Building Team Performance
Custom team development programs building team alignment, resilience, communication and performance.
Even highly capable individuals can struggle to perform collectively when priorities aren’t clear, communication is inconsistent, trust is low or people aren’t aligned around how they work together.
Team development creates the conditions for people to combine their expertise, strengths and perspectives effectively, building the alignment, resilience, accountability and collaboration needed for sustained high performance.
Common Challenges
There are often clear signs that a team needs attention:
- Competing goals and priorities
- Role ambiguity, working in silos or duplicated effort
- Unresolved conflict
- Poor communication
- Lack of accountability
- Getting bogged down in problems
- Blame, fear of speaking up
- Team members who are technically capable but not working effectively together.
Left unaddressed, these issues can erode trust and engagement, slow delivery, increase pressure on leaders and contribute to injury, absenteeism and turnover.
The Solution
Investing in team development helps organisations address these issues before they become costly problems.
Our team development programs are tailored to the needs and context of each team and may focus on:
- Goal articulation and priority setting
- Operational planning
- Strengths building
- Team culture and behavioural alignment
- Feedback and accountability processes and skills
- Building trust and accountability.
Program elements
Programs may incorporate:
- Team surveys and assessments
- Individual interviews
- Skill development workshops
- Facilitated team discussions
- Group coaching
- Individual coaching
- Development of team charters, plans, policies and guidelines
- Documentation of agreed team outcomes – ensuring the work translates from good conversation into meaningful action.
We also work with leaders across teams to build emotional intelligence and develop collective leadership impact.
These programs are based around:
- The Leadership Circle Collective Leadership Assessment tool
- The Genos Emotional Intelligence Assessment tools