Team Coaching

We coach, develop and work alongside leaders and teams to shift ideas on leadership and provide the skills and tools needed to grow teams.

Handling difficult people in meetings

Handling difficult people in meetings

“I know, I know; running Meetings is such boring stuff… not sexy at all. But….

I have on numerous occasions taught facilitation skills and there was always real interest in tricks and techniques for handling [difficult] people. “

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How Good Is Your Team At Solving Problems?

How Good Is Your Team At Solving Problems?

Teams often miss the opportunity to genuinely collaborate because they enter into discussions without clarity of what the discussion is for and how the discussion should proceed to get the most from the time together.

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Dealing with Team Flare-ups

Dealing with Team Flare-ups

Most teams suffer from the occasional conflict and team members losing their cool.

We work with a lot of teams, some of these have members who are competitive with each other and as a result struggle to leave the storming stage. Others move past this and capitalise on real synergy. This is the story of one leadership team that had some touchy issues and what they did about it.

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Great leaders focus on ‘follow’

Great leaders focus on ‘follow’

Most of the leaders we get work with are pretty good leaders. They realise that they need to have a successful team to help them and their business succeed, and as such, invest time and effort in their team.  This an honourable intent and typically means you are better than average at leading people. But kicking-off a few initial team development or team building sessions are never enough.

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3 Ways to Assess Your Team’s Potential

3 Ways to Assess Your Team’s Potential

There is a lot written on what makes teams successful – just Google it –  it makes for some interesting reading. There are certainly a lot of skilled practitioners out there doing good work who have strong advice about what helps. However, research showing causality between a specific factor or condition and high or improved performance is harder to find.

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What Makes Great Teams

What Makes Great Teams

Our search for the truth about what makes great teams has led us to do a review of the research and read stacks of books written by academics and team experts proclaiming they have the answer. It’s a bit like a search for the holy grail. There is a different model and list of key factors at every turn.

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