Team Development
with The Glass House Leadership Lab
Advance your team beyond ‘coping with’ and ‘dealing with’ to sophisticated problem-solving, cohesion and innovation
Our Team Development Programme
Programme Overview
What will you learn?
Through applying a deeper understanding of human development values and workforce dynamics you can better align your team members towards common goals, advance your working culture and effectively implement your wider strategy.
Key topics:
Human Development principles across behaviours, values, ego and emotions
Understanding the relationship between values, motivation, engagement and performance
Perspective taking
Recognising limitations, opportunities, talent, passion, strengths and challenges
Creating alignment across a leadership team
Growing and retaining a high performance team
Vulnerability as part of leadership
Maturing your working culture
Creating an effective strategy
How do you learn it?
Typically 1 session per half term across an academic year
Face to face sessions in a combination of group workshops and individual coaching (coaching takes place on a separate date)
Baseline diagnostics and impact data
Advance Your Team’s Performance
Is miscommunication causing friction or frustration within your team?
Are there conflicting priorities or a lack of shared vision across your team?
Is poor cohesion or siloed working styles limiting innovation and preventing your team from reaching its full potential?
Is your team’s decision-making process being slowed down by a lack of alignment on key goals, priorities and strategy?
Are team members feeling undervalued due to lack of understanding of one another and value clashes?
Would your team benefit from understanding each other’s perspectives more deeply, stronger alignment and enhanced collaboration?
Development with The Glass House Leadership Lab is the key to unlocking your team’s full potential.
Our Specific Services
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Team Contracting
Creating a contract for team working fostering alignment between individual values, the strategic objectives of the team and nurturing a maturing team culture.
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Workforce Development
Strategic team planning surrounding talent management, staff retention and recruitment and making best use of staff strengths, interests whilst recognising the gaps.
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Diagnostics
Use of state of the art diagnostics to explore team dynamics on a deeper level.
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Team Transition
Team development focused on change management within an organisation, whether it be new leadership or staff turnover, a change in culture or strategic direction. This process focuses on team alignment and culture.
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Board Facilitation
Preparation and support for Leadership Teams and Executives for guiding the Board or Governors through productive, strategic discussions and decision-making processes. It aims to improve governance, align leadership with the organisation's mission, and address key challenges or opportunities moving forward.
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Team Facilitation
More specific focus on the day-to-day operations, team working and project execution within the organisation. Our facilitation aims to advance collaboration, communication, solution-finding and effectiveness within the team to achieve tangible outcomes.
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Culture Mapping
Culture mapping with The Glass House Leadership Lab is a process that helps you to visualise, understand and analyse the cultural dynamics within your team or organisation more widely. It involves identifying shared values, behaviours, beliefs, and practises and and mapping how these elements influence workplace interactions, decision-making, and overall performance to uncover strengths, weaknesses and misalignments which can then be addressed to mature the culture further.
What do you gain?
For yourself:
A deeper understanding of yourself as a leader, your values and nuances
Advanced leadership knowledge, understanding and skills both generally and within the specific context of your team dynamics
Improved working patterns and culture through improved team work and dynamics reducing individual pressure
For your team:
Stronger collaboration and connection across the team through a deeper understanding of each person’s values, motivations, strengths and areas of interest
Clearer alignment on team and organisation goals and objectives
Improved communication whereby the team can more effectively problem solve, explore solutions and challenge one another
Improved team working culture
Better progress towards goals through task assignment, project management and communication
Higher team performance
For your students:
A more consistent approach from staff
Improved learning experience and outcomes through an aligned teaching team and senior staff
Exposure to best practice team working through staff modelling
For your organisation:
Increased staff retention through a supportive, collaborative team environment and overall improved team culture which reduces staff burnout and helps retain talent
Higher team performance and reputation through improved working culture and student outcomes
Enhanced employee engagement with individuals feeling valued and supported
Cultivation of a pool of effective leaders as employees are given opportunity for and encouraged to take on more responsibility
Improved problem solving through a culture of open dialogue, collaboration and psychological safety
Increased creativity and innovation which encourages risk-taking and learning from mistakes which drives the forward-thinking of the organisation
A more adaptable and agile workforce aligned with the organisation mission, vision and values