Senior Team Discovery Program
A tailored program for senior teams who want to build great working relationships and co-create their team culture.
Who it’s for
New and established senior teams who want to co-create their culture and make sure their working relationships are as positive and productive as they can be.
High performing teams deliver visible value and are more productive in less time. They trust each other and love working together. Great people want to join them and stay with them. And they do all this while having more fun.
Problems it solves
If your team is newly formed, you can waste a lot of time while everyone tries to understand who’s who in the team and the roles they are more and less likely to play in a collective setting. If you don’t know what your colleagues are drawn to, you won’t know how best to work with them. If there’s no time allowed for a conversation about who we are and how we’re going to make the most of what we have, everyone will have to cross their fingers and guess. That’s tedious and slow.
If your team has been established for a while but isn’t travelling as well as you’d all like, you can spin wheels on internal tensions. Countless hours can be wasted focused inwards, trying to sort through interpersonal frustrations instead of focusing on what’s best for the organisation and those it serves.
Teams that don’t work well together suck up time and energy that could be far better spent.
What it achieves
The faster things change, the harder it is to maintain thriving team relationships and the more attention is needed to make sure these work well. The ‘soft skills’ are the hardest of all to get right. They’re the ones that will future-proof your team and its performance.
The best leaders know they can’t do this alone. Teams who co-create their culture, own and drive it together.
Your team culture is evolving right now whether you’re actively managing it or not. If it’s happening by accident, now’s the time to make it deliberate. The upside potential is enormous. If you get it right, your team will unite with passion to perform and work will be faster, easier and more fun.
How it works
Personality profiling questionnaire
The Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ) is one of the most widely used and respected measures of workplace behavioural styles in the world. It is normed against global senior leaders, allowing participants to see how they compare with their peers around the world. Each participant receives two detailed individual reports including their unique set of preferences and their Belbin team type – the role they are most likely to adopt in a team setting.
Individual debrief and interview
An in-depth interview is used to understand each participant’s unique role in the team, their experience of working within it and what changes, if any, they would like to see in the team dynamic to make them more effective. The OPQ debrief delves into the detail of the two individual reports and identifies the participants’ unique pattern of preferences, including how these may help or hinder in their current role.
One-day workshop
The workshop follows a tried and tested methodology and is tailored to the unique team’s context and objectives. The individual reports from the profiling questionnaire are combined into a summary report showing the team’s collective profile. This is explored in the context of the team’s current priorities and the culture they’re trying to co-create – what’s working well, what needs more focus – and how to move forward together.
What Fiona's clients say…
“Fiona provided us with exceptional support in transforming our team culture to support our new strategic direction and integrated operating rhythm. The outcomes for our team have been outstanding and enduring.”
Magnus Gittins, Director, Australian Graduate School of Management at University of New South Wales (AGSM) Executive Education
“Fiona is one of the rare people you come across in your career who truly inspires. She has an instinctive understanding for where people are at which is matched with an equal amount of genuine caring. She asks the hard questions and challenges you to go deeper and harder to find solutions you never thought possible. She is smart, insightful and engaging and she absolutely delivers absolutely all the time. Spending time in her company is worth every moment.”
Allison Robison, General Manager, Employee Transition, National Australia Bank
“Fiona brings a unique combination of empathy, adaptability and experience into her approach to truly making a difference in designing and leading outcomes in complex environments. One of the best change agents I’ve ever worked with.”
Monica Klyscz, Global Head of Property, BHP
Want to discuss with Fiona?
If you would like to schedule a conversation with Fiona to discuss further, please email Chloe at chloe@fionarobertson.com to arrange a suitable time that works for you.