Creating high-performing teams

Leadership development programs for executive, project and product teams
How we can help you
  • Synchronizing the virtual team
    You feel that there is a loss of communication between people who work remotely. It's hard to communicate, it's not clear who is doing what, and meetings don't help and take a lot of time and effort.
  • Starting a new team / Transforming a team
    If you need to get initial results quickly with a new team. When you need to work out the general rules of the job and preserve best practices.
  • Increasing team efficiency
    If your team is tired, overloaded, conflicts among themselves and with other departments, makes ineffective decisions, does not take responsibility.
Workshops and seminars
  • Motivating remote teams
    What motivates employees? How does motivating a team differ from motivating an individual employee? How to motivate a distributed team?
  • Remote team meetings
    How to conduct meetings of remote teams:
    - Types of meetings
    - How often to hold meetings
    - Rules and guidelines for effective remote meetings
  • Psychological safety and well-being of a virtual team
    How to make people in a virtual or hybrid team feel comfortable and able to invest their ideas, energy, and involvement without fear of judgment or fear of making a mistake.
Why?

90% of investors believe that the quality of the management team is the only significant non-financial factor to consider when going public. And when a strong team works on achieving the overall vision, the probability of achieving outstanding financial results almost doubles.

Sourse:
Scott Keller and Mary Meaney, Leading Organization: Ten Timeless Truths, New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 2017
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How?

  • observe team interaction and give developmental feedback
  • help the team agree on roles and principles of work within the team
  • help the team clarify expectations of customers and agree with them on the value that the team can bring when working together
  • train the team to learn and develop as they work together
  • accompanying business tasks on-the-job and focused on creating value for the future
What?

  • The team knows how to negotiate roles and ways of interacting internally to create value for the customer
  • Team meetings become more productive and require less time
  • The team has the competencies to respond to customer needs in a changing environment
  • The team has a shared vision and measure of success
Sample program structure
I want to thank Daria Rudnik and Natalia Gulchevskaya for the professional support they have provided during the team coaching of my team. We've been working with a team of 5 people for a period of 6 months (fall 2020 – spring 2021). The coaches helped me as a team leader to identify priorities that helped me to focus on more systemic and strategic tasks. I have restructured the work of my department so that the team members became more independent in decision making, communication with the executive team, and starting up new initiatives. For my team, the team coaching helped to understand their roles more clearly, boosted cross-communication and collaborations, and mutual personal and professional support.

The other very important benefit of this team coaching program is that it was not a short-term result but we now have principles that we use in our day-to-day work. And I thank the coaches for that.

Thank you

Natalia Kosmodemianskaya
Head of Sponsored Programs Office at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Experience & Expertise
  • Start-ups
    Experience in launching and supporting startups
  • Spiral Dynamics
    Auditing the team and the organization from a spiral dynamics perspective
  • Self-Management
    Helping to build self-organizing teams
  • Group dynamics
    In the programs I use the tools and principles of working with groups according to The Tavistock Institute methodology
  • Remote/hybrid teams
    I have been building remote teams since 2010 in 11 countries.
TEAM COACHING WITH THREE SKOLTECH TEAMS FOR 6-9 MONTHS 2020/2021

The Skoltech team would like to thank Daria Rudnik, Olga Lavrenko, Natalia Gulchevskaya, Natalia Smurova for the successful project on coaching teams of the Human Resources, the Department of Research Contracts Department, and the Sponsorship Programs Department.
The project provided high-level professional support to the teams to rally around the goals and values of the Institute, as well as to solve organizational and individual tasks of the participants.


Elena Kosacheva
Head of HR

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