Develop mutual understanding and flexibility

Get to know each other and build trust. Understand each other's personality, behavioural and working style preferences. Adapt to each other's preferences and working styles to be a more cohesive and effective team.

Drive collective functional leadership and accountability

Teams work more effectively with shared accountability and distributed functional leadership. Empower the whole team to own the outcomes and lead in their areas of expertise.

Align team values

Clarify what the team values and what team effectiveness looks like for them. Establish practical shared values and norms that guide the team's behaviour and decision-making.

Evolve teamship rules

Develop the teamship through unanimously agreed shared rules that describe how they intend to operate. Establishing and evolving these rules will enable the team to develop and embed cohesivity and effectiveness.

Check-in and adapt

Healthcheck on how people are feeling, what is working, what isn't, and what they need. Use these insights as a team to adapt and evolve the working approach and rules to become even more effective. Note: it is very unlikely that your team will be turned into squirrels, but we can't rule it out.

Facilitate shared learning and personal growth

Embed learning into doing, taking opportunities to develop shared knowledge and understanding and increase the capabilities of the team.

The benefits of team covalence

Productivity

Teams get more done and create better and more consistent results.

Collaboration

Effective and collaborative working within and across teams.

Efficiency

Less waste, more efficient processes, systems and actions.

Effectiveness

More effective use of the organisation's resources and people's time.

Cohesion

People who get on with each other enjoy working together.

Alignment

Better alignment of effort within the teams and between the teams.

Retention

Happy, cohesive and engaged teams stay together.

Attraction

Engaged and productive people attract more star performers.

Progression

Cohesive, effective and productive teams move the organisation forwards.