Creating a Constructive Culture (2022)

Do your team come to you with problems, not solutions?

There is a baseline that underpins all sustained ‘high performance’ and that baseline is a culture that is growth and achievement oriented – constructive. 

Yet many teams and individuals are self-oriented, problem-focussed and task-oriented which can lead to bickering, in-fighting and competition between them. Or sometimes the environment is nice enough but feels flat, dull or lacking in energy. Many of these problems are symptomatic of dysfunction in teams that is hugely damaging to performance and engagement

In this session we explore what is going on in these teams and how to start to create shifts so the environment can become increasingly constructive. We’ll examine what is at the heart of how your team works together and with you.

The content explores best-practice, and proven techniques for:

•    understanding whether individuals and teams are constructive and powerful or destructive and powerless including how to identify and understand these behaviours when you experience them.

•    how to manage yourself in the face of individuals and teams who are oriented toward blame, justification, competition or just doing nothing! 

•    proven, simple techniques for shifting the culture toward being constructive, energised and powerful both at a team and individual level.

Beyond the basics, the content looks at creating and cultivating behaviours that are highly constructive, and can be evolved in the future as needed.

You will learn:

•    simple, practical ways to establish a common ground with others on the key standards across important matters like dependability, responsibility, and collaboration 

•    how to surface issues that are holding a team in a negative or destructive space and how to shift the dynamic and focus forward

•    how to build and manage the emotional safety of your Leadership

This session will be interactive. It includes case studies and further reading references

Learning Outcomes:

•    Learn what a constructive culture is and why it is foundational for high performance, engagement and retention

•    Learn how to identify behaviours that are less than constructive (passive/destructive) and how to address them constructively

•    Develop the skills to help others be more constructive at an individual and team level

•    Learn how to sustain a constructive focus and response for yourself so you bring the best of yourself to the workplace and to your collaboration with, and Leadership of others

Suited to:

Financial and legal professionals who find themselves managing staff or collaborating with stakeholders. For experienced professionals it will update existing skills sets with some of the latest thinking and research that will strengthen workplace relationships and performance outcomes, and it provides and excellent introduction for those who are looking to create a constructive culture for the first time. 

This On Demand includes: 

• a recording of the webinar Event which can be viewed multiple times
• a PDF of the presenter’s PowerPoint
• a verbatim Transcript
• any supporting documentation
• a CPD Certificate after successful completion of the Knowledge Quiz