The current combined results have highlighted these three areas as those most in need of attention. While the specific next actions taken by the team should arise from a shared review, here are some of our suggestions for the kind of training that can often be of benefit.
Improvement area 1:
The tools, resources and support needed to do the work that needs to be done.
Be able to identify and communicate what you need
Possible workshop: Recognising needs
Create working conditions that support mental and physical health
Possible workshop: Healthy working practices
Understand how to create your own digital tools
Possible workshop: Fundamental digital practices
Get to grips with the “data driven” headspace
Possible workshop: How to think in data
Improvement area 2:
The team’s ability to reach a goal together. Breaking work into smaller parts that can be effectively distributed according to ability - and then the ability to put all the pieces back together again and finish the job.
Avoid getting stuck waiting for agreement and approval.
Possible workshop: Collective decision making
Allow members of your team to deepen their trust by sharing authority and responsibility.
Possible workshop: Dynamic roles
Stop spending hours discussing possible solutions, and then never agreeing what to do.
Possible workshop: Governance meeting facilitation
Allow team members to understand what progression within the organization looks like.
Possible workshop: Skills matrix
Really be clear about what people expect from each other.
Possible workshop: Peer to peer agreements
Improvement area 3:
The clarity of the organization’s vision, and how well it is communicated with everyone involved.
Learn how to identify and articulate the problems you are trying to solve.
Possible workshop: Problem definition
Manage your long term plans in a way that supports autonomy.
Possible workshop: Roadmaps
Develop techniques to explore unforeseen possibilities
Possible workshop: Working with randomness
Create strategies that define the change you seek to achieve without specifying how to achieve it.
Possible workshop: The possibility