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Team Collaboration Development

In today’s most progressive organizations, team dynamics are shaped by the complexity of strategic decisions, market demands, organizational structures, personalities and culture.
Embark on a transformative journey and accelerate your team’s approach to development. Elevate personal growth, understand systemic dynamics, and cultivate a team culture that thrives on collaboration and shared success. Start your team’s transformative journey with us today.

the lateral space Approach to Team Development Facilitation entails:
A deep understanding of the challenges of Lateral collaboration:

  • Align personal and team goals strategically. Explore the organizational paradoxes that challenges your team to take lateral leadership.
  • Understand the collaboration risks each individual feels when interdependencies are present.
  • Discuss the behavioural routines you team has unconsciously installed to avoid lateral collaboration.
See our Lateral collaboration page for more inspiration and background information.

How we help

We incorporate our unique approach to Lateral Leadership™ and our powerful Lateral Collaboration™ tools. See more on our lateral collaboration page. Some key principles on how we help your team.

Systemic Dynamics Expertise:

Our programs delve into the systemic dynamics that shape your teams’ interactions. We explore the interconnectedness of roles, communication patterns, and impact of the total ecosystem.

Personal Growth as the Catalyst:

The strength of a team is closely related to the potential development of its individual members. Our facilitated programs will empower individuals to grow their self-awareness and leadership impact.

Taylor made workshops and journeys:

All our team interventions are tailor made to acknowledge the specific challenges and opportunities of every team.

Continuous team journeys:

Team development is an ongoing process. We design longer term team journeys to embrace change, learn from challenges, and evolve collectively over time.
Team dynamics are often the source of interpersonal tension, ineffectiveness or insecurity. However, when seen from a higher perspective they are less individual and should be seen as a source of valuable data that can reveal the challenges but especially the opportunities of a team.

Example Cases

Case 1: Recovering poor performance
Having missed revenue targets substantially after year-on-year growth, a top team struggled to align on their recovery plan. The debate centered around sales vs product development. Through our exercises, each functional leader challenged their own perspectives of the root-causes.
The real emotions of what went wrong got processed which created a space of “we are all in it together”. Strong team alignment allowed them to jointly define and agree on a contingency plan. After 6 months they recovered lost revenue with new accounts.
Case 2: Resetting post transformation
After a major transformation the top team of a business unit was fully restructured with some leaders re-applying and new ones joining. The team developed an “old-vs-new” dynamic and struggled to align on and drive the organizational transformation.
We created a space for each leader to share their aspiration and drive, but also their personal change process. Some difficult emotions about the past were surfaced and acknowledged in meaningful ways. These enabled the team to embrace both older and new energies and to utilize purposefully the differences to build the transformation plan.
Case 3: Culture vs effectiveness
The †op team of a pre-IPO ”scale-up” company struggled to align on how to structure the organization, as their rapid growth introduced organizational complexity. Team was faced with the dilemma, whether to sustain their original start-up culture or to develop processes for organizational efficiency. This created animosity in the team and strong emotions resulting into lack of collaboration and little sense of team.
With a series of exercises the actual principles behind decisions became clear. Team members demystified assumptions, understood each other’s motives. This enabled team cohesion and to naturally work on team synergies.

What our customers have to say.

Director of medical affairs, Daiichi Sankyo

I was privileged enough to take part in a Team Program with Warden and Petros. It was a truly transformative experience in the way I look at team interactions and commitment. It helped bring people in the team together, letting go of superfluous thoughts and prejudice and focusing on moving forward and succeeding as a team. I can only recommend it!

Commercial Director Europe at DSM Engineering Materials B.V.

We are so grateful for our fantastic experience with the lateral space. With their professionalism, competencies and attention to detail, they
helped us to discover the full potential of the DSM Engineering Material Commercial Team by developing a customized approach.
Our Partnership has been valuable in building a much more engaged, connected and stronger crew!
Thank you lateral space Team for a great job!

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