Team Practices
Establishing effective practices that help teams contribute and collaborate effectively
Greatness come from within. A team with the right priorities, the ability to communicate well with each other and the right mindsets. To be able to deliver new results, your team needs the right practices because how the team works matters more than who is on them.
Cross-functional? Single-function? Time-limited or enduring? 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. Often the team might be unconsciously stuck in ‘doing things the way we’ve always done them.’
From purpose to practical.
We help teams consciously design better ways of working, retaining what is contributing to success and helping to get work done today whilst experimenting with new helpful ideas to create success tomorrow.
Focus areas include:
1. Team agreements
A key principle of great teamwork is shared expectations of how to work together. How do you make decisions? How do you share feedback? How do you recognise one another? Different colleagues typically put emphasis on different elements of collaborative working. By recognising shared values, the team learns to practice new behaviours that support togetherness and impact.
2. Communication patterns
Communication is the core of skilful cooperation. We’ll advise and help you to initiate communication approaches that support effective teamwork that’s appropriate for your team size and structure. Focusing less on debate and more on healthy dialogue, your team will practice being open-minded, showing mutual respect and developing other people’s ideas. The team will recognise what it takes to be role models of healthy communication and collaboration across your company.
3. Team Chemistry
How to nurture the proven behaviours that contribute to highly positive chemistry within teams.
4. Good Conflict
Helping teams practice how to positively challenge current ways of working and reduce groupthink whilst maintaining healthy relationships.
5. Super-engaged
Clarifying goals, increasing the level of feedback and setting the challenge/skill ratio so that the team feels super-engaged in their work.
6. Treating time differently
Practical and proven methods to break habits of being overcommitted and over-scheduled, isolating and streamlining current practices that aren’t creating value.
How does your team perform?
Discover your ways of working score and uncover useful insights to help your teams to improve collaboration, boost engagement and improve productivity.
