Team Cohesion and Culture Programs
A cohesive team is not a team that agrees.
It is a team that can disagree properly, say the difficult thing in the room rather than in the corridor, and still turn up for each other on Monday.
That can be developed.
It is mostly about how people feel about being in the team, and that can be shaped deliberately rather than left to luck.
Inside Out
Harmony and cohesion look similar from the outside
A harmonious team
Nobody argues.
Meetings are pleasant and short. Decisions come easily, which feels efficient right up until one turns out to be wrong, and it emerges that three people saw it coming and said nothing.
A cohesive team
People challenge each other without it becoming personal.
Bad news travels upward quickly. Someone can say they're struggling without it costing them standing.
Harder work, and considerably more reliable
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Most leaders who ask me for team building are describing the second one.
The What
Targeted to you
Built for your specific needs and environment. Or .....
The areas people ask me for most.
Change
Successful change depends on people. When you need to bring your people with you through something big. We use a card game to answer one question: how do we want our people to feel, and not feel, through this change? Then we get specific about the behaviours and support that will actually make that happen.
DISC assessments and workshops
Understanding your own communication style and preferences plus everyone else's. Designed to be interactive and practical.
Leadership
For a leadership group wanting to establish the culture of their team or organisation. We start with each leader's own self-awareness, then move to what you want for your people. We finish with the leadership behaviours, actions and rituals that will keep it going.
Culture Design
Identifying and mapping your team's desired culture together. Everyone works out what they need at work to be successful, the group agrees a collective top five and we define the behaviours and rituals that make it real.
Workshops designed for your teams and your leaders.
Building effective teams
Team development for groups that are new, newly merged, newly led, or simply not working the way they should be.
Values, Rituals and more
Designing or redesigning your values, identifying or creating the rituals that reinforce those, and the ones that get in the way.
Options
Culture work needs more than an afternoon
Insight arrives in a day. Habits don't. So these ideally run as programs, with work in between sessions and a revisit built in.
01
A single workshop
One topic, one session
Good for a single team, a team offsite, or testing whether our style and this card game suits your people before committing to more.
02
A short series.
The team, then the leaders.
Multiple teams, when you need ownership and shared language.
03
A development program.
Months not days.
A mix of workshops, deep dives and one to one coaching running together, with activities between sessions to embed the learning.
04
Culture reset.
Workshops, leadership support to embed.
When you've had a fracture and need to reset your culture.
A program designed with you for you
How we start
Design first, delivery second
First
Then
After that
Finally
A conversation
Understanding your needs. What is actually happening, what have you tried. What does success look like for you.
Design
Content built around your situations and your people, at the right level for the group in the room.
Deliver
The sessions themselves, in person or virtual, with energy that encourages people to participate rather than endure.
Embed
Targeted activities between and after sessions, so what happened in the room turns into what happens at work.
No obligation. No pitch
Tell me what your team is like at the moment
Including the parts you wouldn't put in an engagement survey. Twenty minutes, no cost.
Sometimes the answer is a program.
Sometimes it's a conversation between two people, or coaching for one, and I'll tell you honestly which I think it is.
Contact
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