Team Better Together Program

Helping executive teams align faster, decide better, and execute as one.

Program Overview

Most executive teams do not fail because they lack talent. They fail because leaders operate as a group of functional executives rather than as one aligned executive team.

Most organisational dysfunction is first a leadership team problem.

The Team Better Together Program helps CEOs transform fragmented leadership groups into integrated leadership teams that lead, decide, and execute together. Grounded in a decade of coaching executive teams in action, the program strengthens alignment, collective accountability, strategic conversations, and coordinated execution across the organisation.

The result is a leadership team that operates beyond the sum of its parts and creates teamwork as a true competitive advantage.

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— Patrick Lencioni

“It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and rare.”

Problems The Program Addresses

The reasons your team may flounder are because:

  • Leaders protect their functions instead of leading the organisation.

  • Meetings consume time and produce little strategic value.

  • Difficult conversations are avoided and tensions remain unresolved.

  • Decisions lack alignment, ownership, and follow-through.

  • Team members hesitate to challenge each other’s thinking.

  • Accountability is fragmented across the leadership team.

  • Teams react tactically instead of leading strategically.

  • Trust erodes as unresolved issues linger beneath the surface.

  • Leaders work alongside each other, not together as one team.

  • The organisation underperforms because the leadership team is misaligned.

Results the Program Delivers

Your team will increase their organisational impact by:

  • Aligning around shared collective organisational priorities.

  • Making faster, better, and more committed decisions.

  • Shifting from a siloed leadership structure to an accountable leadership system.

  • Creating greater trust through more open and honest conversations.

  • Spending less time on operational issues and more on strategic priorities.

  • Challenging ideas more constructively whilst enhancing relationships.

  • Coordinating action more effectively across the organisation.

  • Learning faster from both successes and failures.

  • Operating more than the sum of their individual capabilities.

  • Building a culture of teamwork as a sustained competitive advantage

5 Disciplines that distinguish flourishing teams:

Discipline 1: DISCOVER – our Mandate. Teams know and understand their stakeholders’ mandate.

Discipline 2: DECLARE – our Purpose. Teams are unified by a common shared purpose.

Discipline 3: DESIGN – our Culture. Teams succeed through building quality working relationships

Discipline 4: DELIVER – our Results. Team members hold themselves accountable to the team’s collective goals

Discipline 5: DEVELOP – our Learning. Team members take responsibility for their own and other’s learning, growth, and success.

The Team Better Together Program includes:

ANALYSIS PHASE
Conduct the 5 Disciplines of a High Performing Team assessment and 1:1 exploratory conversations to scope out what success looks like as a high performing team.

TEAM WORKSHOPS
Facilitated team workshops to embed each of the 5 Disciplines of a high performing team.

PEER ACTION LEARNING
To build a learning culture by supporting each other to apply the collective learnings.

EXECUTIVE COACHING
To support and enable the team’s leader to facilitate lasting positive behavioural change.

IN-TEAM COACHING
To support the team by facilitating learning, in real time, on real matters.

RETURN-ON-LEARNING EXPERIENCE (ROLE)
A post program re-assessment of the shift in each of the 5 Disciplines of a high performing team.

Does your team more often flounder, function, or flourish? To find out, take the quiz?

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Team Better Together - 5 Disciplines of High Performing Teams

Bernard’s book, published in 2021, provides an in-depth perspective on what’s required to maximise team performance. It explains how the 5 disciplines are key to teaming better together.

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Testimonials

  • “Bernard worked with the Finance Leadership Team at GWF to team better together. It can be quite tricky working in a group office environment where silos are a risk. The tools and techniques that Bernard taught us facilitated greater trust across the team and more collaboration in areas where we could make a difference together. The breakthrough was twofold: firstly, determining the purpose of our FLT group and secondly how we changed the way we interacted with each other to create cohesion and value.”

    Lorna Raine (CFO - George Weston Foods)

  • "If you have done many leadership workshops, but are looking for true change Scaling Leadership would be my choice. Bernard invites you to commence a journey of self discovery through relevant pre-work, contemporary industry cases and insightful monthly modules. What I valued most about Bernard was his ability to encourage leaders of all levels to be their best self without judgment, and providing frameworks to support their quest for great work after the course was completed. ...”

    Elise Karadjian (Head of Retail - Camilla)

  • “Bernard has both an engaging and challenging facilitating style which encourages thinking and discussion. Our leaders are bright smart people and I knew they needed someone who had a strong presence, whose material was thought provoking and up-to-date and who could move our leaders forward on their leadership journey…”

    Linda Smith (Manager – People & Culture, ISPT)

  • “The greatest and unique aspect that Bernard bought to the program – that I have rarely seen in any other facilitator – is his ability to enable people to think, feel and speak freely without fear of repercussion.”

    Sean Dempsey (CEO - Plan Partners)

  • “I credit Bernard with helping us transform our business from a “good” company to a “great” company – he has helped us to understand where we are as a leadership team and what we need to do to take us from a functional team to a flourishing leadership team.”

    Diego Ascani (CEO - Sedgwick Australia)

  • “Bernard has helped us mould a newly formed, first-class, group of individuals into a seamless leadership team, collectively accountable for decision-making and speedier cross functional working in a high growth business.”

    Jane McNally (CEO - Camilla)

  • “Bernard has helped us, as the leadership team, to understand and commit to teaming better together – Bernard helped us create a safe space to discuss the undiscussables through developing a culture of openness and trust with a clear team purpose and values.”

    Karen McGoldrick (VP and MD - Invisalign Australia)

  • “The challenge for us was that we were a team of individuals. Bernard has helped us to adapt our approach to achieve as a team to reach the next level of results.”

    Toby Long (GM NSW Residential
     – Mirvac)

  • “I have seen Bernard have a profound impact on personal careers and with Bernard’s guidance many of the team (including myself) have learnt the power of slowing down, of staying in the moment, or ‘staying in the question’ as Bernard would express it, to better observe what a certain scenario or discussion is surfacing. I highly recommend spending time in Bernard’s presence and if you are lucky enough to work him, make the most of every minute.”

    Stacey Tomasoni (CEO - Datacom Connect)

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To find out more about how the Team Better Together Program and participate in the 5 Disciplines of a High Performing Team, speak with Bernard on ‭+61 414 654 437‬ or email him.

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