Goldcrest Partners can help your team align, collaborate, and perform together to achieve your business goals.
Creating a network of teams
In today’s interconnected business landscape, creating a cohesive network of teams presents both unique challenges and opportunities. Teams are often:
- Geographically dispersed
- Have multiple stakeholders
- May have multiple outputs
- May be multi-generational
- Work in a matrix of other teams
- The whistle doesn’t blow at the end of the day
Achieving Harmony
The best organisations get the most out of their teams when they are connected in an effective network within the business. A network of teams:
• Encourages close strategic alignment ensuring that all teams are pulling in the same direction together.
• Communicates and collectively problem solves, so execution of strategy becomes effective and timely.
• Creates strong relationships, mutual trust and dynamic followership to get the best out of the team members.
• Encourages understanding of one another’s challenges and environments, so our contexts can be understood and taken into account.
• Develops robust processes and workflows which are challenged to be appropriate, proportionate and deliver the strategy.
A high performing network of teams is rare, but impactful, and always worth the effort.
How to build a high performing network of teams
Time together
To be truly well networked teams benefit from spending meaningful time together; getting to know each other, sharing what they actually do and discovering each others goals, challenges and ways of working. It’s surprisingly common for teams that need to collaborate to struggle with understanding each other and how to work together effectively for mutual success. For teams to work well this understanding of each other and interdependencies is an essential foundation.
Open and honest communication
The network of teams needs to know how things are going with one another, they need to know if there is going to be a problem in the flow of work for any reason, and they need to be happy to take collective responsibility to solve problems flexibly and effectively.
Alignment behind a common goal
When team goals are aligned, the collective power of the teams can be immense and harnessed to deliver great outcomes. In a strong team, alignment is clear and constantly reinforced.
Efficiency and adaptability
Smooth functioning is essential to efficient working and, when complemented with adaptability to change, it’s a powerful combination. To be both efficient and adaptable, teams benefit from being well connected, open and resilient. This accelerates our progress and enhances our agility to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving industry.
Network of Teams Case Studies
Network of Teams Insights
