Mobilising ‘best-in-class’ collaboration: How do you unite complex multi-partner teams on Europe’s largest infrastructure project?
HS2
Team Performance
Enabling individuals to develop trust, cohesion and high performance within and across teams and across organisations.
The workplace is changing. It’s increasingly characterised by rapid digitalization, major demographic shifts and highly varied working patterns. As a result, teams have changed too. Membership is often fluid, hybrid working limits physical contact and teams are expected to operate across function and geographies.
Embracing these realities requires a fresh approach to team development that prioritises adaptability, creative communication, collaboration and faster, deeper trust.
Whether newly-formed or long established, from project teams to Executive Teams, our interventions are designed to develop the right structures, processes and skills for high performance.
What we do
Executive Teams:
Members are simultaneously organisational and functional leaders. We help them create common purpose in the face of differing local priorities. Building trusting relationships and collaborative ways of working that optimize everyone’s contribution, and develop ‘one voice’ to the wider organisation and beyond.
Newly formed Teams:
We help new teams establish common purpose, trusting relationships, and constructive ways of working, so that they can set the conditions for success from the start.
Teams in Crisis:
We help teams diagnose what’s going wrong, respectfully and openly explore obstacles and find new and improved, ways of working.
Virtual Teams:
We help teams see past ‘where’ people work and instead focus strategically on ‘how’ people work. Allowing teams to cut through ambiguity and sustain trust, communication and performance.
Rapid Teaming:
We help teams that are operating in highly complex and continuously evolving environments to quickly establish trust. To enable robust systems, processes and communication practices.
Matrixed Teams:
Where operating systems and structures are complex, we work with matrixed teams to collaborate and communicate across boundaries, identify and manage conflicting priorities, and unite behind shared organisational purpose.
So what sets us apart?
There are many team development providers out there. But we believe these three things give us the edge:
We confront the paradoxes of teams head on:
Teams are messy. They operate in a state of constant tension between conflicting priorities. Collaboration vs self-interest, flow vs friction, structure vs creativity. We confront these head on by giving individuals the tools to rapidly cut through noise, get comfortable with conflict, and focus on the things that matter.
We see teams as dynamic entities:
Many solutions take a static ‘input-process-output’ approach to team performance. We prefer to see teams as dynamic entities that need flexibility and resilience built into their DNA. Enabling them to adapt to anticipated and unexpected external change.
We forge connection, before delivering content:
We know that a critical factor of success for high performing teams is their ability to create and sustain psychological safety. That’s why our programmes focus on building robust authentic relationships as early as possible. So individuals feel safe to experiment, challenge each other, fail safely and evolve quickly.
We empower teams to fail fast and learn faster:
High-performing teams don’t fear failure – they embrace it. We push teams to experiment, learn from their mistakes, and iterate at speed. The faster they fail, the faster they grow. It’s not about getting everything right – it’s about getting better, faster, and more aligned with the challenges ahead.
Our Impact
-
-
Strengthening leadership teams to drive measurable improvements across the Prison Service
National Offender Management Service (NOMS) / Ministry of Justice (MoJ)
