Case Study · High-Performance Teams
Accelerating Team Maturity
How to transform team dynamics in a well-established leadership team?
Context
A well-functioning leadership team wanted to avoid complacency.
Despite a well-functioning team culture, the leadership team had a strong intention to prevent itself from falling into a complacency trap.
Their goal was to undergo a critical self-diagnosis and uncover team growth opportunities.
Audience: 10 team members
Location: Vienna, Austria
Timing: April 2026
Facilitation setup: one facilitator
The Challenge
Levelling up team collaboration in an established setting.
The following goals were agreed for the workshop:
- Create a common understanding of the current team life and collaboration practices in the status quo.
- Unleash future growth potential by going the extra mile.
Workshop Process
From self-diagnosis to growth initiatives.
During the session, the team focused on assessing the current team life, co-creating a future team aspiration and aligning change initiatives for implementation in the broader organization.
01
Strengths and passions
Personal strengths and passions were understood as assets for growth.
02
Current team life
Positive and challenging aspects of the current team life experience were uncovered.
03
GREAT team culture & change
A joint aspiration for a truly GREAT team culture was defined, and change initiatives were co-created and aligned for implementation in the broader organization.
Key Output
Three growth initiatives.
The workshop created concrete focus areas for the leadership team in the current business cycle.
Growth initiatives
In the final part, they agreed on three growth initiatives and change ambassadors to activate each theme in the broader organization.
From Workshop to Execution
Every leadership team member volunteered for one workstream.
At the end of the session, every leadership team member volunteered to contribute in one of the three workstreams.
Dedicated review and reflection slots were scheduled as part of the regular leadership team meetings to measure progress and review the implementation status of the change initiatives.
Impact
The team moved from the comfort zone into a healthy stretch zone.
Sense of belonging
Through the co-creation of the ideal team culture, the sense of belonging was reinforced and the aligned set of values and behaviours enabled consistency in role-modelling by all leadership team members in their daily business context.
Growth mindset
The shared awareness of areas for improvement in a well-performing team moved team members from their comfort zones into a healthy stretch zone and had a positive impact on the overall growth mindset.
Let’s connect
Want to accelerate team maturity?
In a high-performance team workshop, established leadership teams can diagnose their current collaboration patterns, define growth opportunities and align concrete initiatives to shape their future.