Team Development
High Performance Teams
- Does your work involve leading, or being part of a team?
- If you’re a team member, how much of your time is spent competing to be heard?
- How many group members actually participate in any given meeting?
- Does everyone have a voice at the table?
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Many teams have learned to operate on “competitive thinking” – in which individuals seek to be right or to “win”. This often means that quieter, more reflective team members - who often have a great deal to contribute - are not heard, and so effectiveness and engagement is reduced.
Evidence now suggests that “collaborative thinking” – everyone working together to produce the best possible ideas and outcome - is the mark of a high-performing, creative and highly-engaged team, and, in turn, a more profitable business. A few simple changes in the way that individuals work with each other - essentially applying the principles of the Thinking Environment to a variety of interactions including meetings - can transform the effectiveness of a team.
Learning the Thinking Environment model happens in “real time” as real work is done, making it a highly cost-effective process. It is effective for face-to-face, virtual and hybrid working.
Working with a newly-formed group as it first comes together is particularly effective. It is still possible, though, to make a step-change in performance even with long-established teams.
If you would like to discuss how the Thinking Environment might help your team, do get in touch with me for an exploratory conversation, without commitment.
Testimonials
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“Anne is one of the most dynamic people-and organisation-changing people I know. She has the ability to mentor and influence to get extraordinary results from people who didn’t think they were capable of much, and to refocus over-large egos. There is little show about the way she does it; the “performance” is in the outcomes.”
Chris Goscomb,
Former head of People and Organisation Development.
The EasyJet Airline Company
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“A client team of mine had been working together for several years. After its first experience of a Thinking Environment, a team member said:
“It is as though we really listened to each other for the first time”
My Schuldt,
Klarhet Ledarskap,
Sweden