This track explores the concept of high-performing teams and the challenges they face within organisations. It highlights the complexity of teams, with individuals having multiple roles and varying interpersonal preferences. It delves into research on the factors that contribute to team success, covering areas such as cognitive processes, leadership, and communication and introduces the Optimal Performance theory by Tim Gallwey, emphasizing the importance of removing interferences to unleash a team's potential. The track concludes by encouraging leaders to create space for discussions about team dynamics and to tap into shared purpose and intrinsic motivation to drive high performance.

What Makes High Performing Teams?

Having clear and courageous conversations is crucial for stimulating creativity, energising teams, enabling accountability, and building a collective vision. Not everything can be easy – but it can always be clear and based on values.

Clear And Courageous Conversations

Change management is about enabling organisational change in a way that is compassionate and supports the best possible transition to a new and better future.

What is Change Management?

The first step on any journey of leadership is inwards. And this is what we call self-leadership. How are we leading ourselves in the world? Both in the ways we are acting and the ways we are thinking.

What is Self-Leadership?

Our ability to withstand and operate under pressure is important, however, it’s the ability to grow through the struggle, that is perhaps most potent.

What is Resilience?

Influence is typically defined as “the power to have an effect on people or things”. When we think of influencing in social and organisational contexts though, we are most interested in an effect that encourages or elicits behaviours that align with our goals.

What is Influencing?

As leaders, how well we communicate impacts our work on a daily basis. So, what are the key component parts and how do we get better at managing them?

Getting The Best Out Of Your Communication Style

Companies that prioritise collaboration are five times more likely to have a considerable increase in employment and twice as likely to be profitable and outgrow their competitors.

What is Collaboration?

As leaders, how do we bring people together from different places, with different values, and energise them to trust and be vulnerable with each other so, that they can co-create effectively? And how can we do this at pace?

Social Contracts For Partnering At Speed

Organisations are also vehicles of emergence that can give rise to great innovation and transformation. As leaders in this context, it’s useful to understand how we can observe and influence emergence in our systems.

What is Emergence?

Sophisticated scenario planning is a hallmark of truly enduring organisations.

Performance Frontiers

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