• Developing Your Organisation
• Developing Your Teams
  • Facilitating Top Teams
  • Team Performance
  • Business Partnering
• Developing Your People & You

Developing Your Teams

Team Performance

"The sum of the parts ...". The holy grail of team development. How do you work in ways which make the contribution of the whole team greater than that achieved by a collection of individual contributions?

The first stage is to be sure you need to be a team to do what's needed. Some "teams" torture themselves over the quality of cabinet decision-making or active co-operation when actually all that's needed is to keep each other informed and not tread on each other's toes!

Knowing what kind of team you need to be to do what's required, in turn begs the question; "What's this team's purpose, or its unique contribution?"

Knowing WHERE to intervene is absolutely key to effective team development. Countless hours can be spent with limited gain "getting to know each other better" if your reason for existing isn't well understood.

We provide you with tools, frameworks, and bespoke approaches to answering these questions, and to dealing with the challenging issues arising from leveraging team performance.

Typical elements include:-

• Working closely with the team members and involving them at an early stage.
• Building mutual credibility and respect and encouraging open and honest debate.
• Developing collective agreement of the team’s purpose.
• Undertaking a joint diagnosis of issues with the wider team, customers and suppliers to understand different perspectives.
• Making use of existing available data.
• Determining what kind of relationships are required to achieve what is needed.
• Benchmarking against other teams where appropriate.
• Contracting with team members and leaders to build ownership of and commitment to success.

While our work will involve looking at strategies, priorities and measures, it will also invariably address motivations, attitudes, passions and drives. Looking at one area in isolation seldom takes you very far. Building a team’s capacity and willingness to talk openly, generate trust, take risks and secure real commitment is at the heart of how we work with you.