series

About this episode

Craig McRae shares his leadership insights and experiences as a premiership winning head coach in the AFL.

In this Leadership Playbook Series we will bring to you championship winning leaders across different sports. This episode we bring to you AFL premiership winning head coach with Collingwood FC - Craig McRae. Craig has won multiple premierships as a player, as an assistant coach, as a head coach at different levels and the ultimate prize as a head coach of an AFL premiership. Craig shares valuable insights in leadership to help you on your own journey but also shares valuable lessons from leaders who helped guide him. This was such an enjoyable episode to record with such a great leader. One clear highlight is the love he has for his players and staff and so much more . Enjoy the episode and we wish you the best on developing your own leadership playbook. We appreciate any shares to help grow the channel and any follows and shares across socials.

People in this episode

Guest: Craig McRae

Topics covered

• leadership
• AFL
• sports coaching
• team management

Keywords

• premiership
• Collingwood FC
• championship
• leadership playbook

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