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Most teams aren’t working as well as they could. Is your team rising to the challenge?
In the many and varied organisations we work with, both small and large, we see a frustratingly consistent pattern emerging – far too many teams just don’t work well enough.
We frequently encounter teams that lack deep curiosity, are unwilling to invest time for self-reflection and creative thinking and are unable to challenge the status quo. They have become stuck. The resulting tension inhibits the team's ability to thrive and excel. Not surprisingly, this also has a negative impact on the people they serve and the broader organisational health and performance.
This results in teams that are limiting their potential and performance, with people just going through the motions, or worse undermining each other. Rather than being focused on the future and tackling the key challenges as the world changes around them, these teams are consumed with firefighting and reacting to daily challenges, finding faults, blaming and being self-centred.
In most organisations, this is a situation that simply cannot be allowed to go on.
Even if your team is doing ok in some areas, how confident are you that they are performing to the maximum of their potential?
If you’re not totally confident, how big a risk is it to leave this unaddressed?
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