Our Spirit Blog - Kokoda Track

The Diggers of Kokoda when interviewed about leadership, offered their well thought out views as to what are the key components of great Leadership. Having risked their all in so many theatres of war they offered some good old fashioned down to earth advice on how to be good leader.

With a major focus of staying in the present the Kokoda Track teaches you to set goals that you can achieve now. The track does require you to set a high standard of discipline and adherence to those standards throughout the time frame of the trek in order to be successful.

Often people forget the reach of influence they have on others, and this story proves that point. When an isolated village in PNG can put a game of Rugby League on and rollout "Darren Lockyer" imagine the influence on Australian kids, who follow these icon types closest movements.

One of the most interesting feedback we get is from clients habitually telling us that participating in the Kokoda Track in its pure and isolated environment allowed them the opportunity to break habits.

Aidan had the great opportunity of walking the Kokoda Track with a great group of Indigenous people, who shared their culture and learnings with him, as they followed in the footsteps of lesser known Indigenous soldiers who fought on the Kokoda Track. It was part of a Leadership course that has gone on to make a huge positive contribution to making this country great. One of the requests at the end was to see the Flag fly at arguably one of Australia's most important battle sites.