Program
Team Effectiveness & Collaboration Training
Turning a group of capable individuals into a team that is actually effective together.
- Duration
- 1–2 days
- Format
- In-person team session
- Group size
- Intact team, up to 20
The problem we are solving
Teams are usually assembled for capability and left to work out how to operate together. When that goes unspoken, disagreement gets avoided, reliance is uneven and decisions get relitigated.
Politeness is often mistaken for collaboration. The team looks harmonious and the difficult issues never reach the table.
About this program
Teamwork and collaboration training for people who are strong individually but create friction across a team. It builds the habits that make someone genuinely easy to work with: clear communication, reliable follow-through and constructive disagreement.
Ideal for cross-functional and project teams that need to work well together without a reporting line to enforce it.
What changes in behaviour
- Agree explicit working norms and decision rights
- Disagree productively without personalising it
- Rely on colleagues and be relied upon
- Give and take feedback inside the team
- Work effectively across locations and cultures
- Recover trust after a breakdown
What the program covers
- What makes teams effective
- Roles, norms and decision rights
- Productive disagreement
- Trust and reliance
- Distributed and cross-cultural working
- Team charter and commitments
Who it is for
- Intact teams, new or restructured
- Cross-functional project teams
- Teams working across locations and time zones
- Is this a team-building event?
- It uses experiential activity, but the output is a working agreement, not a day out.
Start with one cohort. Judge the behaviour change.
Most engagements begin as a single pilot cohort, so your team can evaluate the facilitation and the follow-through before a wider rollout.