January Newsletter

January 2008

In This Issue

· New Year – A Time for Reflection and Change

· Team Renewal

· Performance Coaching

· New Team Activities

More information on all our services can be found via the following links

Performance Coaching

Unlock the full potential of your employees.

Winning Teams

Build and sustain a Winning Team.

Exploiting Diversity

Reduce conflicts and tension whilst increasing harmony and productivity.

Team Activities

Challenge your teamwork, and learn whilst having fun!.

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New Year – A Time for Reflection and Change

The start of a new year is always a good time to review what’s happened in the previous year – good and bad, positive and negative – and make a plan for the coming year. I’m not talking here about New Year’s Resolutions - those things we say we’ll do, but rarely fully accomplish! – but a properly considered plan of action, with a commitment to achieve.

As senior managers within a global organisation, this is something we used to do for ourselves, and our teams, each year. Please take a few minutes to look at how we can help you and your teams make 2008 a truly successful and fulfilling year.

Robert and Sue

Team Renewal

For a Winning Team to be sustained, it needs to be dynamic, and adapt to the changes which will undoubtedly happen. Those changes may be internal to the team, or initiated externally – either from outside the organisation or within it.

The start of each year is a good time to think about renewal for your team, the first question to ask is: ‘why should we continue on as a team?’ Just asking this may in fact be an energiser for the team, in reviewing its commitment.

Our renewal workshops are all about checking in, celebrating, taking stock, looking at what’s changed and what further changes or improvements we need to make in each of the six areas above.

Available now is a free team diagnostic, carried out by us, in advance of the Renewal Workshop.

Performance Coaching

Why don’t we organise people like we organise processes, making them incredibly efficient, fit for purpose at the lowest possible cost, and thus maximising the return on investment?

Could it be because everyone’s different, not always responding well to instructions, not always working well with those around them?

Raising an individual’s performance requires us to move people rapidly from reflection, through insight, to action, ideally inspired by a qualified professional.

Coaching sessions last up to sixty minutes each. During each session, the employee is encouraged to find their own solutions for improvement, in order to inspire a self-learning approach to change, and to increase commitment to action. It will normally take approximately six sessions for the majority of improvements to be explored, and actions identified and initiated. During this time other courses of action may be recommended, for example a personality assessment using MBTI.

As a measure of our confidence, we offer the first session free to any new team.

New Team Activities

The winter months have reminded us that not all teams appreciate our outdoor team challenges. With this is mind we set out in December to devise a new Team Activity which would energise and inspire teams, based on the principal learnings of Winning Teams.

Our latest addition, Team Tower, is a lively mix of mental dexterity, team tension, and physical activity – both indoors and outdoors. It can be run in any city, our first location is London.

Imagine the Management Team, working from an office in a central location, with access to an assortment of information. They direct their teams to a variety of locations, to gather information they need for the success of their project.

Imagine the Remote Teams, who need to help their managers whilst managing their own agendas.

Can the Management Team provide the right level of Leadership? Can the Remote Teams get their act together, and gel with their managers?

Tension is sure to arise. Misunderstandings will happen. Lessons will be learned. But beware, fun is also guaranteed!