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Shaping Smart Teams

Shaping Smart Teams

Smart teams don’t just happen, they are designed. Comsen helps you design them.

Around the world organisations waste hundreds of thousands of dollars each year implementing linear change management programmes that under deliver and don’t stick.

Are you caught in a cycle of endless change, running programmes that staff resist and don’t provide the right skills or outcomes? Do you find yourself thinking - I’ve given my team good reasons, training, tools, what else can I do?

You’re not alone.

Globally, leaders are looking for how best to respond to the massive rise in complexity and speed of change.

How we can help

Adaptability is the new intelligence
“The most intelligent person is not the one who’s best at doing any specific task, but it’s the one who’s best at picking up new things quickly.”
THOMAS W. MALONE, PROFESSOR MIT SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

In the next 20 years it’s estimated 46-80% of today’s jobs will disappear or be radically altered. In that same timeframe renewable energy will provide 100% of the world’s energy with a near zero price.

3D printing recently became 100x faster and the next development will be 1000x faster. Medical devices outdiagnose 70% of doctors, and facial recognition software now outperforms human recognition.

The speed of advancement is mindboggling and means we need to learn and unlearn at a phenomenal pace just to keep up.

The ability to adapt quickly and smartly will be what sets individuals and teams apart. We are seeing the rise of a new core competency – Adaptability Quotient (AQ) – as part of the HR toolset to address change readiness.

co-cre8

Adaptability means working, thinking and planning differently.

We already know that putting a bunch of smart people in a team does not make a team smart. Smart teams don’t just emerge, they are designed. You need to know how to recruit for, identify and leverage social perceptiveness, diversity and ways of working that elicit empathy and enable conversational turn taking, elements consistently associated with effectiveness.

Fortunately there are tested methodologies that can help you achieve this, it is what we at Comsen are about.

Co-cre8

“You cannot make a plan for 2025 based on 2016 knowledge, you need 2023 knowledge to make that plan” Brad Templeton, Director Foresight Institute.

At Comsen, we use the high impact design methodology Co-cre8 to tap the collective genius of groups and create smart teams that are energised, adaptive and impactful.

Co-cre8 blends several tested business and design methodologies including MG Taylor, Design, Agile and System Thinking and Ethnographic Research with proprietary insights to create an ecosystem of connections across all kinds of knowledge, skills, human potential and infrastructure.

The results?

  • Team design 40x more powerful for performance than leadership coaching
  • Synergies from blending four key performance areas - what (ideas/results), who (people/relationships), how (process and innovation) and when (action/pragmatism)
  • Teams that spend at least 5% of time building and leveraging networks, powerfully associated with productivity and staying power
  • Teams that can identify and amplify human value, the only value that can’t be replaced by machines

How Co-cre8 works

We use a highly disciplined yet open and creative process built on design thinking principles that includes -

  1. Highly structured experiential workshops that propel clients through strategy and solution design to implementation within 3 days.
  2. Collaborative sessions that unpack the complexity of a challenge, expose the range of perspectives and assumptions at play, and de-risk the path to success.
  3. Integrated culture change designed by your team, for your team, with day one momentum
  4. Qualitative assessments that build a picture of your team’s strengths and gaps, or test the fitness of your team/organisation to undergo complex change.
  5. Experiential training in co-design, facilitation, customer empathy and collaborative problem solving.
  6. Team Shaping to boost the natural strengths in your team, increase empathy and trust, de-clutter communication and create momentum.
Adaptability is the new intelligence

Steph Beath

Principal

As a highly experienced facilitator, change specialist and experience designer of 16 years, Steph brings a wealth of war stories, analogies and strange questions to unlock any challenge a team may be facing.

She is equally comfortable working in the board room, at the frontline and out amongst the customers. In fact the researcher in her feeds on the diversity of viewpoints to work out which knots an organisation needs to untie or loosen to move forward.

Steph is described by her clients and peers as "someone you want on your team". Someone who "is able to lift the game of the team. She is able to find each team members true motivation, identify what is broken or needs fixing, will challenge when needed and brings out the collective knowledge and abilities of the team for a far greater result."

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