Groupthink: The Hidden Danger Undermining Team Decisions
by David Paice on May 15, 2025
In corporate boardrooms and team meetings alike, unanimous agreement can sometimes signal a hidden problem. When the drive for harmony overtakes critical evaluation, teams fall prey to groupthink – often with disastrous results.
Giving corrective feedback without undermining trust
by David Paice on May 12, 2025
Providing corrective feedback is an essential part of effective management, yet it can be fraught with challenges, particularly when it comes to maintaining trust. Trust is foundational to high-performing teams (Costa & Anderson, 2011), and mishandling feedback can erode it quickl …
How To Break Down Organisational Silos
by David Paice on May 1, 2025
Take two teams to the North Pole. Set one on a course directly south and the other with just a 1-degree variation. Within 15 minutes, they’ll lose sight of each other. Aligning teams around a shared goal may sound simple, but in practice, it’s far more challenging.
5 Ways To Build Trust Within a Team
by David Paice on Apr 24, 2025
Trust is a foundation of any high-performing team, unlocking better communication, engagement, and results. Research shows that employees at high-trust companies experience significantly less stress and higher productivity than those at low-trust organisations [1]. Building trust take …
Team Leader Coaching: The Key To Navigating Change More Effectively
by David Paice on Apr 17, 2025
Human beings are hardwired to seek stability and avoid change as change is synonymous with risk and the unknown. Unfortunately, this can impede the ability of individual employees and their teams to navigate change constructively, leading to conflict and poor performance. Individuals …
How To Be Trustworthy?
by David Webster on Apr 10, 2025
It was 12 noon on the first morning of our two days together. My colleague and I invited the Executive Team to consider the qualities and behaviours that would help their conversations be successful in their work together. The stakes were high – complex expectations from multiple stak …
Achieving Long Term Resilience Through The Principles Of Teamship
by David Paice on Apr 3, 2025
Effective teamship, which embodies the principles of adaptability, shared accountability, and collaboration, is the foundation of all resilient businesses. Teamship encourages teams and departments to function as interconnected units, combining their individual strengths with a shared …
The Importance Of Developing Clarity Of Purpose In Coaching Teams To High-Performance
by Chris Sheepshanks on Mar 27, 2025
Purpose driven leadership is a corporate leadership strategy that aims to help team members find greater personal meaning in their work. Successful purpose driven leadership helps to align personal and organisational goals and values among your employees to achieve greater quality of …
Turnover Contagion: Why Strong Teams Stay and Others Walk Away
by David Paice on Mar 20, 2025
The departure of a trusted team member can feel like a seismic shift within an organisation. But beyond the immediate emotional and workload burden, there’s a more insidious risk that leaders often overlook—turnover contagion.
How Do Leaders Improve Team Dynamics?
by David Paice on Mar 13, 2025
Different types of dynamics or connecting forces occur in teams. Some are obvious such as the sharing of tasks to complete a goal, some lie under the surface such as the thought someone else in the team is not pulling their weight may foster cynicism and cause people to bear grudges. …
What drives cohesiveness in a team?
by David Paice on Mar 6, 2025
How can you tell if your team is merely a collection of individuals or a healthy interdependent high performing team? Looking at the results will help. But you can't change those once they've happened. Better to look at what's happening internally to shape the results externally.