Team Effectiveness
Improve team dynamics, agility, capacity to innovate, and resilience.
It's a team sport
If you're here, chances are that you work in a team.
You're not alone. Teams are instrumental in solving challenges in knowledge-based organizations.
In contrast to individual work, collaboration in organic teams or across the company means mean there are many moving parts to juggle, such as:
✓ Psychological safety
✓ Effective group communication
✓ Team design and composition
✓ Meetings and processes
✓ Knowledge sharing
What's team effectiveness?
When teams are at their peak, they can deliver great results against their goals.
They can sustain them while keeping resilience in the face of challenges and uncertainty.
The main components of team effectiveness, as we see them at The Middle, are the team dynamics, team design, and the ways of working.
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Team dynamics
The tendencies that shape how we interact.
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Team design and principles
How we structure teams (e.g., composition, size, rituals, org-design, etc.) and the shared mental models (the unspoken shared-understanding)
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Ways of working
How the work gets done (meetings, processes, goals, etc.) and the quality of outcomes
Ready to take your team to the next level?
It starts with a non-binding introduction call, where we discuss your goals/challenges and explore how The Middle can help.
Just leave your details and we’ll be in touch.
Improving your team's effectiveness with The Middle
To help you take your team to the next level, The Middle offers 3 levels of support.
Depending on where you are on your journey you can opt for a single option or leverage any combination.
1. Introduce relevant theories
From team design to teamwork, from psychological safety to structural dynamics.
Everything your team needs to be able to take steps in the right direction.
2. Diagnose team's status
The Middle uses scientifically developed diagnostic instruments for team dynamics.
They take just minutes to complete and provide stark, actionable data points.
✓ Fearless Organization Scan (FOS) for measuring psychological safety
✓ Behavioral Maps (bMaps) for analyzing the structural dynamics of your interactions
In addition to these, The Middle engages in other diagnostic activities such as interviews, shadowing, etc.
3. Facilitate and support change
You bring the expertise in your context, we provide the structure.
Together we move towards better teamwork.
Are we a good fit?
Get in touch, and let's have a free introduction call to see if we're a good match.
Real-world team leadership experience
Or Perlman, founder of The Middle, has led high-performing teams for over a decade.
His experience spans from leading frontline workers to people managers in both organic and cross-functional units.
Leading teams to exceed expectations in product-led start-ups and scale-ups
Driving excellence in many fields, such as marketing, growth, product, business development, and account management.
Led and mentored people from over 20 nationalities and worked with companies from various industries, such as FinTech, HealthTech, AdTech, PropTech, and Gaming.
FAQs
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The Middles utilizes scientifically-backed diagnostics instruments in FOS (Fearless Organization Scan) and bMaps (Behavioral Maps).
These instruments are in a survey form and taken online in just a few minutes.
They provide a deep level of analysis. Both teams and individuals can benefit from the insights these tools generate.
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I'd like to diagnose my team's status-quo - where can I get the survey?
The diagnostics instruments that we use at The Middle deliver robust analytics, and are accessible through bespoke platforms.
When we begin to work together, each team member will receive a dedicated link through which they'd access their individual survey.
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Structural dynamics is a theory that takes a systemic lens to effective conversations.
David Kantor, The originator of the theory, stipulated that the structure in which we communicate in groups is often more important than the content of our conversations.
Structural dynamics examines visible elements of communications together with the underlying beliefs of group members.
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In short, ways of working refer to the practices in our workplace when it comes to getting the job done.
It's about who does the work, how we organize and distribute it, how we make decisions, how we learn, and what processes we have in place.
Interested?
We’re excited to go on this journey with you
Looking for something else?
Check out our other programs for both individuals and teams.
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Redesigning Leadership
A proprietary course tailored for the ever-growing complexity of our work, today and beyond.
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Hacking Team Management
We work with a team and its leader to improve effectiveness and satisfaction through iterative experiments.
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Leadership Mentoring
We support you in navigating through the tensions that come with the responsibility of team leadership.