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Every functional area or discipline has its own way of looking at the world. It’s part of the way that we learn and how the expertise is developed. Whether your background is Sales, Accounting, Marketing, Technology, Medicine, Logistics or Civil Engineering, specific frameworks, expectations and structures are used train the mind to think about your area of expertise in a particular way. It also trains us to make decisions using these specific criteria and they create preferences for particular approaches and outlooks.
This is great and useful when working with others in your area of specialism, but it can be a problem when you need to work as part of a larger, mixed, interdisciplinary team. Each discipline has its own preferences. The norms of expectations and behaviour, the types of thinking styles, tools and basis for making decisions all need to change and become aligned to accommodate others involved. If this doesn’t happen, then team performance is significantly impaired. Creating alignment doesn’t just happen - it needs to be actively managed, if an effective outcome is going to be achieved and problems avoided.
Different Disciplines & Cultures?
Even when the same discipline or area of experience and/or expertise is shared, cultural differences between organisations or countries can still significantly impeded team performance. If these differences are not well understood, fully appreciated and managed, then attempts at genuine alignment and agreement falter. Mix together different disciplines and cultures and the potential problem is significantly compounded and exacerbated.
We like exploring differences and making them work for us - and for you. We’ve developed a range of approaches to explore, develop and align potential interdisciplinary and cultural difference so that they work for everyone involved. In addition, we layer into this activity powerful methods and tools for developing effective teams and groups that are focused on creating constructive relationships that are motivated to achieve high levels of performance and success.
We can help your teams in a number of ways:
- Start-Right Workshops: helping new teams and groups accelerate to high performance
- Alignment Workshops and Coaching: helping teams to move up to new levels of performance
- Performance Coaching: to help teams and groups who are encountering difficulty
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