Teams of Teams Insights – LSE Research 2021
Discover valuable insights on multi-team systems and how to leverage its benefits During the academic year 2021 a team from LSE carried out research into multi-team systems (MTS), defined as collections of teams that work toward a common goal. Their objective was to...
Leadership Update – October 2022
In this month’s Leadership Update, we lean into ongoing headlines about the great resignation, the challenges of hybrid working and quiet quitting. We agree with a lot of what’s written, but we also see good reason to feel optimistic, viewing this period as an...
How to get your ducks in a row – and why you need to align your team first
There’s one thing you can do with your team today that will help you manage the curse of busy-ness and make sure you’re not putting already strained resources under unnecessary pressure. It’s getting your team aligned. Making sure that everyone is on the same page and...
Leadership News and Research Update – August 2022
As Europe endures a heat wave, employers are feeling the heat too with the Great Resignation continuing to shift control to employees. In response, companies are looking for new ways to attract and keep staff. This is producing a new wave of ideas and lateral thinking...
Hybrid teams: are you asking the right questions?
Hybrid working, the question of where we work is still dominating conversations and headlines. As well as this blog, we asked Andy and Jennie (our Head of Design & Research and Manager of Operations) to share their thoughts on teams and hybrid working because we...
Free Team Diagnostic Assessment
As a leader you want to help your team reach their potential. Our free 5-step diagnostic assessment will help you to discover the gaps and opportunities within your team, so you can help them to be happier and perform better. It only takes a couple of minutes and at...
Research Summary July 2022
The conversation flowed so well in last month’s leadership chat that we asked Andy and Juliet to do it again. They picked three articles from the leadership longlist and delved beneath the headlines to explain the ‘so what?’. The result is a twenty-minute conversation...
The secret to executing your team’s plans successfully
How often do you see teams charging into a new project full of energy and enthusiasm only to collapse in a heap when once it’s been delivered or not get there at all because they’ve run out of steam and lost focus, returning to the comfort blanket of the old to-do...
Under the microscope: An insider’s perspective from one of our leadership programmes
To showcase the experience and impact on participants, this is the story of a Regional Manager who participated in one of our programmes for a global client, sharing his perspective on what it’s really like. What did your organisations want to achieve through...
Research Summary June 2022
This month Andy (our head of design & research) and Juliet (our research & data analytics lead) have chosen to discuss the following articles Diversity & inclusion: the gap between employee expectations and reality Radically human: bringing human values...
Bringing humanity to technology: our take on Accenture’s Radically Human
Technology has been used for decades (and arguably with more than a little success) to make humans and human processes more efficient. But in Radically Human two Accenture technology leaders explain how they see the greatest opportunities are in the ways humans can...