High Peforming Teams
Unicorn will transform the approaches of your Teams so they can reach the performance levels you require. We will support your teams to make any necessary cultural shift, as well as developing the skills and techniques to make this shift successful.
Features of High Performing Teams:
Clear Decision Making
Pace & Energy
Ongoing Improvement
Collaboration
Integrated approach
We will facilitate an exploration of a teams’ inner and outer worlds, looking at it from both an individual and group perspective.
Outer world
This is the context and environment within which the team is operating. We use Unicorn’s DISCOVER™ model to help team members understand this, and the best ways to engage with it to maximise performance. We also use this analysis to support teams to identify where they need to influence and initiate change in their broader environment.
Inner World
When individuals feel Powerful, they are better able to embrace challenges, find solutions, hear others perspectives, explore new approaches, be creative, engage colleagues and generally have more energy to achieve business goals. Unicorn explores your inner world with you, adjusting beliefs and patterns that can decrease personal power, so you can thrive and flourish.
Thinking something is possible has a significant impact on whether it is then achieved. Unicorn takes this concept of Attitude to a deeper level and helps you discover how to effectively utilise yours and understand how this then inspires Constructive Behaviours in both yourself and others.
Knowledge, skill, experience, aptitude for tasks
Unicorn works with you to expand your behavioural range, giving you a greater spectrum of approaches to choose from in any situation. There are a host of approaches you can use, the more you have available to you the greater the chance of a beneficial outcome.
To discuss how we can help you create High Performing Teams, please get in touch.
High Performing Team activities can involve:
Performance Culture • Performance • Culture Change • Culture Analysis • Leadership & Management Development • Team Coaching • Workshops • Development Centres • 360° • Training • Engagement and Motivation • Wellbeing
Team Coaching
Unicorn Team Coaches work with Management Teams, Project Teams, Business Unit Teams, and many others. We can be helpful for any team that is looking to progress something. We also Coach Individuals.
Understanding the Team
The Unicorn Team Coach explores with the team who you are as individuals and who you are as a team. This involves looking at how your different styles engage and reach consensus, and how your team interfaces with the rest of the business, customers, partners and the supply chain.
We explore with you:
Team Purpose
Team Energy
Team Deliverables
Team Interfaces
Team Roles
Team Culture
Team Organisation
Team Relationships
Team Systems
The Unicorn Coach develops a picture of the current situation and works with your Team to create an aspirational vision that you are all connected and committed to.
Team Navigation
When you have a shared understanding of this depth, we usually find that aligned and integrated activities flow quite naturally. The Unicorn Coach works with you to identify what will enable you to achieve your aspirations. Sessions are then scheduled at regular intervals to:
Team Success
Something that will be really important to your Unicorn Coach is helping you notice what has gone well. Being fully connected to your successes will help you replicate these positive outcomes and transfer components to areas where advancement seems slow. Recognising successes and using them as building blocks for further growth will really energise your business achievements.
To find out more about how Team Coaching can increase the performance of your Team,
get in touch for an informal discussion.
Team Coaching can be used as part of:
Leadership & Management Development • High Performing Teams • Workshops • Team Building • Engagement & Motivation • Wellbeing • Culture Change • Performance Culture • Collaborative Working
Team Building
Unicorn offer a wide selection of Team Building events. Whatever your group size our expert team will put together a bespoke package to meet your needs in a location close to you. Our range of activities and events are designed to inspire, connect, engage and motivate teams for enhanced workplace performance.
Connectivity
You may be looking to accelerate the integration of a new team, or improve the connectivity of an established team. From themed activities to workshops, Unicorn utilises an array of techniques and approaches to ensure that you achieve your desired outcomes.
Profiling
We often use Team Profiling as part of these events to build understanding of the differences in preferred working style across the team. Unicorn uses a number of these and our Business Psychologists will carefully select the one which best suits your focus.
Events can be Workshop based, Activity based or a combination of the two.
Workshop Based
Unicorn has extensive experience of facilitating clients through complex live issues in workshop situations. We support you to explore your current position, identify areas for change and create plans to realise the transition. A multitude of techniques and approaches are utilised to optimise creativity and possibilities.
Acitivity Based
We work in partnership with activity providers to offer unique and memorable experiences to support the engagement process. Unicorn's experienced facilitators work with your Team to review key team interactions and approaches. This usually involves reflection and feedback on how your Team have approached various activities and paralleling this to everyday occurrences in the workplace.
Team Alignment
Unicorn works with teams to unearth the visions and beliefs that lie behind the surface ideas, approaches and behaviours. We create psychologically safe environments for all of you to express your thoughts and beliefs through systematic processes. This allows you all an equal voice with constructive focus. We then work with your Team to formulate an aligned vision and approach, which you have all helped to create and so have genuine commitment to.
Areas typically explored include:
Team Purpose
Performance
Interfaces
Structure
Integration
Planning
Engagement
Processes
Communication
Culture
Goals
Outputs
Successes
Contact Unicorn to find out how we can help increase the engagement and motivation of your team. We are very happy to chat through your requirements and potential approaches.
Team Building can be used as part of:
Merging Cultures • Collaborative Working • Culture Creation • Leadership & Management Development • Team Coaching • Workshops • Engagement & Motivation • High Performing Teams • Performance Culture • Wellbeing
Workshops
You may want a workshop on:
Collaborative Working
Enhancing Performance
Energising the Culture
Engagement
One Team
Meeting Customer Needs
System Efficiency
Strategic Approach
Team Connection
Quality Improvements
Linking Department Goals to Vision
Organisational Vision
Planning
While these are some common themes, the scope for workshop topics is limitless.
Unicorn has extensive experience in assisting clients to navigate all sorts of organisational challenges and transitions. We provide a safe environment for your teams to speak openly and frankly about what needs to change. We then support you to find real solutions to these challenges - this can be through pure facilitation, or involve a level of input and ideas from us.
Workshops can be run on your premises or used as an opportunity for an away day, removing many of the daily distractions. They can occur as standalone events, be part of a larger programme or a series of interventions - whatever best suits your purpose. Unicorn run large cross organisational events, small team workshops and everything in between!
Unicorn can help you take a fresh and creative approach to live issues, integrating our expertise with your business knowledge to create greater organisational successes.
Contact us for a free informal discussion about your current priorities, and how we can help you progress them.
You may want to use workshops as part of:
Culture Change • Leadership & Management Development • Team Coaching • Merging Cultures • Team Building
Leadership & Management Development
Unicorn works with Leadership and Management teams at all levels of your organisation. We understand the importance of cohesion and alignment of these teams throughout your business.
Create energy for change
When your Leadership Teams undertake development programmes together you create a real energy for change across your business.
We will engage with your Leadership Teams to design bespoke programmes which interweave:
- Input of new techniques and approaches
- Group analysis of Business Challenges
- Decision making and actions for progress
- Organisational activities to shift your culture
- Integrated Approaches, connecting all parts of your business
To find out how we could transform the Leadership of your business contact Unicorn for an informal discussion.
Leadership & Management activities can involve:
Team Coaching • Training • Coaching • High Performing Teams • Culture Change • Merging Cultures • Collaborative Working • Workshops • Engagement and Motivation • Performance • Wellbeing
Training
Unicorn likes to work closely with you to design programmes that meet your specific business needs. We create environments for you to explore new approaches and experiment with
different techniques, shaping our tools and ideas to make a difference in your workplace.
Significant Cultural Shift
We find the most impactful interventions happen when colleagues go through this type of discovery experience together, encouraging and supporting each other to take the experimentation out into their ‘real world’. A real energy for change usually evolves from these events, particularly when they are interwoven with real organisational projects with senior sponsorship.
Programmes are designed to meet your unique requirements, and may include:
Appreciative Enquiry
Business Development
Coaching For Performance
Coaching Managers to Manage
Collaborative Engagement
Creating a Performance Culture
Creative Solutions
Energising Teams
Engagement Through Discovery
Engaging Communication
Influencing Strategies and Skills
Leadership (all areas)
Communicating with Impact
Power and Influence
Presentations with Impact
Successful Conversations
Successful Change
Wellbeing
...and Anything Else you Require!
Contact Unicorn to find out more about the courses you are interested in.
Training can be part of:
Leadership & Management Development • High Performing Teams • Engagement and Motivation • Performance Culture • Wellbeing • Collaborative Working • Culture Change
Collaboration
Collaborative Performance
Unicorn has extensive experience in collaborative arrangements. We work to understand the performance requirements of all the parties involved and engage with you to shape approaches and integrated goals which enable success for all.
Working Together
Unicorn can help you get all the organisations in the collaboration working in the same direction. We understand the challenges that can arise from competing goals and agendas and will work with you to create shared goals and a unified approach to delivery which meets everyone's needs.
Collaborative Working
Unicorn will work with you to initiate the right approaches early in your collaborative relationships so you can maximise your opportunities and realise the potential the collaboration offers. When projects and new ventures go live, and the period leading up to this, there is so much to get organised and set-up that the integration and alignment aspects can easily be overlooked, limiting performance and profitability. Unicorn will ensure Collaborative Working stays on the agenda, sharing our knowledge and skill to deliver an impressive collaboration.
Creating Collaborative Environments
Unicorn has extensive experience in this area. We can support you to create environments which foster, and actively encourage collaborative working. We will work with your Leaders to deepen their knowledge and understanding of collaborative essentials and strengthen their ability to make it happen.
Unicorn works at all levels:
- Organisation / Project — aligning goals and agreeing approach
- Team — defining purpose and deliverables, identifying interfaces and initiating integration
- Individual — ensuring engagement and alignment
Benefits
When everyone is engaged in aligned constructive effort, supporting each other and facilitating collaborative colleagues’ success – you will all achieve much greater results.
If you invest in this early we can encourage the attitudes and beliefs that will bring collaborative success. You will find Unicorn’s approach invaluable in terms of accelerating the integration and alignment process so you can focus on delivering outstanding results.
To discuss how we can help you maximise the benefit from your collaboration, contact Unicorn for a free initial consultation.
New Collaborations
Culture Creation
One of the wonderful things about new collaborations is you get to create a
new culture. There is a great deal of energy and activity as your organisational groups come together to begin the new venture, or project, and Unicorn can ensure this momentum is harnessed in the right direction.
New Relationships
Everyone will be forming new relationships and shaping how they are going to work together. If you do nothing, your culture will evolve on its own. You will have a culture, it just may not be the one you wanted.
Unicorn understands what will influence and create your culture. We know what you need to do, and when, to get the culture you require.
How it works
Unicorn will work with your Leaders and key people to define the culture that will best suit your business environment and context. We will explore with you different approaches that will engage your people and create your culture, designing a clear way forward that will work for you.
This could include:
Culture Workshops
Engagement Events
Management Commitment Activities
Collaborative Leadership Enhancement
Coaching
Team Cultures
Interface Connection Events
Culture Agents
...and many more
Benefits
Unicorn has an enormous amount of experience in this area, so we can make sure you invest in the right activities at the right time. This will ensure we engage the energy of the change in the direction that gets the results and success you require.
Collaborative Working activities can involve:
Changing Culture • One Team Culture • Performance Culture • High Performing Teams •
Leadership & Management Development • Team Coaching • Workshops • Team Building • Training • Coaching • Wellbeing