Alignment Over Agreement

• Alignment over Agreement 1

• This film is about how to create a team where each individual knows the business's vision, goals, and top challenges; and is personally motivated to help the business reach its goals.

• Alignment over Agreement 2

• A look at how to develop trust and alignment by an examination of best and worst team practices.

• Alignment over Agreement 3

• A deeper look at strategies to create trust and alignment in a team.

Personality Styles

• Personality Styles Introduction

• One of the keys to building a diverse and effective team is learning how to identify, understand, and use personality styles.

• Drivers

• In this video, we focus on the communication style known as 'The Driver'.

• Analytical

• In this video, we focus on the communication style known as 'The Analytical'.

• Amiable

• In this video, we focus on the communication style known as 'The Amiable'.

• Expressive

• In this video, we focus on the communication style known as 'The Expressive'.

• Review

• A person may relate to one style in a particular situation, while relating to another style in a different situation, or they may be a collection of all four personality styles at once!

Team Dynamics

• Team Dynamics Introduction

• This film is an introduction to understanding group dynamics so you will know how to organise a set of disparate people into a team, rather than a collection of individuals.

• Forming

• Forming' is the stage at which the team comes together and its members start to work with one another.

• Storming

• As its name implies 'Storming' can be a tumultuous time for the team.

• Norming

• During the 'Norming' stage the team integrates more, having resolved some of their differences; and team members start to bond.

• Performing

• At the 'Performing' stage, teams are focused on the common goal, and they can reach unprecedented levels of delivery and success.

BECKS

• BECKS Introduction

• BECKS is the acronym for a framework you can use to assess a team.

• Behaviour

• More and more, Working Voices finds its clients expressing frustration with other people’s behaviour. This film makes some helpful suggestions.

• Environment

• We need to acknowledge the difficulties as well as the opportunities that the working Environment may present.

• Clarity

• A simple principle of team engagement is that good communication contributes to great performance.

• Knowledge and Skills

• The common purpose shared by a group of people is what defines them as a team; but you could argue that it’s knowledge that unites them.

Actions

• Actions

• As we've seen, working as part of a team and leading one is complex and dynamic and needs to be addressed carefully and thoughtfully. Here's a reminder of the things we've discussed and things you need to be doing.