David Paice
Achieving Long Term Resilience Through The Principles Of Teamship
by David Paice on Mar 27, 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 …
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.
When the boss gets fired
by David Paice on Mar 6, 2025

‘My boss got fired today!’ Is that a cue for celebration or concern? What kind of power vacuum has this left and are you now wondering who in your team might get promoted over you? Or worse, will a stranger fill that vacancy?
How does resilience improve performance?
by David Paice on Jan 23, 2025

“That which does not kill us, makes us stronger” – Nietzsche (1895) Twilight of the Idols. What did he mean exactly and what specifically do we learn from setbacks that equip us to be better and stronger in the future?
A New Year's Resolution for Resilience
by David Paice on Jan 9, 2025

In many martial arts, it is an important discipline to calm the mind and prepare the body for getting hit. In doing so, there is less pain if you are hit because you’ve tensed or relaxed the right part of the body at the right time. This is known as ‘hardening training’ – the ability …