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What Can Team Leaders Actually Do About Trust in Teams Anyway?
Trust in teams is a fundamental pillar of employee engagement and ultimately team performance. But what can team leaders actually do about it? In his book ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’, Stephen Covey says: “Without trust we don’t truly collaborate,...
Courageous Conversations and Productivity
The Challenge Our client was the new CIO for the UK business of global book publishing group Hachette. While the technology division had had almost a decade of major transformation success it had become siloed and disconnected from the business. As Chris...
Do you have a team of stars or a star team?
Crazy question, I know, but post-pandemic businesses are really dependent on collective effort, not individual performance, to move from surviving, to thriving and growing again. Like any sports team with star players, you still need the whole team's effort to win the...
What kind of conditions need to exist to create employee engagement?
There has been a lot written in recent years about employee engagement, and if you have read any of the research by Gallup (et al) you will be pretty much convinced of the tangible organisational value of having an engaged workforce. With all the descriptions,...
Making Teamwork Work
The Challenge How do you get all members of a team to feel valued and contributing to the business after an acquisition? Our clients, senior managers of the European division of a global technologies company, were less than happy with the level of human integration...
Senior Leadership Development
The Challenge TNS-Global, a global market research and intelligence group had set itself the strategic goal of being recognised as the global leader in delivering value-added information and insights that help clients to make more effective decisions. The custom...
Developing High Potential
The Challenge EMC, a leading global information lifecycle management technology firm, had gone through a significant period of business re-building under the leadership of their new CEO. The early 2000’s had seen a collapse of their $8.9 billion revenues and...
Improving Employee Engagement
The Challenge Cabot Financial Management needed to focus the organisation on its new strategy and business goals after a merger and restructuring. Employee uncertainty following the merger was clearly reflected in the dramatically low scores in their employee...
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