What Is Required To Turn Managers Into Leaders?
by Chris Sheepshanks on Mar 22, 2024
Despite being used as interchangeable terms in some organisations, management, and leadership invariably have different functions. Sometimes, good management and leadership can be combined within the same individual, but this isn’t a given. Successful organisations need both managers …
The Power Of An Adaptable Team
by David Webster on Mar 8, 2024
In an uncertain market, the ability for businesses to adapt and pivot quickly is critical for sustainable growth. Developing leadership teams with the capacity to swiftly respond to change is often the key to injecting greater resilience and flexibility into your organisation.
How Do You Develop A Team To Adapt To Change?
by Chris Sheepshanks on Feb 22, 2024
Let’s be honest, many corporate teams do not cope well with change. Change may come in the form of a new team member leaving or joining, a change in leadership, or even the impact of a new project, technology, – or an organisation wide change, such as a merger. Even the best-oiled tea …
Beyond Traditional Consulting: The Impact Of Leadership Coaching
by David Webster on Feb 10, 2024
Leadership coaching services are often treated as part of general business consulting, but while there is overlap between the two services, both have quite different methodologies and endpoints. In a business consulting model, a consultant comes in from a third party and helps you to …
The Importance Of Developing Teamship
by Chris Sheepshanks on Jan 25, 2024
What Is Teamship? Teamship can be defined as the qualities, conditions, and elements that need to be in place for a team to excel, thrive and to achieve strong and sustainable results through effective collaboration and collective endeavour. While much focus is often placed on support …
How Can Developing A Cohesive Team Improve Productivity?
by David Webster on Jan 11, 2024
Team cohesion is a commonly cited characteristic of effective teams. It is commonly cited because there is some instinctive truth about the idea that teams who like working together will do well and create a productive environment in which to deliver.
Psychological Safety: The Virtual Threat
by Centre For Teams on Jan 8, 2021
In 2012 Google initiated ‘Project Aristotle’. The project aimed to determine why some teams succeeded and others failed. This is a fascinating study, in part because of the might of Google’s analytical ability and the inclusion by project lead, Julia Rosovky, of some of best academics …
The optimistic leader in pessimistic times: hope vs experience?
by Centre For Teams on Jan 8, 2021
We have an optimistic Prime Minister in Boris Johnson. He is however one living in pessimistic times. Surely this is helpful? When listening to him I feel strangely reassured by his use of language, his personal tone, his display of emotion. However, when the UK government says that i …
High-Growth Firm with Leaders at a Crossroads
by Centre For Teams on Dec 22, 2020
What was at stake? The three founders of a high-growth tech firm, with 600 people in offices on three continents and five cities, had grown fast in the six years since its inception. The CEO and the CTO were at a crossroads personally and professionally.
Ground-Breaking Project Team
by Centre For Teams on Dec 22, 2020
What was at stake? We worked with the project leadership team of 15 people in this oil and gas major that was charged with delivering a fully functioning plant in the Middle East with a total of investment of around $16 billion. Before they deployed in country, much of their work was …
Whole Systems Alignment
by Centre For Teams on Dec 22, 2020
What was at stake? Working with a parastatal organisation in Namibia, that needed to make wide-ranging changes to enable greater performance. What did we do? We initially supported the CEO to articulate his vision for the organisation and specify the changes he saw as critical to the …