Creating the right conditions

Helping an established leadership team in the “performing” phase of team development.
Developing future-fit leaders

The challenge

This UK based charity had an established leadership team and wanted to spend time developing and ensuring that the team were in the “performing” phase of team development.

The team had been working together for some time and had recently experienced a session that had left them feeling judged and were nervous about embarking on any future team development sessions.

The CEO asked us to come in and work with the team to create a psychological safe space for the team not to feel judged and where they could give each other feedback, challenge and support each other, with a healthy amount of tension and debate.

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Starting with Spotlight, we looked at the strengths of each team member and created a space that encouraged feedback on each other’s strengths, the celebration of what the team was and acknowledgement of what they weren’t.

The team wanted to adopt a set of behaviours and values and identify what they stood for as a team. As the work developed, with team sessions and 1:1 coaching, what emerged were frustrations that the rest of the business were slow to adapt to recent organisational changes.

We used the spotlight profile of the team and compared it to the rest of the business to understand the disconnect and then used a culture deck to help the team identify the desired behaviours they needed to demonstrate in order to elicit the right behaviours from the business.

Impact & Results

“The sessions were thought provoking and challenging that left us very clear as to how we needed to pull together as a leadership team and the shadow we were casting on the business.”
- Executive Sponsor

1

The team identified the lasting impact they wanted to have on their people.

2

The team understood why there might be a disconnect with the rest of the business and identified strategies to bring them closer.

3

The team took away individual commitments to shift the team towards sustained high performance.

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