Growing A High Performing Team

A reflective, development-centred approach to improving trust, communication and collective effectiveness.

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Service Overview

Innovative performance requires reflection, challenge and ongoing development.

Our high-performing team development supports established education teams who are working well and want to expand their impact without sacrificing wellbeing or culture.

When To Use This Service

You might consider our working with us to grow your high-performing team service when:

  • A team is functioning well and wants to stretch further

  • Performance is strong but pressure or pace feels unsustainable

  • You want to avoid burnout, complacency or drift

  • The team seeks to adapt to new challenges or increased complexity

  • You want to sustain impact whilst nurturing culture and wellbeing

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What this looks like in practice:

This work creates space for teams to reflect on their journey to this point and integrate their diverse expertise into design thinking.

Sessions focus on identifying what is working well, opportunities for tweaking and refinement as well as expansion (in the direction the team wants to stretch). The emphasis is on challenge, shared ownership and becoming a sector leader .

This transformation work energises and supports teams to grow with intention; healthily sustaining high performance with a conscious and anticipatory approach to change.

Common themes:

Teams typically seek to:

  • Stretch and refine their effectiveness

  • Avoid burnout and expand capacity

  • Strengthen collective accountability

  • Improve adaptability and problem-solving

  • Maintain performance through change

  • Succession planning

This service helps high-performing teams continue to evolve, maintaining excellence through reflection, challenge and intentional development.

    • Opportunity to stretch and refine their leadership practice

    • Greater confidence in judgement and decision-making

    • Renewed motivation, focus and energy

    • Support to lead sustainably at pace

    This helps leaders remain effective without burning out.

    • Sustained high performance and accountability

    • Stronger leadership capacity across the team

    • Greater adaptability and resilience

    • Continued alignment and shared ownership

    This enables teams to perform consistently well over time.

    • Consistent, high-quality leadership and delivery

    • Greater organisational resilience and adaptability

    • Strong leadership pipelines and talent retention

    • Confidence from governors, trustees and external partners

    High-performing teams create stability, trust and long-term impact.

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