Do you have excellent directors sat around your Boardroom table? All experienced in their own right? All wanting the best for the business?
Yes… but…
Are they all working together as a team? Are they supporting each other? Are they creating more than the sum of the parts? Do they share ideas and spark even more ideas? Do they find solutions? Do they create fresh thinking? They can with great teamwork!
The starting point is TRUST. This is the foundation. With TRUST:
But how do you establish TRUST ?
TRUST is built on self-awareness (weaknesses as well as strengths), an ability to relate to others (adapting styles), and an encouragement of alternative perspectives (diversity of thinking).
When your people truly understand themselves, and each other, the potential of your business goes through the roof.
Many companies understand this and use psychometric tools to support this self-awareness of individuals and teams. At Growth Plans, we are accredited practitioners of Insights Discovery which is actually kitemarked by the BPS (British Psychological Society) along with other global standards. Insights Discovery looks at personality preferences – it provides context around what comes easily to some people, and what others find draining – helping you to create a team which maximises its strengths and energies.
“The whole process has helped the leadership team work together more closely, because they have a greater appreciation and a degree of empathy for an individual’s working style. This, in turn, filters down through their teams because they understand how people want to be worked with. One of the big things we’ve taken away from this is that working against a personality type can be counterproductive for the whole business.”
MD, Matthew Brown, Uzin Utz UK Ltd.
By understanding how best to work with each other, you will nurture a culture of TRUST. Once you have this TRUST within your Board, you will need to maintain it and spread it throughout the wider business with:
With TRUST as the basis, teamwork is achieved by pulling together the resources of the individuals to spark off each other. And with a professional hand at the helm, this is where the alchemy happens creating great teamwork – greater than the sum of the parts!
Growth Plans Ltd works with Boards from a variety of industries The businesses are always profitable and comprise good, experienced directors and staff.
So why work with them? Because there is always potential! Potential to be even better. Potential to work together and flourish and be even more highly performing.
Growth Plans Ltd helps clients achieve great teamwork – greater than the sum of the parts!
You may wish to find out about the Growth Plans Ltd executive coaching; leadership away days and Leadership Boards®.
Let’s grow potential together. Contact Liz Whitfield to see if she is right for you and you are right for Growth Plans®. [email protected]
