Teams that grow
Team dynamics, learning, hybrid and top teams.
Half a day exploring how established teams keep growing: hidden dynamics, team coaching and learning, hybrid and multi-agency teaming, and senior leadership teams.
- Level
- Explore
- Learning time
- 5 hours
- Where
- Team Development
- Price
- £129
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Read the full terms
Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Leaders of established teams looking to keep improving
Overview
This half-day programme looks at how established teams grow, and what holds them back. It begins with hidden dynamics drawn from Bion and Menzies Lyth and the leader's role as designer, coach and member. It explores team coaching through Hawkins's five disciplines, team learning and the After Action Review, virtual and hybrid working, and teaming across organisational boundaries. It then examines top teams in public services, including statutory officers and Northamptonshire County Council, and closes with the 1996 Everest disaster, Wales at Euro 2016 and the Manchester Arena response.
Aims
This programme aims to develop leaders who help mature teams keep growing: surfacing hidden dynamics, choosing the right leadership role, coaching and reviewing as a team, and leading well across distance, organisational boundaries and the top of the organisation, where the stakes are highest.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Diagnose hidden dynamics such as social defences and diffusion of responsibility, and choose whether to lead as designer, coach or member.
- Design team coaching, reflexivity and debrief practices that help a team improve through its own experience.
- Lead hybrid, multi-agency and senior leadership teams, applying evidence on distance, boundary spanning and the ways top teams go wrong.
What you'll develop
Across this Explore, you will develop the ability to:
- Identify Bion's basic assumptions of dependency, fight-flight and pairing when they appear in a group.
- Use the functional team leadership model to identify which leadership functions your team is missing.
- Describe Edmondson's team learning behaviours and West's team reflexivity cycle.
- Explain swift trust and how reliable behaviour sustains trust at a distance.
- Distinguish a single-leader unit from real team mode and choose deliberately which an agenda item needs.
- Apply team lenses such as voice, purpose and teaming to a real case, reading it forwards rather than with hindsight.
Built from 4 parts.
5 hours of learning.
- 01Beneath the surfaceTeam dynamics and the role of the team leaderBitesize2 modules
- 02Teams that learnTeam coaching, reflexivity and debriefsBitesize2 modules
- 03Across distance and boundariesHybrid teams and multi-agency workingBitesize2 modules
- 04At the top tableSenior leadership team developmentBitesize2 modules
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereExplore, 5 hours, £129
- The whole topicImmerse, The team that works, 11 hours, £249. Already own the Explore? You pay £120.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms