“Work is easy; People are difficult.”
That’s a slide we flash in our workshops. Staff expectations often pose a major challenge for many organisations. As a leader do you wonder why? After all, a skilled and talented worker could be a lot more effective if he or she didn’t have to plod and meander through daily arguments, damaging gossips, cliques and office politics.
The ramifications of these challenge can manifest in various forms, including absenteeism, a reluctance to take accountability, a culture of blame, siloed departments, underemployment, disengagement, low morale, stress to mention a few.
Here’s how we help our clients solve these challenges at every level in their organisation.
1. High-Level Strategic Planning Workshops — because it starts at the leadership level
Leadership is crucial in setting the tone for an entire organisation. Teams that do not have a
vision, mission and a set of values, clearly communicated to them will encounter many issues.
Here are some that could be the cause of your “People Problem.”
- Lack of Direction – Without a clear vision, teams may struggle to understand their goals and objectives, leading to confusion and a lack of focus on priorities. This can result in inefficiency and missed opportunities as team members work in different directions to achieve their KPIs and performance benchmarks. This can create frustrations and confusion that lead to people problems.
- Decreased Morale and Engagement – Without a clearly defined mission and the right values, staff may feel as though they are grasping at straws to complete a project. The team feels disconnected from the organisation’s purpose and culture. This leads to lower morale, reduced motivation, and increased turnover as staff seek more purposeful and meaningful work. Again this can create frustrations and confusion that lead to people problems.
- Poor Decision-Making – Having a vague or absent vision can hinder the decision-making process within the team. Without a shared understanding of the mission and values, team members may make choices that are misaligned with organisational goals, resulting in inconsistent outcomes and potential conflicts. This can create frustrations and confusion that lead to people problems.
Our Offer: We offer high-level strategic planning workshops tailored for company leaders.
This series of workshops are designed to help your leadership teams clearly articulate and refine their vision, mission, and guiding principles—clarifying their goals and aligning them with the organisation’s overall strategy.
We help guide the process through multiple sessions, motivating your leaders to brainstorm, engage in discussions, and exchange their thoughts and ideas. This helps to formulate or reevaluate the current vision, purpose, mission, and values. It is followed by implementing actionable plans to disseminate them throughout the organization. In the process we they create clear roadmaps and communication strategies to ensure alignment across the entire organization.
2. Cultivating Team Dynamics – Training the Managers to build, motivate and manage their teams
Team dynamics play a crucial role in influencing both productivity and job satisfaction. People do not easily unite to function effectively as a team, particularly when each person brings their own narrative, biases, and expectations regarding work, collaboration, and one another. This can create frustrations and confusion that lead to people problems.
To tackle this challenge, we must first acknowledge that any dissatisfaction within the team, creates ‘People Problems’.
These challenges can be mitigated and addressed using the TeamSense® framework.
Rooted in the Law of Reciprocity and an understanding of human behaviour, TeamSense® cultivates a collaborative culture by encouraging individuals to recognise and value one another through six different lenses. This approach enables everyone to empathise and understand how each person contributes to the success and well-being of others. These six lenses are:
- The Law of Reciprocity
- Safety
- Climate and Culture
- Attainment
- Leadership
- Engagement
More than the typical ‘team-building’ activity centred event, our workshops are thoughtfully designed with engaging learning activities and simulations that foster personal accountability, mastery, empathy, awareness of individual communication styles, interdependence, continuous learning, and synergy.
Our workshops enable teams to understand their responsibilities toward the overall vision and mission, recognise their individual roles in the company’s success, and learn how to collaborate effectively by leveraging each other’s strengths. This method not only strengthens team unity but also empowers your employees to take ownership of their contributions.
Our Offer: We present Synergy Shift, a series of workshops specifically designed for managers, high-potential employees, and supervisors. This workshop series encourages your managers to evaluate their mental models while providing them with the tools and frameworks to manage their teams in a more deliberate and strategic way. Among these tools are the implementation of the TeamSense® framework, coaching frameworks, profiling tools and guidelines for establishing a strong, sustainable team culture.
3. Personal Leadership Development
While team dynamics play a crucial role, it is the individuals who fundamentally establish the team’s foundation. A team after all is made up of individuals. It is important to understand this as the collective quality of the team is greatly influenced by the mindsets, motivations, and attitudes of each member.
Until one can effectively lead oneself, it becomes highly challenging to guide others. This can create frustrations and confusion that lead to people problems.
We believe that nurturing each person’s leadership potential enhances overall organisationa performance, as it inadvertently produces loyal and responsible staff. Our Personal Leadership Development workshops are designed to help potential managers and leaders identify their strengths, set personal goals, and develop skills that align with both their career ambitions and organisational objectives.
Our Offer: Coaching sessions and workshops that focus on personal growth, leadership skills, and emotional intelligence. By investing in individual development, you enable your leaders to thrive in their roles, leading to a more engaged and motivated workforce.
4. Strategies for a Cohesive Workforce – Team Bonding Workshops and Games
So this is where we conduct highly engaging team building activities designed to foster closer relationships, enhance cohesiveness and engagement. We believe this is the perfect way for you to start experiencing what we offer. It’s your ‘low-cost’ way to experience and assess our high-touch team and leadership development workshops.
These activity-driven workshops are tailored for the general workforce, employing a variety of strategies to identify and address your team’s most pressing challenges in a fun and enjoyable atmosphere. These carefully designed activities take place in half-day segments, to either promote better communication, increased collaboration, enhanced trust, deeper empathy and stronger bonds a team.
Reach out to us for more details on the various activities and options available.
Ongoing Support and Follow-up
We recognise that addressing the ‘people problem’ requires tailored solutions rather than a generic approach, and it’s an ongoing process, not a one-time fix. Our dedication to our clients extends beyond single workshops; we offer continuous support and follow-up sessions to reinforce the concepts learned and evaluate their application and results in the workplace.
We recommend that even our Team Bonding Activities and Workshops be conducted once every three to four months, to ensure continuous team engagement to lessen the ‘people problem’.
Our focus is on four essential areas:
- High-Level Strategic Planning Workshops for Leaders,
- Cultivating Team Dynamics,
- Personal Leadership Development,
- and various team bonding strategies for fostering a cohesive workforce.
Through the TeamSense® framework, we strive to nurture strong leadership habits, the culture of empathy, greater collaboration and effective team-and people management skills.
Today, employee engagement is more vital than ever; we are there to collaborate with any organisation that is looking to improve it’s overall health by minimising it’s ‘People Problem’. We can help unlock your team’s potential and cultivate a thriving culture where every member contributes to and benefits from shared success.