Working With Teams

To develop effective and productive teaming.

I work with teams to establish the core elements of high performance and
to develop the skill and capability to sustain and enhance effective and productive teaming.

I believe we all bring good intentions to our work, trouble is, we also bring our human imperfections as well.

 

Bringing together capable individuals does not necessarily mean a successful Executive Team is created. Collective leadership is full of challenges. This is where I can step in.

I facilitate workshops and team coaching to build executive team performance using diagnostic tools, group and individual work to successfully enhance these core building blocks:

 

  • Understanding of helpful and unhelpful group behavioural patterns

  • Psychological safety

  • Quality and productivity of team conversation

  • Mutual trust

  • Handling conflict

  • Shared commitment

  • Holding one another to account

  • Focus on results

  • Productive team meetings

Tools and Resources

These tools help establish a framework and shared language to understand relationship and communication patterns and vulnerabilities. Together they help create a foundation on which teams can do further work to grow into psychologically safe, productive and effective units.

 

The Fearless Organisation Scan

The Fearless Organisation Scan has been developed by Professor Amy C. Edmondson. It’s an instrument used to create a picture of the level of psychological safety team members experience within the context of their team(s).

What is psychological safety?
It’s a shared belief held by members of a team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking. It describes a team climate characterised by interpersonal trust and mutual respect in which people are comfortable being themselves.

Teams that increase psychological safety tend to perform better.

  • For more information click here for the downloadable Fearless Organisational Scan Summary.

  • You may find this article useful.


Structural Dynamics Profiling

Structural Dynamics is an evidence-based approach founded by David Kantor over thirty years ago and taught at Harvard Business School. Put simply, it is a model for how communication works or doesn’t work in connecting human systems.

This enhances the opportunity to harness the collective wisdom of the team which is a critical competence of effective teams who are often dealing with complex challenges in a climate of uncertainty.

It enables us to learn different ways to contribute to conversations, which can build Psychological Safety, break ‘stuck’, unhelpful patterns of behaviour, and lead to much-improved results. 

  • Perception and empathy

    “We value your insight, energy, ability to step in at the right moment, the questions you ask, perception and empathy, your sharing your experience and the fact that you do not let us off the hook. We know we cannot get away with anything.”

    — Senior Manager - Operations

  • Strength in showing vulnerability

    “The uniqueness you brought to our group was by way of example, showing men that it’s a sign of strength to show vulnerability. To have this behaviour normalised and demonstrated by a facilitator gave me the freedom to be myself and do the same much more quickly than I would normally in a group or work setting.“

    - David Radovanovich, NZ Customs Counsellor

  • Strong and Safe

    “Alex has a unique ability to appear both strong and safe to a group and it’s because of this that the group relaxes very quickly and begins to open up and start sharing and taking risks with each other. When he talks people listen and I have heard nothing but good feedback from my team.”

    — CEO, Not for Profit organisation

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more effective?