strategise / realigning for strategic impact
TLDR
For leadership teams needing to refocus and realign. Helps you see what drives performance, make small changes that unlock impact and work better together with the resources you have.
Public sector organisations are under relentless pressure to reduce costs, but repeated cuts are taking a toll. Services are stretched, teams are tired and uncertain, and the cracks are starting to show. This programme offers a practical, team-based intervention that helps organisations improve performance without compromising quality.
We work with leadership teams to realign around what matters most. Using the GC Index and a structured team development process, we help teams understand how they work, where their strengths lie, and how to make small but powerful changes to roles, focus or dynamics. The result is a more effective, confident and connected team, one that delivers better outcomes with the resources it already has.
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To enable your team to step back and refocus on what matters most
To use the GC Index to understand how your team works: its strengths, gaps and dynamics
To bring awareness to how roles, focus and team composition affect performance
To identify practical changes that will help your team deliver better outcomes with the resources it already has
To build shared ownership, confidence and momentum for working differently
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A more connected, confident and effective team
Greater clarity on how the team works and how it could work better
Practical changes to roles, focus or dynamics that unlock performance
A shared sense of purpose and belief in the team’s ability to lead or manage change
Reduced pressure to make further cuts by improving how the team delivers
A clear, realistic plan for working better together, starting now
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Step 1 – GC Index Team View
We begin by exploring each team member’s GC Index profile to understand their natural proclivities: how they are inclined to contribute to a team. We then bring these profiles together using the Team Impact View, a visual map that shows how the team operates as a whole. This makes it easy to see where the team’s energy is concentrated, where strengths may be underused and where gaps or imbalances could be limiting performance.This step gives the team a shared language and a fresh perspective on how they work together. It often reveals dynamics that were previously invisible, helping the team understand not just individual roles, but how to shift focus, responsibilities or interactions to improve how they deliver.
Step 2 – Full-Day Workshop
A practical, experiential day focused on building awareness, alignment and action. The team explores how it currently works, identifies what needs to change and agrees on practical steps to improve how it delivers.Step 3 – Monthly Virtual Drop-Ins
Facilitated 1-hour sessions to reflect, share challenges and reinforce new ways of working. These sessions help embed the changes agreed during the workshop and deliver real and lasting behaviour change.Step 4 – Half-Day Follow-Up Session
Three months later, the team comes back together to celebrate progress, revisit insights and refresh commitments. This session helps embed the learning and sustain momentum.
This programme can have a leaner structure and include as little as a single workshop, depending on the need and circumstances. -
09:30 – Welcome and Objectives
Introductions, GC Index overview, setting the tone for the day09:45 – How We Work Now
Reflecting on current team dynamics, challenges and ways of working10:30 – GC Index Team View
Exploring your team’s natural strengths, gaps and collective energy11:15 – Break
11:30 – What Needs to Change
Identifying where roles, focus or dynamics could shift to improve performance12:30 – Lunch
13:15 – Making It Real
Working through real challenges and opportunities using your team insights14:00 – Planning for Impact
Agreeing practical changes and shared commitments14:45 – Break
15:00 – How We’ll Keep This Alive
Setting up habits, rhythms and accountability for lasting change15:45 – Commitments
Agreeing what the team will do differently from tomorrow16:30 – Close
