Collective Mental Toughness

Collective Mental Toughness

Oct 29, 2021 | Mental Toughness, Teams

  Having mentally tough individuals in the team is one thing, having a mentally tough team is something else. We all bring strengths to a team, some of us are heads down and focussed on achieving the team’s objectives, some of us are questioning the team’s...
The C-Suite

The C-Suite

Oct 3, 2021 | Leadership, Teams

  Having a C-Suite is one thing; having a C-Suit leadership team is something else and having a real C-Suite leadership team, empowered, engaged and aligned, is ……………………….. not easy. C-Suite leadership teams are difficult beasts as egos are usually omnipresent A...
Team development

Team development

Sep 17, 2021 | Teams

  “A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong” Tecumseh, a Shawnee Indian chief The first teambuilding I was involved in as a facilitator was in 1988; it was a week-long outdoor based event for the twelve-member management team of the Rolls-Royce...
Rainbow Teams

Rainbow Teams

May 7, 2021 | Teams

Teams, like individuals, have their characteristics. Some teams are action oriented with their sights firmly on their deliverables; full of focussed energy and committed and accountable for what they are engaged in. On the downside they can be so task oriented that...
What exactly is team building?

What exactly is team building?

Feb 2, 2021 | Teams

I ran my first team building in 1987 and I have lost count of how many I have run since – for project teams, change teams, sales teams, management teams……. Before we try to understand what teambuilding is and what is meant by it, here are a few lines on the...
When is a team not a team?

When is a team not a team?

Feb 1, 2021 | Teams

Collections of individuals masquerading as teams within organisations has never been uncommon; so, when is a team not a team? The answer is actually more often than not; many of the project teams, the management teams, the design teams, the production teams and the...