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Breaking down Silos and creating a sense of One Team – No. 2 in our Top Tips for Team Leaders

Our first article covered how we worked with a Management Team to build trust/relationships, the first pillar of a high performing team, based on Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team model. This post focuses on building understanding and empathy across sub teams within a team, helping to break down silos and creating a sense of One Team. Many functions or departments in organisations are made up of sub-teams, and frequently there can be a pattern of working in silos. To start to break that down, and get everyone focusing in the same direction, it’s important to understand the different team’s perspectives. A key activity we ran to build relationships, trust and empathy was Lands Work™ to help the different sub teams, previously working in silos, to stand in each others’ shoes, and hear from each team (then play back) for example: – What is important to them? – What challenges they face – What help or support they need […]

Top Tips for Team Leaders – Building relationships and Trust in your team (No. 1 in our Top Tips series)

How did we get HERE? – Top Tips for Team Leaders “Empowered” “Connected” “Encouraged” “Bolstered/supported” “Safe space so can ask for help” “Better alignment on priorities” “Another level of trust” “Stronger as a united team” “We have each other’s backs” “I feel more appreciated/valued” What would it be like to have YOUR team saying these things about each other and how they are working together? These ‘closing out’ quotes came at the end of a recent team coaching day, following a year working with a Management Team in a challenging industry. This short series will take you through what we did over 4 full day sessions, and some things that YOU can implement in your teams to move the dial towards even higher performance. Based on Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team model, we always start by focusing on building trust and relationships in the team. And we mean real, vulnerability-based trust, rather than just the predictive or transaction-based trust that many operate on in the business world. That means getting to know the human behind the role. Trust/Relationships – How? – We start every session with the team with a proper check in: How are you, really? What do you need? It grounds people, gives them permission to be fully themself, whatever state they’re in, and helps teammates be aware of what’s going on for each other. […]

Successful Partnership Working – Top Tips video series

We often work with teams and partnerships.... and we've noticed some common pitfalls in how they operate, meaning that the road to success can be a lot bumpier than you'd hoped. So we produced a series of videos with some Top Tips on how to make your partnership and team working more effective. Intro video Watch the rest of the series of 7 Top Tips below, plus the wrap up video. Tip #1 for Successful Partnership Working - on the subject of the project/team/partnership mandate Tip #2 for Successful Partnership Working - on the subject of the shared vision for success Tip #3 for Successful Partnership Working - on HOW you work as a partnership/team Tip #4 for Successful Partnership Working - on making sure your team really does add up to more than the sum of its parts Tip #5 for Successful Partnership Working - on understanding your stakeholders Tip #6 for Successful Partnership Working - on team vs. individual results Tip #7 for Successful Partnership Working - on effectively reviewing or checking in with progress - without micro-managing! Wrap up - and how we could help YOUR partnership/team That's it - do message us on [email protected], or comment below, if you'd like a FREE no strings 30 minute call to explore your needs and ask us some questions.