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 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 2:
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 3:
The team’s level of motivation. The emotional connection with work and each other, the underlying ability to change.
Deepen awareness of how members of a team perceive each other.
Possible workshop: Johari window blindspots
Be able to speak honestly in meetings even on difficult topics
Possible workshop: Check-in/out and feelings
Have shorter, more productive meetings
Possible workshop: Team agreements
Create a collaborative, adaptable system for managing project aesthetics.
Possible workshop: Atomic design