Collaboration

Today’s distributed working environments and ever more complex problems require collaboration and teamship. Success depends increasingly on the quality of human interactions that bridge functional, organisational, cultural and national barriers.

Organisations need teams to collaborate well together. It is dangerous to assume that all high performing teams are collaborative with other teams – they are not. Tribalism and silos often prevail, where members of each tribe perform well in their own territory, but form ‘cliques’ that inhibit collaboration with others.

Riding the white-water rapids of today’s turbulence demands more collaborative problem solving than ever before. High performance comes when diversity of thought, experience and expertise combine through learning to optimise these collective skills in a psychologically safe, high trust environment.

Teamship skills for effective collaboration

Many of us spend more hours of the day interacting with our work colleagues than we do with our partners or families. We need our working relationships to be effective.

Knowing how to build successful interpersonal relationships is the foundation of collaboration and high team performance. Enabling individuals to develop ‘teamship’ capabilities is the key to increasing the quality of human interactions in teams, across networks, supply chains and partnerships.

See our Teamship Skills for Effective Collaboration training programme.

High performance teams

When faced with today’s complex challenges:

• The best plans and intentions go awry

• Collaboration can collapse

• Teams can derail

• Communication can freeze up.

If a team needs to significantly raise its game, or has conflict issues creating barriers to performance, we delve more deeply into the skills and mindsets required of the 7 Factors of High Team Performance.

See our Moving Teams to High Performance training programme.

Team coaching

The most important aspect of training is what happens after it. Cars may just about survive without a regular service, but they won’t perform at their best.

We work with teams to keep the car running smoothly with follow-up interventions and coaching programmes and / or train the team to do their own servicing.

Our team coaching involves facilitating and challenging real-life teams to maximise their performance in service of the organisation’s purpose and strategic goals.

See Team coaching and Assessments & Profiling.