Achieving Together
How different teams work together to deliver shared outcomes
Improving Teamwork strengthens how colleagues work within their own immediate team. But colleagues need to join-up with other teams across your company.
One of our biggest learnings from working with over 150 teams?
That every team finds it more challenging to navigate the broader organisation and understand how to join up effectively with other teams.
Improving cross-team working
You shift a workplace culture by explicitly setting expectations of how to achieve success by uniting the talent across the company.
The watchout is that colleagues often feel more loyal to their team than to the company. We believe that refocusing on ‘Achieving Together’ is your real accelerator that enables you to perform as ‘one team.’
Focus areas include:
1. Creating your multiplying effect
Defining cross-team goals that build bridges and remove silos. Integrating the priorities of different teams to deliver shared outcomes.
2. Defining collaboration
We spend more than 80% of our time each week in collaborative work. So it pays to define what ‘good’ and ‘less good’ collaboration looks like. Why, when and how do teams work together to deliver company goals (and when don’t they)? How do your shared behaviours show up, particularly in times of challenge.
3. Capacity to thrive
It’s likely that your colleagues are already members of different types of teams and spend a lot of time in ‘reactionary workflow’, trying to stay afloat and firefight different demands on their attention. Without looking at the whole picture, it’s all too easy for collaborative demands to overwhelm employees.
We coach Team Leaders to work together to prevent overload caused by too many projects, requests and meetings.
4. Connection and belonging
Building social capital, essential for great teamwork, requires deliberate focus when your team is distributed. Familiarity and trust, important for task delivery, is typically built outside of doing the work, through ad hoc conversations when we better understand who our colleagues really are. We help you design events, rituals and celebrations that help foster real inclusion and recognition.
5. Managing mix mode
The purpose of the office has shifted. When and why do you come into your office? You’re already experimenting and learning from 3-2 or 2-3 set-ups, maybe even 1-4. Switching back and forth between the two modes is great for flexibility but also challenging for employee wellbeing. We help you to define the practices that create a level playing field for teams to collaborate well across modes including manager practices, staying in sync and running inclusive meetings where everyone feels engaged.
6. Career Frameworks
Helping colleagues see different pathways for personal growth and be able to identify a fulfilling career at your company. This development tool acts like a compass to help individuals discover their own unique path, bringing into focus potential destinations and stepping stone roles.
How does your team perform?
Better teamwork is an incredibly effective way to drive revenue, deliver stronger project success, anticipate customer needs, adapt to challenges and to innovate. It also strengthens engagement. If you want to boost these outcomes, then let’s start a conversation.
