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Effective teams reduce stress. New research has highlighted the weaknesses in many team development approaches and driven the creation of a completely new way to build great teams.
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Do you spend more than 10% of your week managing personnel issues or resolving differences between people?
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Do you struggle to get things done in other parts of the organisation where you have no direct reports?
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Is your business struggling to achieve its goals as more work is piled on?
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Yes?
Then you have a team problem.
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Research results from more than 600 teams over the last 10 years:
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Strong teams are weak in:
• Innovation and entrepreneurship
• Pace of operation
• Meeting management
• Anticipation and preparation
• Collaboration
• Resolving inter-personal differences
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Weak teams are weak in:
• Goal setting, planning or adhering to plans
• Prioritising action
• Team structure, roles, responsibilities and rewards
• Entrepreneurism and innovation
• Pace of operation
• Meeting management
• Relationships - trust, collaboration, resolution of interpersonal differences
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Most of these issues are about the “harder” aspects of team functioning, not the “softer” aspects.
The balance between internal focus and external focus correlates strongly with team performance.
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You need a quick, easy way to understand what the team is good and bad at, which looks at hard as well as soft stuff.
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You need input from stakeholders.
And you need a simple way to prioritise what needs to be improved.
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But, team development approaches:
• Only look at the soft stuff
• Produce unfathomable results which cannot be actioned
• Are frequently cobbled-together assessments of individuals, polished and priced to excess
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The Leap Team Index “overcomes all of these problems”
- Jeremy Marchant, Emotional Intelligence At Work.
The Leap Team Index:
“…contributed to a 15 fold growth in our profits…”
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“…we our hit our client service, income and cost targets for the year, all of which required double digit improvement…”
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“…transformation in team and commercial performance has been remarkable…”
