Team

When your team is working well together, it feels effortless.  Everyone pulls in the same direction.  People get on well.  Performance is good.  Morale is high. 

But when things are not working well, given the multitude of factors that underpin team performance, it can be difficult to know where to focus your efforts.  Is it down to the blend of personalities?  Is it an issue with the systems and processes the team work to?  Maybe it’s about the interface with external stakeholders.  Or perhaps it’s down to lack of clarity on goals, roles or responsibilities.  And let’s not forget the complexity of the task at hand, the stretch targets and the pressure under which the team routinely work. 

The trouble is, it’s usually a combination of all these factors.

As clinical psychologists our expertise is focused squarely on making sense of complexity and helping people work together effectively. 

We know there’s never a good time for team development, especially when the budget is tight (and whose isn’t these days?).  Yet once teams have embarked on the process, we’ve never known anyone regret it.