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Teamworking for Innovation

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Teams deliver outstanding customer results when they operate with empowering cultures. Choosing appropriate team structures can encourage innovative work practices and deliver step improvements when managed with confidence and integrity.

A team culture where empowerment is a natural result is motivating and productive, but can be a challenge to achieve.

Empowerment implies autonomy, and results when individuals are ready and prepared to take responsibility for decisions and actions within a framework of authority.

It usually develops over time, as understanding and confidence grows. When changing authority, or devolving authority, different individuals within a team will progress at different stages, depending on their willingness to accept new ideas, and take personal risk. The manager’s skill in coaching and guiding the whole team to reach a desired point, within their personal limits, is critical.

In growing an empowered team culture, it is essential that management infrastructures provide the support necessary for team success.

How can we help to develop team cultures?

Consultancy to establish:

Clear task boundaries early in the process
Balanced objectives and measures within the teams’ sphere of influence and control
clear, timely performance information
Appropriate levels of autonomy and authority
Teamworking process
Team communication mechanisms

Training Events:

Autonomous Work Teams
Innovative Work Practices
The Manager as Coach

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Our Services:

Employee Engagement

Employee engagement is the hard issue that CEOs must get to grips with. It predicts profitability and ensures long term growth and market out-performance.

Innovative work practices can be generated through effective engagement approaches, building a culture of team performance and responsibility for your business.

We can assist you in choosing how to develop and manage your engagement strategy, and in enhancing internal capability and skill to rise to the performance challenge. Our approach integrates several elements in a tailored plan specific to you.

Learning & Development

Our workshops and training events enable your management teams to develop practical skills and prepare effective plans for aligning and delivering their goals for improving business performance.

We design and deliver large scale development programmes, workshops for specific skills, mentoring and coaching for managers, and web based modules for self-learning.

Click here to download a .pdf copy of our Training and Event Portfolio.

Surveys & Diagnostics

With our partners we provide customer and employee research for a wide variety of organisations to evaluate factors such as organisational engagement, change and customer perception.

We pride ourselves on offering excellent value for money and rapid turnaround of results.

We also provide diagnostic services to teams and individuals to help with personal development and learning activities.

Transformation Services

Transformation programmes can be very positively received when the culture and the new requirements are aligned and integrated with care.

But we so often hear of programmes that have been ill thought out and poorly executed.

We provide transformation planning and execution services that enable client organisations to work with the prevailing culture and involve and engage employees at the earliest appropriate stage to achieve radical change in planned time-scales.