01

Awareness of Self and Others

Using DiSC profiles, team members are able to better understand themselves and their colleagues'  communication preferences, drivers, motivators and stressors.

02

Building better relationships

Through enhanced awareness, team members are encouraged to work on strategies to connect, problem-solve, and navigate tense situations together.

03

Managing conflict

By understanding how colleagues are likely to engage in a difficult discussion team members are able to minimize bad feelings and ensure more productive conversations.

04

Managerial skills

Through enhanced awareness of styles, managers are able to become more effective with their subordinates.

01

Trust

Members of the team work on trusting one another on a fundamental, emotional level. Through various activities, members get comfortable being vulnerable with each other about their weaknesses, mistakes, fears, and behaviors.

02

Mastering Conflict

Members work on reaching a point where they do not hesitate to disagree with, challenge, and question one another, all in the spirit of finding the best answers and making the best decisions. Conflict becomes an expectation rather than the exception and members ensure conflicts are around ideas rather than interpersonal issues.

03

Commitment

By engaging in unfiltered conflict members are able to achieve genuine buy-in around important decisions, even when various members of the team initially disagree.

04

Accountability

Team members are coached to be at ease holding one another accountable for adhering to decisions. They work on mastering peer to peer feedback and not relying on the team leader as the primary source of accountability.

05

Collective Results

Finally the team is encouraged to work on setting aside individual needs and agendas and focus almost exclusively on what is best for the team and the company (rather than departments, career aspirations, or ego-driven status). This enhances the value of collective results over individual results.

01

Purpose

Defining / re-defining a clear purpose that requires the team to collaborate and allows each team member to understand similarly WHY the team exists.



02

Vision

Creating  a Transformation dynamic by envisioning the team in an enhanced and ideal future.

03

Strategy

Aligning on WHAT the team should focus on amongst all the things competing for its time, what its unique value proposition is, how the team differentiates itself from the rest of the organisation, the external world and competition.

04

Values

Determine the principles guiding HOW the team works and members behave, whether within the team, the organisation, or vis à vis the outside world.  Defining the behaviors attached to these values so values do not remain nice words on a website. 

01

Team diagnosis

Through fun activities the team draws the picture of the current state of things, what works, what does not, the successes, the pains, bottlenecks blockers, etc.

02

Envision Change

The team projects itself in an ideal transformed future.

03

Plan your roadmap

The team is encouraged to take ownership of its own transformation and establishes its Transformation Roadmap, broken down into  SMART goals, with owners and timelines.

04

Create Accountability

Finally the team is encouraged to establish its accountability mechanisms so that members follow through on the Transformation Roadmap.

01

Mapping reality

Through a fun exercise in small numbers, team members were able to share their thoughts and feelings about their reality, the positive and the negative.

02

Envisioning the best

Next, team members were asked to imagine their team post transformation, where everything changed for the best.

03

Transformation

Team members then used a transformation mindset to devise their transformation roadmap. This was done through identifying four key themes (e.g. team processes, stakeholder empowerment) and subtasks, each of which was assigned SMART goals (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-based). Team members committed themselves to their transformation and built a routine to regularly check-in on where they are with their transformation roadmap.

04

Purpose, Vision, Strategy

Through a series of questioning exercises, team members were able to collectively draft their purpose, the vision for their team, and their strategy (what they will focus on and how). This has helped the team align, collaborate and communicate more effectively.

01

Self-Awareness

Using DiSC profiles, the founders were able to better understand themselves, their communication preferences, drivers and triggers.

02

Understanding Each Other

Through a series of exercises using DiSC, they were able to learn about each others' styles and needs, using a new language, and then modify the way they communicate and deal with each other as a team of founders.

03

Team Dynamics

Founders became aware of the unconscious team dynamics and behavioral patterns they had developed. They were able to visualize the informal roles that each was taking within the team (e.g. the "practical voice", the "emotional one", the "quiet observer". They were then able to decide what needed to be changed for improved cohesion and performance.

04

Team Tasks

The founders used the team coaching to re-establish what Tasks they needed to undertake as a leadership team, versus as individuals with distinct technical roles. They were then able to fully embrace being part of a leadership team and create the structure and organisation/governance to support their leadership Tasks.