The High Performing Team

The Self-Aware Team – Stage 1

Unlock the power of self-awareness with Insights Discovery. In this highly interactive session, your team building day will:

• Discover their unique preferences and perceptions and learn how these shape the way they work
• Gain fresh insight into the cognitive diversity within the group – recognising how different strengths and perspectives create stronger results
• Share personal strengths and challenges openly, building trust and appreciation across the team
• Identify blind spots and create practical action plans that boost individual and collective performance.

This first stage lays the foundations for a more connected, collaborative, and high-performing team.

Smarter Habits for Highly Effective Teams

Being busy doesn’t always mean being effective. In fact, constantly rushing can get in the way of real progress. This programme helps your team challenge the myth that “busyness = effectiveness” and instead build habits that deliver meaningful results.

Through an interactive and practical approach, your team will:

• Recognise the difference between activity and impact, using real-world examples of what people often say when they’re “too busy”
• Learn and apply the Urgency vs Importance Model to focus on what really drives success
• Put the model into practice with a lively bingo-style activity to check and deepen understanding
• Reflect on unhelpful habits — taking ownership of the language and behaviours that may be holding your team back
• Explore proven techniques and best practices, share ideas and commit to positive personal and team habits that create lasting effectiveness.

The result?  A team that works smarter, not harder – with clear priorities, healthier habits and a stronger sense of collective achievement.

Living our Purpose & Values 

When teams connect deeply to their purpose and values, they achieve more than just results – they create a culture that inspires, motivates and lasts. This module aligns your people to both the organisation’s vision and the team’s unique contribution, helping them live the values every day.

Through interactive and collaborative activities, your team will:

• Explore Simon Sinek’s Start with Why to understand the deeper purpose behind their work
• Reflect on the organisation’s vision and define the personal legacy they want to create in achieving it
• Bring the company’s values to life with a fun, hands-on exercise that translates values into real team behaviours
• Work in smaller groups to define what those behaviours look and feel like in practice – what colleagues should see, hear, and experience every day
• Link their shared purpose and values to Daniel Pink’s principles of Intrinsic Motivation (Drive) – building a culture where people are inspired by autonomy, mastery and purpose
• Commit to living these behaviours, with clear follow-up actions to embed them into the team’s culture.

The result: a team that doesn’t just talk about values, but lives them – motivated from within, united by purpose and empowered to create a culture that drives both performance and pride.

The natural next step is our Positive Support & Challenge module, which helps teams sustain this culture by holding each other accountable in constructive, motivating ways.

Team Effectiveness 

High-performing teams don’t just happen; they are built through self-awareness, trust and intentional action.  In this advanced module, we use the Insights Team Effectiveness Model to help your team build on their existing knowledge of Insights Discovery and apply it directly to the way they work together.

Your team will:

• Revisit their Insights Discovery preferences as a foundation for evaluating how the team functions
• Learn the principles of the Insights Team Effectiveness Model and explore how it supports stronger collaboration
• Work in pairs and small groups to apply the model, using questionnaires and practical exercises to pinpoint where the team is performing well and where challenges remain
• Identify priority development areas and create a shared plan for improvement
• Document specific, practical actions – with each team member taking personal responsibility for moving these forward.

The outcome: a team that builds on the self-awareness gained through Insights Discovery, applies it to real-world teamwork and takes collective ownership for continuous improvement.

This module is most effective when all team members have already completed Insights Discovery – ideally through our Self-Aware Team programme. Together, the two modules create a powerful journey: moving from individual self-awareness to collective team effectiveness.