Building your Team – a blueprint for success
Caroline Jory and Nigel Thomas’s ‘Building your Team’ coaching programme
Building your Team – a blueprint for success is a one - three day programme during which we take you and your people through the 7 key factors needed to create a high performing team.
It is designed for teams who want to work together to unlock their potential. We work with the team on what they need - whether it’s starting from scratch or improving an existing approach.
By the end of the programme we’ll provide your team with a bespoke blueprint to finesse and complete.
What are we offering?
The key ingredients in successful teams which retain talent are; effective communication; psychological safety & growth opportunities. We use Peter Hawkins's (2017) definition of team coaching in which ‘the primary client is the whole team, rather than the individual team members’ and base our programme on the Henley Business School's 7 characteristics for team coaching.
Purpose
Identity
Values and beliefs
Awareness
Relatedness
Ways of working
Transformation
Our Building Your Team programme draws on these 7 characteristics to transform how you and your people work together and the meaning they get from that work. The content and style of the programme is flexible depending on where you and your team are at, what you need, and how much time you have.
Here’s a taster...
… of some of the topics we provide that you may want to include in a programme designed for you and your team.
What and where you want to be
Creating a new vision
Dealing with obstacles
Goal setting for your team and its members
Team identity and belonging
Team communication and culture
Managing conflict
Squashing limiting beliefs
Celebrating your successes
Who will benefit from our Programme?
The whole team! A successful team has a clear purpose, a membership that is positive about its role and has strong feelings of belonging. And a successful team celebrates individual and collective productivity and success. But a successful and happy team does not just happen. It needs to be built and sometimes rebuilt and we believe this is best achieved together with the team. Our ‘building your team’ programme will be particularly beneficial to:
newly formed teams
teams not working well together
a new team leader or new members
teams who want to grow in confidence
project kick off
teams who want to change or reenergise
teams who want to improve communication
teams preparing for change
teams who want to exceed expectations
teams uncertain about transformation
teams facing difficult challenges
How does it work?
The duration, scheduling and format is up to you. The programme can be online or face to face and take place across a day or up to 3 full days. The programmes will typically be developed using the following process.
Exploratory online meeting with you/your team leader to agree needs and aims for you and your team
Individual online coaching session or online survey with each team member to establish what they believe are the key issues and what they want from the team development
A 2 hour online or face to face meeting with you to agree format, scheduling and details of the programme.
What do you get from the ‘Building your Team’ programme?
A detailed and tailor-made ‘Building your Team’ programme
A blueprint for how to work together
Pre-reading and / or short tasks to make sure we make quick progress.
Brief interviews or a survey to provide members with immediate input
Highly interactive sessions delivered by Nigel and Caroline in which all staff
are listened to
feel able to contribute to personal and organisational developments
have the opportunity to learn about and work with their own and others’ strengths.
are clear on the outcomes for them and their team
A short report or presentation outlining: context, aims, pre-coaching comments, options considered, learning, actions agreed, and feedback.
Expert facilitation from 2 senior professionals who have been there, and are experienced in managing and leading teams.
About us
Based on our breadth of experience working in public and private sector in large complex organisations through to small agile start ups, we bespoke workshops, on location or online. Running private coaching practices, we have teamed up to bring together our knowledge and ability to transform teams and culture, empowering each team and individual we work with to feel better about their own purpose and direction in life.
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Dr Nigel Thomas
Nigel uses his extensive experience as a senior leader to support individuals and teams with their challenges and ambitions. He helps people identify what really matters to them, where they want to get to, and how they’ll get there. His coaching and mentoring practice is based on combining his deep understanding of complex workplaces and developing high levels of rapport with his clients.
Before turning his full attention to coaching Nigel has been a University Dean, Head of a Sports Department, a Senior Lecturer and a National Sports Development Officer. He researched and published widely about disability sport and has worked in the university, charity and local authority sectors.
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Caroline Jory
Drawn to the space where wellbeing meets work, Caroline supports people through changes they want to make in life, finding new ways to work beyond burnout and creating habits that lead to more fulfilment in all areas of life. Her practice incorporates advances in neuroscience, mindfulness, methods for navigating change and building confidence.
Prior to becoming a coach, Caroline worked at senior level in marketing for 25 years, leading teams and working with global companies and SMEs in B2B and B2C across international markets, including SaaS and start ups. Clients over the years have included Post Office, John Lewis & Partners, Waitrose, Victorinox, Audley Travel, Iceland Foods, Air Mauritius, Constance Hotels.