Team development

We’ll work with you to bring out the best in your team and create a culture of continuous improvement.

A genuinely high performing team brings out the best in all its members. This rarely happens organically, it takes considered effort to create the conditions to thrive.

But change is hard, and when it is done badly it can be damaging – for morale, for productivity, for effectiveness. What is often overlooked, but which we know from our extensive experience helping teams improve, is that change cannot be imposed from the outside.

Our approach to team development

Drawing on decades of academic research and industry best practice, we’ve brought together the 8 characteristics of high performing teams. We meet teams where they are, and empower leaders, staff and communities to work together. We work with you to build collective ownership for effective, lasting and positive change.

At Kaleidoscope we take an appreciative approach to conversations about teams and how they work. Appreciative because we know our clients are doing great work, but there is potential to do even more. It is valuable to recognise what is already going well.

We start with an exploratory conversation to understand what is important to you, so we can meet your needs. Each project is tailored very closely and may draw on disciplines like strategy, research or evaluation.

We then bring your team together to co-produce how they can become a higher performing team, and consider what it is that enables them do more of the best work.

Our services

We will deliver a tailored approach for your team, organisation, collaboration or system to do its best work.

This can include:

• long-term partnership to build team performance
• series of events focused on the high-performing teams characteristics
• diagnostic as to current team performance
• support for away-days to focus attention on team performance and improvement.

Our experience

We have supported organisations across the health and care sector to improve and maintain a culture of continuous improvement. Our experience includes:

• co-designing a large scale, cross functional development programme over 12 months with a newly-formed NHS planning and commissioning directorate
• delivering a short two-day team development workshop with Macmillan North of England partnerships team.