TEAM PERFORMANCE ACCELERATORS
Help teams build stronger ways of working together that hold up when it matters most
If the work matters, the way your team works together becomes a priority too. Match the right accelerator to your most critical initiatives and strengthen the teams behind them.
Which team needs the biggest lift right now?
High Stakes Team
For cross-functional teams leading critical initiatives, programmes and transformations
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So you've pulled together the people everyone trusts to get a high-stakes project done.
They're all good at what they do. The commitment is there. But decisions are taking longer than they should. Ideas on how to get it done compete. Conversations go in circles.
Instead of speeding up the project, the team becomes the bottleneck.
High Stakes Team helps your cross-functional teams quickly establish how they'll work together before critical business priorities get stuck on everyone's to-do list again.
If this sounds familiar, now's the time to step in.
I'm forever changed...it's been a period of unlearning and relearning, working with Emma as part our project team. She helped us carve out a new path for culture and capability so we could create the foundations to scale the effort globally.
Leadership Teaming
For executive and senior leadership teams working across silos and competing priorities
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Every leader has a mandate to deliver. Every team has priorities that matter.
But when those priorities start pulling in different directions, leadership teams can spend more time negotiating trade-offs than creating a shared direction.
Leadership Teaming helps leaders break down silos, work through competing priorities and align around the choices and direction that matter most for the organisation.
Don't let functional priorities turn progress into a tug-of-war.
I can’t recommend Emma highly enough. She's my first and trusted choice for any strategy, purpose, culture or leadership session with my team. Time and again, she brings clarity to complex situations, helps us focus on what matters, and moves us forward with energy and optimism.
Team Health Tune Up
For established teams where performance has plateaued or friction is starting to build
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It starts small. But the signs are there…
A meeting where the same people keep talking and others stop weighing in.
A frustration that gets discussed after the meeting, but never in it.
A decision that gets the nod in the room, but gets questioned afterwards.
These little things start adding up. Over time, they start shaping how the team communicates, collaborates and gets things done.
Team Health Tune Up helps teams surface the issues that go unspoken, reset unhealthy patterns, and strengthen the habits that keep performance and relationships strong.
Don't let team frustrations become the culture.
Emma quickly understood what we were trying to achieve, skilfully navigating complexity and facilitating difficult conversations with confidence and care. Her energy and presence created an atmosphere of trust, openness, and curiosity. Her mastery of facilitation brought the team into genuine alignment, resulting in shared agreements people truly owned.
Change Forward
For teams navigating transformation, restructuring or ongoing uncertainty
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Change doesn't wait until everyone feels ready.
Priorities shift. Roles and expectations change. People are asked to adapt while still delivering what’s already on their plate.
Some people wait for more clarity while others start adapting in their own way.
Change Forward helps teams navigate uncertainty, build the confidence to adapt, and build the ways of working needed to keep moving forward together.
Don't let change pull your team in different directions.
Emma opens your eyes to new ideas and ways to get engagement and cooperation and lifts team morale with a charismatic, thoughtful and committed approach.
HOW IT WORKS
Ditch cookie-cutter workshops...
Your team won't leave with a binder full of best practices and expect to figure out the rest. Every accelerator is designed so they leave with a battle-tested way of working they've already applied and refined back at work.
PHASE 1:
Discover & Align
60 min conversation
We meet with key stakeholders to understand your context, review existing insights, and align on outcomes, success measures and logistics.
PHASE 2:
Design Success
Sprint 1 | Weeks 1-2: Workshop #1
We co-create the conditions that enable high performance as a team. A Sprint Captain is nominated each sprint to build shared ownership of the work ahead.
PHASE 3:
Pressure Test
Sprint 2 | Weeks 3-4: Workshop #2
The team puts its new ways of working into practice to see whether the conditions we've established hold up in day-to-day work.
PHASE 4:
Embed & Sustain
Sprint 3 | Weeks 5-6: Workshop #3
We embed the rhythms, routines and accountability that sustain the conditions for high performance in your team's day-to-day work.
PHASE 5:
Reflect & Accelerate
60 min conversation
We reconvene with key stakeholders to reflect on the engagement. You'll receive a comprehensive handover, equipping the team to drive the work forward.
Let's make sure the way your team works doesn’t get in the way of the work that matters.
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