Team Better Together

“It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and rare.”

- Patrick Lencioni

Helping executive, functional and project teams transition to become high performing, collaborative teams that flourish.

The Team Better Together Program enables teams to transition to become flourishing teams and:

  • focus on addressing strategic priorities and tactical imperatives

  • increase the level of trust between team members 

  • improve productivity and the quality of output from team meetings

  • feel safe to speak up and challenge each other’s thinking

  • recognise team achievements more than individual accomplishments

  • operate at more than the sum of the parts for more of the time  

  • accept accountability for the team’s collective performance goals  

Listen to Bernard discuss the difference between a leadership group and a leadership team:

Problems your team may experience …

  • decisions are made in isolation with little buy-in

  • ways-of-working aren’t agreed making it hard to build a culture

  • lack of trust so members don’t feel safe to speak up or challenge

  • meetings dominated by operational issues with no time for strategic priorities

  • team members don’t seek help nor feedback making it hard to build a learning culture

Does your team more often flounder, function, or flourish? To find out, take the quiz?

 

5 Disciplines that distinguish flourishing teams:

Discipline 1: DISCOVER – our Mandate. Teams know and understand their stakeholders’ mandate.

Discipline 2: DECLARE – our Purpose. Teams are unified by a common shared purpose.

Discipline 3: DESIGN – our Culture. Teams succeed through building quality working relationships

Discipline 4: DELIVER – our Results. Team members hold themselves accountable to the team’s collective goals

Discipline 5: DEVELOP – our Learning. Team members take responsibility for their own and other’s learning, growth, and success.

The Team Better Together Program includes:

ANALYSIS PHASE
Conduct the 5 Disciplines of a High Performing Team assessment and 1:1 exploratory conversations to scope out what success looks like as a high performing team.

TEAM WORKSHOPS
Facilitated team workshops to embed each of the 5 Disciplines of a high performing team.

PEER ACTION LEARNING
To build a learning culture by supporting each other to apply the collective learnings.

EXECUTIVE COACHING
To support and enable the team’s leader to facilitate lasting positive behavioural change.

IN-TEAM COACHING
To support the team by facilitating learning, in real time, on real matters.

RETURN-ON-LEARNING EXPERIENCE (ROLE)
A post program re-assessment of the shift in each of the 5 Disciplines of a high performing team.

Bernard’s book, published in 2021, provides an in-depth perspective on what’s required to maximise team performance. Bernard also explains how the 5 disciplines are key to teaming better together.

It’s available for purchase in the shop.

 

To find out more about how the Team Better Together Program and participate in the 5 Disciplines of a High Performing Team, speak with Bernard on ‭+61 414 654 437‬ or email him.

Testimonials

  • I credit Bernard with helping us transform our business from a “good” company to a “great” company – he has helped us to understand where we are as a leadership team and what we need to do to take us from a functional team to a flourishing leadership team.

    — Diego Ascani (CEO - Sedgwick Australia)

  • The greatest and unique aspect that Bernard brought to the program – that I have rarely seen in any other facilitator – is his ability to enable people to think, feel and speak freely without fear of repercussion

    — Sean Dempsey (CEO – Plan Partners)

  • I have seen Bernard have a profound impact on personal careers and with Bernard’s guidance many of the team (including myself) have learnt the power of slowing down, of staying in the moment, or ‘staying in the question’ as Bernard would express it, to better observe what a certain scenario or discussion is surfacing. I highly recommend spending time in Bernard’s presence and if you are lucky enough to work him, make the most of every minute.

    — Stacey Tomasoni (CEO - Datacom Connect)

  • Bernard has helped us mould a newly formed, first-class, group of individuals into a seamless leadership team, collectively accountable for decision-making and speedier cross functional working in a high growth business.

    — Jane McNally (CEO - Camilla)

  • Bernard has helped us, as the leadership team, to understand and commit to teaming better together – Bernard helped us create a safe space to discuss the undiscussables through developing a culture of openness and trust with a clear team purpose and values.

    — Karen MCGoldrick (VP & MD – Invisalign ANZ)

  • Coming to identify the Executive team’s purpose as ‘We unlock possibilities’ has served to bring and focus our collective capability to achieve our 2020 strategy and beyond.

    — Mike Salisbury (CEO – McMillan Shakespeare Group)

  • The challenge for us was that we were a team of individuals. Bernard has helped us to adapt our approach to achieve as a team to reach the next level of results.

    — Toby Long (GM, NSW Residential - Mirvac)