Effective teams reduce stress. New research has highlighted the weaknesses in many team development approaches and driven the creation of a completely new way to build great teams.

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2. Do you spend more than 10%
of your week managing
personnel issues or resolving
differences between people?
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3. !
Do you struggle to get things
done in other parts of the
organisation where you have
no direct reports?
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4. Is your business struggling to
achieve its goals as more work
is piled on?
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5. Yes?
Then you have a team problem.
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6. Research results from more than
600 teams over the last 10
years:
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7. Strong teams are weak in:
• Innovation and entrepreneurship
• Pace of operation
• Meeting management
• Anticipation and preparation
• Collaboration
• Resolving inter-personal
differences
• Aligning rewards and goals
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8. Weak teams are weak in:
• Goal setting, planning or adhering to
plans
• Prioritising action
• Team structure, roles, responsibilities
and rewards
• Entrepreneurism and innovation
• Pace of operation
• Meeting management
• Relationships - trust, collaboration,
resolution of interpersonal differences
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9. Most of these issues are about
the “harder” aspects of team
functioning, not the “softer”
aspects.

10. The balance between internal
focus and external focus
correlates strongly with team
performance.
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11. You need a quick, easy way to
understand what the team is
good and bad at, which looks at
hard as well as soft stuff.
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12. !
You need input from
stakeholders.
And you need a simple way to
prioritise what needs to be
improved.
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13. !
But, team development
approaches:
• Only look at the soft stuff
• Produce unfathomable results
which cannot be actioned
• Are frequently cobbled-
together assessments of
individuals, polished and
priced to excess

14. !
The Leap Team Index
“overcomes all of these
problems”
- Jeremy Marchant,
Emotional Intelligence At
Work.

15. The Leap Team Index:
“…contributed to a 15 fold growth in our
profits…”
!
“…we our hit our client service, income
and cost targets for the year, all of which
required double digit improvement…”
!
“…transformation in team and commercial
performance has been remarkable…”

16. !
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