Team Coach

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

Effective teams outperform effective leaders, every time. Teams achieve what no other entity can.  

The Team Better Together Program unlocks the power in teams to access the collective capacity and capability to achieve the greatest things possible.

Benefits of the program

 Teams that have participated in the program, claim they:

  • Spend half the time and energy focused on reacting to tactical issues and double the time and energy focused on the strategic and transformational imperatives

  • Double the level of trust team members have in each other 

  • Halve the time wasted in unproductive meetings

  • Double the level of productivity and quality of output from team meetings

  • Feel safe to speak more of their truth - twice as much is spoken about than unspoken

  • Operate at more than the sum of its parts for more of the time – they flourish more than flounder 

  • Double the levels of team member engagement as a team

  • Team achievements are recognised more than individual accomplishments

High performing, collaborative teams distinguish themselves by their commitment to embed these 5 disciplines:

Discipline 1: DISCOVERY – they know and understand their stakeholders’ mandate

Discipline 2: DECLARE – they are unified by a common shared purpose

Discipline 3: DESIGN – they build quality working relationships

Discipline 4: DELIVER – they hold themselves accountable to the team’s collective goals

Discipline 5: DEVELOP – they are always learning with and from one another

To find out more about how the Team Better Together Program enables teams to transition to become collaborative, flourishing teams, simply call on ‭+61 414 654 437‬ or email me and let’s make some time to meet.

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.

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)