Team-Building

Organisation: Hope for The Community

The project: Focusing on building an effective, empathetic and collaborative team, I worked with the innovative, award-winning team at Hope for The Community, a social enterprise supporting journeys of hope across Coventry and beyond. Through a series of self-reflection and group activities over a period of time, we built a shared understanding of the respective strengths of each team member, creating space for honest conversations and building trust across the team.  

Impact:

• The team were able to open up about challenges, frustrations and gaps across the team which were keeping them in reactive mode in a safe, held, space.
• They were able to communicate honestly about how roles and responsibilities could be shaped to ensure the team worked together proactively
• They gained deeper insight into the pressures that each team member was carrying and identified ways to support one another

“I’ve learnt to create gaps in our schedule where we can just breathe… the workshop has shown me how to be more assertive whilst offering clarity to colleagues… I have a better understanding of what I can do to help each team member” – Gabriela Matouskova, CEO