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Team Building
Members of high performing teams behave, think and feel differently to people in ordinary teams – we call it “Teamship”. They undergo a psychological shift that makes the success of the team an important ingredient in their sense of who they are: a source of pride, passion and performance. If you have belonged to a high performing team you will remember what this feels like and for most of us it is a peak experience. Teamship creates this level of trust, collaboration and commitment and it is the lifeblood of exceptional performance in teams.
We run team building events and off-sites to develop Teamship. Using comprehensive pre-event assessments and briefings, a tried and trusted structured approach that develops relationships in your team and comprehensive post-event support you will be amazed at how much sustainable change you can achieve.
Recent projects
- Team building off-site for a team of partners in a top 5 accountancy firm
- Team development for the team of senior officers from the Army, Navy, RAF and MOD responsible for Britain’s helicopter force
- A series of team building off-sites run in Switzerland for a Global Commercial Leadership team in a major global organisation
Team Coaching
Team Coaching accelerates a team on its journey to high performance. It combines the best of coaching, training and off-sites to provide sustained development for real teams (virtual or co-located). Based on a deep understanding of the psychological processes that drive team performance, it enables teams to develop the motivation and collaborative capability to perform. The coaching format supports teams as they develop and fine-tune the processes needed to get work done and maintain relationships, to become more effective and efficient.
Our Team Coaches encourage penetrating inquiries and deep reflections. Each session is carefully designed to cut through the surface “noise” and strengthen the core of Teamship. To ensure the team succeeds coaching:
- Focuses you on the right topics
- Drives you to use the right process
- Encourages you to knock down the barriers to your team learning
Recent projects
- Team coaching for a Global Leadership Team for Key Account Managers
- Team coaching for an executive board of a £10bn defence contractor
Team Development Centres
Development Centres are an established part of personal development. A Team Development Centre will do the same thing for teams in your organisation by:
- Clearly communicating behavioural expectations
- Enabling benchmarking between teams
- Providing accurate feedback that drives team development
A Team Development Centre lasts one or two days and consists of a series of “exercises” based on a single scenario that evolves and sets new challenges for the team as the centre progresses. We design scenarios specifically for your organisation to replicate the kinds of challenges and pressures that teams will commonly face.
Team Genius
There is a paradox – game changing, breakthrough innovation depends on collaboration and yet, most teams are anti-innovative. Not because they are composed of unimaginative individuals, but because the dynamics in ordinary teams, underpinned by a hardwired human need to be included, maintain the status quo, quash deviation and kill true innovation, before it is even born.
When was the last time your team came up with a game changing innovation? When did you last slay a sacred cow? How many ideas have you consigned to the dustbin by saying “nice idea in a perfect world, but we don’t work in one… we’d never get the budget… we don’t have the time”? For innovation to happen takes an active and rigorous pursuit of new ideas. Speaking one’s mind, honesty, curiosity and listening to really understand are prerequisites for innovation but not enough.
Team Genius is a methodology that enables teams to apply new and challenging thinking processes. Teams arrive with a real “big problem” to solve and we guide them on a “breakthrough thinking journey” to find innovative ways to solve the problem. This is a collaborative process in which logical rational thought is refocused (rather than suspended as it is in brainstorming) to generate innovations.
Team members learn how to use the Team Genius methodology to uncover the genius in their team and equip it to meet future challenges.
Recent projects
- A series of Innovation off-sites for an operations team in an international charity.
- Off-site for 75 marketers in a Global pharmaceuticals organisation focused on innovating organisational changes to improve communication