The Natural Leader

High performing teams

A high performing team finds the optimum balance between what they need to 'do' and how they want to 'be'. They already know what they want to achieve. Instead they focus on how to achieve it. They nurture behaviours and habits of inclusion, they pay attention and energy to introducing curiosity and positivity in order to heighten and accelerate performance.

High Performing Team Programmes

1. Global teams

Create a sense of proximity, belonging and relationships to influence across the miles and across cultures.

A common challenge: Responsible for facing challenges on a global scale and spread across wide geographic locations, these are the teams that must activate, enable and engage audiences across distance. For them, senior stakeholder influencing is a daily practice, the opportunity is to adapt and flex their way of being in order to create change.

Our work: Our work creates high performing global teams who are able to create a sense of proximity, belonging and relationships across the miles and across cultures. These are the teams who are exceptional at building rapid and real human connection, often through the medium of virtual connection. Face-to-face is precious, conscious of the high cost and impact of global travel. For them, senior stakeholder influencing is a daily practice, so our work focuses solely on how to adapt and flex their way of being, in order to create change on the global stage.

The outcome: Yet to influence big agendas, on behalf of the planet, they must collectively create relationships, challenge and compel others across their global system of influencers – from peers, competitors and NGOs to governments, policy setters and thought leaders. Creating a sense of team, maintaining a momentum that feels natural and thriving in relentless leadership requires the highest levels of personal and professional resilience, despite often working in isolation.

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2. C-Suite and executive teams

Realise the next level performance in service of the board, teams and organisations they serve.

A common challenge: Already the most experienced and most senior leaders, this isn’t about models, approaches, tactics, strategy or systems. This teams already knows what it needs to do and collectively represents a wealth of leadership knowledge, experience and intellect. This isn’t about the doing, this team already excels at that.

Our work: Appeals to those seeking exceptional performance in service of the board and the team they serve. We work with those who seek the next level in effectiveness. It reaches beyond what is known and instead focuses only on how to maximise the way they choose to be together. We begin with the team as a single leadership entity and reveal to its members the deeper levels of intelligence that it already holds and can support them in achieving their aims.

The outcome: We actively work to realise the natural value held in the collective team, becoming intentional with vision and design, becoming conscious of behaviours and becoming powerful in choices. Facing collectively the limitations and opportunities in the existing patterns of thinking, behaving or communicating, we begin to ignite news ways of being. We explore the diversity of strengths, the common values, the range of perspectives and experiences. Defining these natural resources and articulating the accidental ways of being which may prevent optimum and effortless performance. This is a reset, a deeper dive, a natural refresh, a new perspective on a group that is already working brilliantly but seeks the next level.

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3. Senior leadership teams

Become conscious and intentional. Develop the highest sense of collective, leadership intelligence across the range of senior expertise.

A common challenge: Often bringing a multitude of perspectives and expertise, representing a wide ranging number of disciplines across one organisation, the senior leadership team is a highly capable and resourceful collective. This isn’t about collective skills and knowledge. This is about conscious choice, collective creation, accountability for shaping and delivering future performance, modelling leadership and the most effective personal and collective communication.

Our work: We begin by revealing the natural intelligence held within the team members, highlighting every capability, strength and voice that the individual brings when they feel seen and heard. Maximising their full, leadership potential. This is a strongly positive team experience as they accept and embrace the collective strength brought by individual differences. The base level for ways of being as a team is realised and raised. From here we move to collective design, vision, reputation and relationship. This creates an agenda that enables and elevates what the team has to ‘do’ by heightening their levels of ‘being’ to align with their levels of ‘doing’.

The outcome: A new awareness around team intelligence, a higher sense of the collective entity and high quality, bold decisions and behaviours that will transform performance.

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4. Brand new teams

Accelerate effectiveness through creating grounding, resourcefulness, certainty and direction, while providing the most fertile ground on which to flourish.

A common challenge: Of course, a brand new team needs grounding, certainty and direction. The opportunity is to involve and empower the team from the outset, to enable them to find their own roots and connect from the very beginning as a group of brilliant individuals, long before the word ‘team’ is mentioned. This is a one chance only opportunity. Do it now, before the team work begins and you will provide the most fertile ground on which the team can flourish.

Our work: Our work begins by enabling every team member to tap into their individual and unique brilliance. Creating a positive, high energy and safe space of acceptance, curiosity and celebration creates natural, lasting bonds. There is much work to do here. Only when every individual understands who they are, what they bring, what others can rely on them for and what they will be requesting from others can the team work begin. We move into conscious design. The themes we share, the values we hold and wish to place at our core, the way of being and the boundaries we want to put into place that will allow us to perform at our very best, effortlessly. Then we imagine with boldness, we stretch our thinking and envision the impact that we can make. What at first may have seemed beyond reach, is accelerated, achieved and quickly realised and we find that the team must design once more.

The outcome: A fully and naturally resourced team, highly aware of each other and habitually celebrating and inviting difference. This grounded team begins on a firm footing, has collectively designed who they are and how they want to be. At the very beginning of their growth, they are accountable for their shared future success and take responsibility for their part in it. Relationship is at their heart.

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5. New leaders of existing teams

With one chance to ‘join well’, find the optimal balance between existing and new while standing in who you are and what you believe.

A common challenge: As a new leader of an existing team, you are joining an established way of being, accepted behaviours, unwritten expectation and a heightened sense of anticipation of what a new leader may bring. In this leadership micro-climate, the leader must navigate and read the existing system, create certainty while embracing the uncertainty of inevitable change, ensure the continuation of flourishing practices while forging new and emerging paths, align your team around the vision you hold, and gain acceptance and alignment before the work of raising the performance in your team.

Our work: This is personal work. Working with the leader to realign them with their new leadership environment, our work grounds the leader in their most powerful and natural state, works to connect their values and purpose to this new system, integrates their strengths, articulates and communicates their compelling personal and professional vision.

The outcome: Immediate authenticity and gravitas, clarity of direction and expectation among those they lead, effective story and telling of it across channels and stakeholders, a renewed natural personal brand that is compelling, attractive and evokes engagement of others.

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6. Merging teams

Unleash the power of intention, cooperation and design to create value that is greater together than apart.

A common challenge: Merging teams bring together existing habits, perspectives, cultures, behaviours and sometimes unwritten rules. Blending for the best performance, this is a chance to renew, refresh and reconnect with the innate natural talents of this group, both as a collective and individuals. What is the shared vision around which we can all align? Let’s be real, what about the danger spots? What are we really good at and where are the opportunities?

Our work: Bring out the best in the team, show them what they have, align them around the possibilities and evidence their collective strength. This is about reality, actively embracing difference, choosing perspectives and equipping the person and the team so that they feel aligned, engaged and ready to move to action.

The outcome: The best of both worlds of ‘being’. Protect the existing value and resources in the team and maximise the potential that coming together affords. Bring clear and transparent acknowledgement of the realities, a co-designed ‘way of being’ that best supports what the new team needs to do, an acceptance of ‘letting go’ and moving into the new reality with an aligned, abundant and healthy mindset.

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7. Teams in change

The opportunity to reset, redesign and resource as a collective in such a way that the new becomes more compelling than the old.

A common challenge:
The cost of getting change wrong is high. Teams work in ever changing environments. Maintaining the ability to be at their best, regardless of the ever changing environment, is a common challenge that – when done with care and investment in its members – can be easily avoided. Poor handling of change can have long lasting ramifications not just on productivity but also health and wellbeing, as well as motivation and engagement.

Our work:
We work with you to press the pause button and plan the change. This is not just an act of risk or cost mitigation, this is a very rich opportunity to reset, reinvigorate and refresh the team. Reflecting on the realities of where we are, what resources we have and who we are, we’ll challenge and stretch your thinking into what could be possible when optimal and enduring teamwork is achieved. Creating the compelling vision by hearing all the voices, aligning personal values and strengths, predicting and preparing for the challenges that we may face with creativity and resourcefulness. When the sense of team purpose, mission and vision is embedded and each member is given the space and opportunity to connect with it, changes can often be accelerated, sustained and surpassed.

The outcome:
Creation of and engagement with a new, more compelling team vision
Shared acceptance around team realities and resources
Prediction and confidence in approach to obstacles
Developed sense of team culture and ownership
Accelerated change and team performance
Heightened levels of engagement, motivation and wellbeing
Greater personal engagement, resilience and empowerment

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8. Design to your needs

The courage to be stretch thinking, challenge the norm, to be bold in service of others.

Brief us:
We invite you to access all our resources, expertise and experience here. Bring your current situation and desired objectives to our conversation.

Our response:
We gain huge personal and professional fulfilment when we are best able to support you. Our promise is to listen intently, design boldly and challenge you in our response with creative and fresh thinking. And, of course, to bring years of experience in our work to your work. That means you can be confident that the approach we propose works.

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High performance, naturally

Work out how you want to ‘be’ as a team and the ‘doing’ becomes easy. Discover who you are as a team, the strengths you have, the values you share and the differences that strengthen team performance.

We’ll work with you to create your compelling vision, articulate your mission and ground everything you do in a team purpose. Design how you will handle controversy or confrontation while maintaining team integrity. Map the relationships you hold by quality and quantity, prioritise those you wish to strengthen, work with the reality of your reputation and towards the reputation you inspire to hold. Become intentional and conscious about who you are as a collective and as a group of individuals working together. Reveal all the intelligence available to you in the system that is your team.

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What makes a high performing team?

A high performing team knows what they need to ‘do’, when they understand what they design how they choose to ‘be’ together performance is heightened and accelerated.

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What are the 10 attributes of a high performing team?

The collection of individuals that form a team become highly effective, resilient and able to achieve outstanding and relentless performance when they align the individual with the collective.

  • Have a clear vision and mission
  • Understand their collective and individual strengths
  • Invite and celebrate difference, are actively inclusive
  • Define 'how' they wish to be as a team, the team charter
  • Flex their communication preferences according to their audience
  • Appreciate and use the differing leadership preferences
  • Craft 'their' story
  • Edit and adapt their story to internal and external audiences
  • Articulate everything they do by outcome and impact
  • Feel a natural sense of belonging to the team and each other

In a few short steps....

We can be working together in just a few short steps.

  1. A conversation

    You talk, we listen and we chat

  2. We reflect

    On what you need

  3. We design

    Creating the perfect blend

  4. Together we refine

    Ensuring it is engaging, fun and fruitful

  5. We begin

    The best part