You are invited to join members of Vistage for their next speaker session, led by Bernard Desmidt on “Teaming Better Together”

Teaming Better Together

A culture of teamwork is an organisation’s most competitive advantage, it’s the only thing a competitor can’t copy. This workshop provides insight into the 5 disciplines that enable leadership teams to transition to become high performing, collaborative teams.

Many business teams experience some or many of the following:

1.    There’s a lack of trust and team members avoid speaking their truth.
2.    More is unsaid than said – they stay safe in silence.
3.    More time is spent in unproductive and ineffective meetings which keeps them away from doing what is most important.
4.    Team members operate in silos and focus on what they can control and influence and less on the collective goals.

5.    The team operates more as a group of independent leaders, working in silos than working interdependently as a team.
6.    That the team is an unsafe space to speak one’s truth and challenge each other’s thinking and ideas. It’s easy to stay safe in silence.
7.    There is misalignment across the team in relation to the team’s purpose, way-of-working and collective performance goals.

Workshop structured in three parts:

Part 1: Context: 4 Team Types

–    Distinctions between a group and a team
–    4 team types and how they differ
–    Online assessment – what team type are we?

Part 2: Content: 5 Disciplines of a High Performing Team

–    8 Elements of effective working relationships
–    How to build greater trust-based relationships
–    Why others trust me or not enough?
–    Why we get stuck in difficult conversations?
–    How to make it safer to discuss the undiscussables
–    The moods of floundering and flourishing teams
–    All we are, is a mood – all we say and do is because the mood we’re in.
–    How to manage our moods to better serve us and others
–    How to secure others’ cooperation and commitment to get done what’s most important get done
–    A ‘sloppy request’ will always get a ‘slippery commitment’
–    Our bad, good and great work
–    How to make meetings matter
–    And, finally, The 5 Disciplines of High Performing Teams

Part 3: Commitment – to become a more high-performing team

What Bernard says about himself

I work with organisations to help build their leadership capacity and capability. As a leadership coach, facilitator, trainer and speaker, I work with CEO’s, MD’s and executives to create a high performing, collaborative culture where leaders and teams flourish in the fulfillment of their working relationships and impact from their results.

I have delivered over 20,000 hours of executive and team coaching and facilitated leadership learning experiences across the world. I facilitated one of the most highly rated executive leadership programs at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Sydney and one of the top-rated facilitators on the Academy Global Emerging Leaders Program.

I have written 2 leadership books:

Inside-Out Leadership – How to Master the 4 Principles of Effective Leadership and Become the Leader Others Choose to Follow and, 

Team Better Together – the 5 disciplines of high performing teams.

In my work with Vistage Chairs and their groups, I seek to align what success would look like and invite their members to share what they would find greatest value and benefit I speak to. This ensures I speak to what is of greatest relevance and benefit and have immediate application to their own circumstances.   

Vistage members are high-integrity business leaders from a diverse range of industries who meet monthly to support each other and address the challenges of leading in these increasingly uncertain times.

The speaker session is the first part of a monthly all-day meeting and is attended by between 14 and 16 people. During the afternoon, tVistage members continue with their Executive Session. Our speakers are subject experts focused on stimulating active discussion with the group.

Attendance at Vistage meetings is for business leaders only and by invitation and subject to space availability , for this event we welcome Guests who are CEOs or Business Leaders. Please click here and register your interest.