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S8E5: High-performing teams - making it stick
The hardest part of building a high-performing team isn't creating the team... but how you make the change last. In the final episode of this series, Imogen and Amanda talk about why improvements unravel (it's usually not about will...
S8E4: High-performing teams - turning clarity into performance
Clarity on paper means nothing if it doesn't change how people actually work. Now we've worked through the purpose of the team, let's make it reality. In this episode, Imogen and Amanda get into the mechanics of day-to-day performan...
S8E3: High-performing teams - what does good actually look like?
Most teams aren't short on motivation. What they're missing is clarity. Clarity on purpose, priorities, roles, and how decisions get made. In this episode, Imogen and Amanda look at what alignment actually means in practice (and no, it's not al...
S8E2: High-performing teams - what's really going on beneath the surface?
Before you can fix a team, you have to understand it. Not what you assume is happening - what's actually happening. In this episode, Imogen and Amanda talk about how to diagnose the real causes of underperformance: why anonymous sur...
S8E1: High-performing teams - is yours working as hard as you think?
Most teams don't fail dramatically. They fade quietly. Work feels harder than it should, decisions drag on, everyone's busy but nothing's quite moving. In the first episode of our series on high-performing teams, Imogen and Amanda unpick the ea...