Collaboration and cross-functional working

Collaboration for a high-performing culture

Creating a high-performance culture through developing the capability to establish and maintain strong, collaborative relationships.

Effective collaboration and cross-functional working are essential for encouraging teamwork, innovation and achieving shared business goals. By breaking down silos and leveraging diverse skills and perspectives, teams can solve complex problems, enhance communication and create more impactful outcomes.

For an organisation, collaboration sits at the heart of creating a high performing culture. Strengthening collaboration amongst teams can improve efficiencies of time and resource especially where different functions are working on projects with similar (or competing) goals and objectives.

Tailored design for our clients

We tailor each design, often we find the following topics most helpful for our clients:

  • Understanding who your stakeholders are and the current quality of working relationships
  • Using questions to build rapport and break down silos
  • Developing working relationships by understanding different perspectives and styles
  • Using feedback to build trust and encourage open communication
  • Applying a model to prepare for a crucial conversation

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What our clients say about us

Dinusha De Silva-Parker, Human Resources Director, Hansen Technologies

“When Graeme outlined the GBQ questionnaire I was an eager participant as I lead a highly diverse, experienced professional team of HR business partners spread across Europe. …I was really interested in gathering feedback through a third party so that I could learn and examine how I could adjust to enable them even more in their roles – specifically I wanted to hear their group voice on what I should keep doing, where I should adjust my approach or simply not do anymore!

There were some ‘ah ha’ moments, particularly when seeing how I had assessed myself on the scale. It was a really impactful session, so much so that we will recommend that this be used in some of our leadership teams in the future.”