The new managers Daniel Fåhraeus and Anders Byström led the day and it was also the first time they met the national team as a group.
- What is important is that we are a group that works together towards a goal and then you have to have guidelines and rules of play that make it work well. The job that is being done is rooted in the riders and what they want to stand for and work towards. So not only do we in management just decide something, says Byström.
"We need some time"How do you experience cohesion in the group?
- We are 22 in total here and this is a new group. We need some time for it to feel like a big cohesion, but I already feel that everyone is very tagged in working together.
They have previously been told that the ladies and gentlemen should work closer together than previous seasons.
- We are still two national teams, but we want to work together a lot. It really feels positive with the response we have received to that idea. There are great benefits to it. That is a great strength in that, I mean, says Byström and is supported by Kalla:
- There are many studies that show that if you mix women and men, you perform better. So I just see that as positive.
"We don't look back"This past season, it was turbulent in the cross country team with leader changes and information on unsemma. There was nothing that was discussed when they were now gathered.
- We're not looking back, we're just looking forward. Daniel Fåhraeus and I came in now and we had always wanted to work with leadership issues and the structure around it, says Byström.
- We have just wondered how we think a dream teammate should be and of course what values we want to live by and if we are prepared to make the necessary priorities, says Kalla.