Thriving teams

Competencies, skills, practice

Work environments are varied and changing. Managers and workers are navigating hybrid, return-to-office and remote work transitions.

Digital transformation initiatives remain significant drivers of change and mean continuous adaptions in work processes, tools, and interaction norms.  Management looks to employee engagement as foundational to productivity and job satisfaction.  What, fundamentally, is employee engagement?

The digital workplace has brought new opportunities for people to work in more dynamic, interactive and empowered ways.   More of their talent and know-how can be readily applied to solving problems, working more efficiently, surfacing innovation.

Yet workers and managers often struggle to adapt and use the rich range of tools and digital technologies within an organizational context that now also can include include an array of work location and context.

Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2023 Report clarifies the core nature of employee engagement

“True engagement means your people are psychologically present to do their work. They understand what to do; they have what they need; and they have a supportive manager and a supportive team. They know why their work matters. They are work ready”

Thriving teams, towards true engagement

We offer a range of practical solutions and guided support to help your organization’s teams work more effectively. By using tools and project interaction practice people on teams will find the focus and collaboration models that will support better flow, project results and less distraction.

Teams in the flow

Shifting work models (hybrid, remote, in-office) and a plethora of collaboration and communication tools often impact the ease of flow of work for individuals and across team interactions.  We offer a range of services to make project work seem less like a gauntlet and more effective and even fun.

  • Team checkup – a focused assessment of team practice, tool use, coordination and meeting norms to gauge the current proficiency and usage habit of the team.  Identify potential pitfalls – the common mistakes and inefficiencies when using tools.
  • Customized coaching and training modules from basic to advanced needs
  • Workflow optimization – mapping out the team’s current workflows, identifying points of integration for the software.
  • Effective digital communications and collaboration enhancement techniques
  • Post-coaching/training support – resources, periodic check-ins
  • Metrics and assessment – pre & post training assessments, feedback surveys, tool analytics

Meetings in service to Teamwork

In person and online (video) meetings are important ways to teams to coordinate and communicate.  Too often, however, they become default aspects of team work that can eat time work day calendars, distract from focused work.   We offer a range of services to help teams manage meetings

  • Initial assessment – current challenges, desired outcomes, clarifying current meeting culture, practices and pain points.
  • Meeting structure and effective meeting management techniques
    • Identify the cost of ineffective meetings in terms of times, resources, and morale
    • Goals – purpose driven, outcome oriented goals
    • Meeting frequency and type to meet the needs of the project or business process.
    • Actionable agendas, techniques to encourage involvement from attendees
    • Pre and post meeting actions
    • Convening and concentration
  • Techniques for effective meetings
    • Virtual and multi-modal meetings (common challenges with online meetings with F2F participants.
    • Facilitation techniques – handling challenges, fostering creativity, reaching consensus