Do your best work, together
Delivering great work for large projects or initiatives invariably requires different organisations or commercial entities to work and collaborate closely with each other to get the job done and for their mutual benefit.
While this such collaboration can produce great results, it can also present challenges for different organisational teams, who discover that ‘collaboration’ is easier to say that to enact, when each organizational team has different cultural attitudes, approaches and ways of working, fuelled by different needs and different views of what is important, with different priorities often dictated to by their ‘home’ organisations.
These differences can sometimes be accommodated. However, when not recognised and resolved, their effects can exponentially increase, resulting in high levels of miscommunication, misunderstanding, frustration, unhelpful pervading narratives and eventually dysfunction. Such dysfunction invariably has a high emotional and financial cost.
Excellence in Partnering and Joint Ventures
Purpose:
These bespoke Programmes bring together teams from different organisations to support them to better understand each other and the type of relationship they need to have to accomplish the common task; creating new and more effective way of working together in order that they can deliver - together.
Process:
These bespoke programmes usually include:
Interviews with team members and key stakeholders to understand the current context and recurring issues.
One to one coaching support for each team leader and the implementation of joint sessions with both leaders to align on the real issues facing both teams in their work together.
A series of workshops with both teams, to build mutual understanding of current needs and each parties requests of each other, as a preliminary to the development of a joint plan that can pragmatically enable higher levels of cooperation and cohesion.
As appropriate, these workshops also aim to support leaders and team members to:
Understand differences and how to use them well to create greater effectiveness, rather than being used by them that invariably leads to dysfunction.
Explore the nature of conflict, how it arises, its positive and negative attributes, and to how, with the right mindset and behaviours, it can be seen as a necessary element in the development of a strong working partnership.
Supporting leaders and team members to feel better equipped to have the difficult or essential conversation they need to have with colleagues and other team members.
As a result, you will get:
A genuine partnership with your delivery partners or newly merged colleagues.
A positive shift in the quality of conversations each party has with each other with a corresponding increase in trust.
Better decision making between partners through a healthy relationship with sufficient challenge and support.
A refreshed collaborative culture that unlocks business value and reduces both costs, in time, resources and emotional and psychological fatigue.
What do our clients have to say?
Centre for Teams has really worked wonders for our team, unlocking the potential for greater wellbeing as well as ambition and sales drive and the creation of a much more collaborative and well-functioning team. It also came at a critical time for the business as we prepared for a major transaction which has allowed us to significantly expand our market impact. I cannot recommend them highly enough.
Peter McMenemy
Partner, Allio & Konrad, part of Siemens
Centre for Teams has added huge value to my personal development, as well as to my Senior Leadership Team. This has allowed my team to outperform my areas of my business, especially around strategic direction and ambiguity in a complex working environment. I would not hesitate in recommending Centre for Teams for Senior Leadership Development, to achieve a high-performing team.
Rob Keen
Director, Thames Water
If we were The Beatles, you would definitely be known as The Sixth Beatle.
Antony Mayfield
CEO, Brilliant Noise
A heartfelt thank you to Centre for Teams for leading us through an action-packed and powerful three days of personal discovery and team formation. It was a quite transformative process. We’ve come out the other side thinking of things in remarkable and different ways. Quite moving.
Steve De Albuquerque
Global Chief, Health and Safety Assurance, Conoco Phillips
Centre for Teams has helped me and my senior management colleagues develop our own skills and style, manage our teams better, and push through some big changes in the organization with much greater effectiveness, ease and mindfulness of the implications. I would thoroughly recommend them.
Anthony Grower
Marketing Specialist
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