Most organisations understand that teams occasionally need a helping hand to optimise their performance. Problems for established teams can include personality clashes, conflicting individual priorities or a history of poor collaboration. Newly established teams may also benefit from some formal teambuilding activity to build relationships and help the group to move towards full performance as quickly and smoothly as possible.

Here at cda we have experience of designing and delivering teambuilding workshops across a range of sectors. We utilise a variety of techniques to build self- and group-awareness and help the team operate more effectively. These include providing team members with objective feedback using tools such as 360-feedback, psychometric tests, opinion surveys, and then moving on to work with the group to agree an action plan to improve team performance.

Following a restructuring of the Co-operative Bank Financial Advisers (CBFA) business, the management team found themselves with a completely new mix of team members. We provided a workshop-based forum for thinking about the changes, some analysis tools to help predict team behaviour and some techniques to deal with potential inhibitors of performance. The management team entered the change with the best possible preparation to help them bring their business’ own areas to maximum performance as quickly and effectively as possible.

We worked with Toyota GB to develop team working across the business. We used cdaq, our own personality tool, to help individuals to understand their own preferred style of thinking, decision making and relating to others and how these preferences affected the performance of their team.