We apply our method in 3 areas:
Team Effectiveness
Leadership Effectiveness
Culture Effectiveness
The Formulas use the power of the way leaders, teams and culture combine to achieve faster results. This is because building effective teams and running effective meetings are common in all three. That’s why we combine the Fast Teaming Formula with the Polaris Formula to power up our solutions.
What We Do
How do we work with you?
We work alongside you to tailor-make individual programmes that will rapidly improve culture, teams or leadership.
Each engagement looks different, but we’ll use a combination of:
Diagnostics
Interviews
Workshops (2 hour to multi-day overnight off-sites)
Coaching
Meeting observation and feedback
Because the Fast Teaming Formula and Polaris are simple and quick to understand and use, engagements are short, concentrated and effective.
Find out how we do it for:
Team Effectiveness
Everything we do is about getting teams to work together faster and better. We fast-track the forming of new teams, transform the dysfunctional or mediocre and build resilience in teams already working well.
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Our breakthrough research in developing our Formulas has been endorsed by eminent academics such as Amy Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School.
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We discovered that the quicker a team builds cognitive-based trust (the belief in a team that we’re all on the same page) the earlier the team starts to perform well. This isn’t just essential for extreme teams, but for today’s workplace teams too. We know that without sufficient cognitive-based trust, it’s almost impossible for a team to feel psychologically safe.
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Psychological safety creates the conditions where people feel safe to speak up, take risks, and be themselves without fear of embarrassment, punishment or exclusion. With that foundation, nearly every aspect of team performance improves.
This is why, using the Fast Teaming Formula, we’re quickly able to get your teams tight, committed and effective. With the Polaris Formula, they deliver much better results by collaborating more effectively with each other and with other teams.
We work at any level; with executives and senior managers as well as your front-line, project, cross-functional and extreme teams. The more challenging the teaming context, the better-equipped we are to help
“The research, thinking and training from Team Up has been a huge catalyst for our team achieving higher performance outcomes.”
Better virtual teams too
Running a virtual or hybrid team?
We have extensive experience of working with virtual teams.
Leadership Effectiveness
Because we see leaders as important parts of their teams (rather than teams being parts of important leaders), we focus on helping them to do what they are paid do – be excellent at leading their ‘dressing rooms’.
We help you make the Fast Teaming Formula and Polaris a central part of the way leaders and their teams work.
We tailor our approach to you, often using a combination of:
Training groups of leaders in our Fast Teaming and Polaris Formulas
Coaching leaders to use the Formulas with their teams
Training you - or your L&D colleagues - to train your leaders
This gives you instant access to proven, robust techniques which deliver fast improvements with no need for extensive programmes or processes.
“I can vouch for the way Team Up trains leaders — our senior leadership population helped transform our ‘nice’ culture to one that was commercially very successful.”
We integrate with your existing leadership development activity
Polaris training integrates seamlessly with other leadership development. In fact, it’s simple-to-follow and use structure helps drive it forward.
So, while it’s powerful on its own, Polaris also enhances the effectiveness of your own current programmes.
CALL US TO DISCUSS A LEADERSHIP PILOTCulture Effectiveness
Culture doesn’t come from what’s written on the walls or in the annual report - you see it in every interaction across your organisation, between and in teams, every time people meet.
We work with you on a bespoke, fast-track, cultural development plan. Central to our approach is how we train you to use the Polaris Formula to make your target culture come alive in meetings. Instead of talking about culture. we train you to “do culture, right here, right now”. If you already have a target culture, and you want to see more of it, Polaris integrates with it seamlessly.
That’s because the behaviours that define a high-performing culture are the same as those in a high-performing team. Whatever cultural changes you want to see, Polaris can help your leaders and teams amplify them in every meeting.
Polaris gives you the culture you want right from the first meeting. Training leaders and teams to use it gets them out of their silos, working towards an agreed common goal with minimal friction.
“The program, with a particular focus on team effectiveness at the top levels, but also aligning leadership, talent management and recruitment, was one of the few programs that I have been part of that has really driven sustainable transformational culture change.”