Team Development

Organisations are made up of interdependent teams, and the success of these teams drives the success of the organisation.

Teams which have a positive culture and effective collaboration will naturally perform at a higher level.

We work with teams and their leaders to cultivate a mutual understanding and appreciation between team members.

We identify opportunities for improvement in five key areas:

• Drive & Determination Collectively agreeing a clear goal and striving to achieve it
• Collaboration & Celebration Being agile and adaptable
• Employee Experience Trusting each other and having good interpersonal relationships
• Methods & Measures Establishing agreed ways of working and progress dashboards
• Living & Learning Continually identifying strengths, successes and areas for improvement

This leads to heightened performance through stronger individual engagement, less conflict, improved communication, enhanced problem solving and creativity, and better decision making.

We provide consultancy, design and facilitation services. We work with clients from the inception of their team development project; designing activities and interventions tailored to each team’s requirements, presenting and facilitating individual sessions or whole events.

We are often asked to run a session focusing on the personality types present in the team using Insights Discovery or other memorable and enjoyable diagnostic tools.

Discover how we supported the merger of two teams during the reorganisation of a Naval Defence company and how we used Insights Discovery to help Ericsson establish a new, high performance team across three countries.

Our team coaching services are bespoke designed to each organisation’s situation and objectives.

As a guide, these are activities which we are likely to include:

• Preparatory work for participants to consider the status quo in their team.
• Assessment of individual personality traits, using tools such as Insights Discovery, MBTI and Belbin.
• Extension of this assessment to mapping the personality types within the team.
• Discussion about how to use this knowledge to improve collaboration.
• Identification of opportunities for improvement, including lessons to learn from past activities.
• Creation of an action plan to achieve “high performance team” status. For example, this might include techniques to make team meetings more effective or improve internal communication.
• Agreement of follow up activities to implement the action plan and measure its efficacy.

Example training outlines:

• Smart Team working half day workshop
• Team Development with Insights Discovery

We are happy to travel to any location for in-person training, including your offices or event venues (which we can source for you). We adapt our work to suit the space and facilities available.

Our team development coaching can also be delivered online. This can be particularly useful for shorter training sessions and if your team includes remote workers.