In this edition of The Co., we're offering some insight on improving team connection and performance, a workshop reminder and some YouTube resources to deepen your learning

The biggest challenge (opportunity) on teams today

Over the past few years we've worked with teams across a wide range of sectors and organizational sizes.

From municipal governments to favourite ice cream shops, enterprise clients to small-but-mighty NGO's.

And the universal challenge that every team has faced?

Getting aligned on their vision, values and 'ways of working'.

Often, that includes the vision and values themselves (revisiting something that might have been created a long time ago, by another team, or had never been properly defined), but more often it's going a layer or two deeper into the behaviours and 'ways of working' that reflect the vision and values.

For example, most teams agree that 'collaboration' is important.

Too often, unfortunately, they haven't spent the time defining what collaboration looks like in practice (the actual behaviours), when to do it (and not do it) and how they'll track the impact of their collaboration efforts.

The most common challenges (opportunities for improvement) that we see on teams just happen to fall squarely into our Transformational Impact Model (not surprising, given that the model has emerged alongside our work with those very teams).

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Even a little bit of misalignment, especially on leadership teams, shows up in the organization as;

• Competition for resources between departments
• 'Politicking' or back-channeling between decision makers
• A lack of meaningful feedback from stakeholders
• Inconsistent or unclear onboarding and performance management
• A sense of 'stuckness' around prioritizing and decision making (leading to wasted time and energy)
• High levels of stress and burnout
• A lack of psychological safety and healthy (productive) conflict

We often say that "all roads lead to power and leadership" (which is why those two factors are in the centre of our model), but "all workplace challenges are rooted in a lack of team alignment" is a close second.

Interested in learning more about our team foundations and alignment work?

​Book a coffee (virtual or in-person) to explore options for building deeper connection and gaining a shared understanding of your team's vision, values and strategy.

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Workshop: Communication skills for high-performing teams

When: Tuesday, April 4th | 10:00am-1:00pm MST

Investment: $249 per participant

Where: Zoom

There are a handful of spots remaining, and you can register here.

Interested in a workshop for your team? Hit reply and we can explore your learning and development needs.

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We're on YouTube!

We've got you covered if you're looking for anything from short insights to longer length videos of our conversations with industry thought leaders or deeper dives on a topic.

These three playlists are a great place to start;

​Meaningful minutes - short clips from our podcast or workshops (less than 5 minutes each, most 1-2 minutes)

​The Leaderful Podcast - full length episodes of the show, in case you're the watch and listen type

​Power in the workplace - a collection of power-related topics

Thanks for being here with us, and have a wonderful week!

Team TACO

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