Chris Sheepshanks

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How Team Coaches Create Significant And Sustainable Benefits

by Chris Sheepshanks on Dec 6, 2024

A group of managers putting puzzle pieces together that represent teamship during a team building exercise led by a corporate team building consultant.

Team Building activities are popular opportunities for leaders and team members to practise communication, decision-making, and conflict resolution in a collaborative setting, a step removed from their day-to-day workplace and responsibilities. Operated alongside a coaching and leader …

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When Conflict Emerges: How Do You Keep Your Team Motivated?

by Chris Sheepshanks on Oct 25, 2024

A motivated team showcasing teamship by creating a chain with their hands and committing to working together to overcome challenges and obstacles.

Conflicts and disagreements are an inevitable feature of any group of human beings, and workplaces are no exception. The risk is especially high when the pressure is on and stress reactions take over, impairing team members' ability to make considered decisions and potentially escalat …

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Aspects Of Teamship In Intergenerational Teams

by Chris Sheepshanks on Apr 26, 2024

A group of female managers of different ages enhancing their teamship with help from a business consultancy agent focused on building leadership for inclusion.

‘Teamship’ embraces the proposition that collective effort and collaboration by all members of a team is essential for businesses to achieve a common objective. However, even in some of the most ‘modern’ organisations, traditional leadership models can prevail or creep back in, with s …

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What Is Required To Turn Managers Into Leaders?

by Chris Sheepshanks on Mar 22, 2024

Developing managers into leaders represented by paper cutouts of people with one leader in red amongst diverse colours that are following the red leader.

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 …

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How Do You Develop A Team To Adapt To Change?

by Chris Sheepshanks on Feb 22, 2024

Three colleagues sit around a table, visibly concerned about a sudden problem they have to deal with, highlighting the challenges of team adaptation and the importance of learning how to develop your team to handle unexpected changes effectively.

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 …

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The Importance Of Developing Teamship

by Chris Sheepshanks on Jan 25, 2024

Four happy and productive employees in a business that uses teamship for personal and team development to help improve their skills and better allow them to successfully collaborate on projects.

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 …

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