b'WHAT IT TAKES TO BUILD OR REMAKE A WORLDCLASS TEAMMcKinsey & Company interviewed 25 of the most ambitious and successful administrators, coaches, and players at professional and collegiate athletic programs across the United States about their winning formulas for building and reinventing their teams. Four themes emerged:Set a standard for the program that clearly establishes objectives. These leaders create a culture where every teammate walks the talk, even when no one is watching. Build a team with a diverse set of leadership skills and functional capabilities. These leaders dont just look for the best players, but the right players who will help win. Create a playbook for optimizing team performance. These leaders clearly and purposefully codify how the work gets done and emphasize consistency at every level of operations.Establish an edge and confidence that sets the team apart. These leaders explore every possible angle to elevate the confidence and skills of everyone in the program.These four principles can help nonprofit leaders build successful teams, turn around low performers, and ultimately create more value over the long term. Source: www.mckinsey.comEXERCISE AIDS IN ADDICTION RECOVERY According to a recent Psychology Today article, addiction changes the brain, body, and behavior. Persistent insomnia, cravings, depression, and anxiety may continue for months after sobriety, often leading to relapse. Research has shown that regular exercise helps considerably with addiction recovery, as well as with anxiety and depression. For example, research reveals that actively exercising just 1020 minutes a day reduces powerful nicotine cravings and withdrawal symptoms immediately. Exercise has also shown promise for aiding in cocaine and methamphetamine stimulant use disorders. For alcohol use disorder, researchers have found that exercise reduces craving and withdrawal severity. Preclinical lab studies from the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Buffalo, New York, have provided compelling evidence that aerobic exercise is effective as an adjunctive, relapsepreventive intervention in addiction. Exercise helps normalize dopamine and physiological and behavioral stress responses and reduces stress hormones while easing withdrawalrelated anxiety and negative affect. Exercise helps reset the brains pleasure system, reversing anhedonia (lack of emotion), improving sleep, controlling anxiety and depression, and reducing addictive cravings. Source: www.psychologytoday.comNOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2025WWW.CITYGATENETWORK.ORG 55'