Make work work better

We help enterprise leaders in large, complex organizations improve how work gets done while keeping it moving

What gets in the way?

  • Everything is a priority

  • Decisions take too long

  • Roles and responsibilities aren't clear

  • Work gets stuck between teams

  • Stakeholders are pulling your team in different directions

  • You’re accountable for outcomes that depend on people you don’t manage

  • Transformations stall

  • People spend more time navigating the organization than doing the work

These can look like separate problems. Often, they’re connected. The Team Effectiveness Diagnostic can help you see the patterns underneath them.

See where your team is getting stuck

The Team Effectiveness Diagnostic helps you identify the conditions that may be limiting your team’s impact, from competing priorities and unclear decisions to cross-team dependencies and ways of working that no longer fit.

What you’ll get

Respond to 44 short statements about how work actually happens on your team. You get a personalized read across the fourteen areas that determine team effectiveness - scored, prioritized, and specific to what you told us - plus the two areas where investment pays off first.

  • Scored across 14 areas, grouped into 5 themes

  • Your two highest-leverage focus areas, and the questions worth asking first

  • No account needed - results arrive on screen and by email

Example results

Better ways of working don’t come from fixing people

Team Impact Method

Our Team Impact Method is a human-centered approach to creating measurable, lasting improvements in how work gets done. These five principles guide how we understand problems, design pragmatic improvements, and build lasting capability.

01

Understand the system before changing it

We don't optimize isolated teams. We understand how priorities, decisions, roles, incentives, workflows, technology and culture interact before recommending changes.

02

Improvement with people, not to people

People doing the work aren't obstacles. They're the best source of understanding. The people closest to the work help shape the improvements.

03

Build evidence before scaling

Instead of betting on a large transformation, we create small experiments that generate evidence. If something works, we expand it. If it doesn't, we learn cheaply.

04

Design for how work actually happens

Solutions have to fit existing delivery pressures. Improvement shouldn't require stopping the business.

05

Leave the organization stronger than we found it

Success isn't dependency. Success is building the team's capability to continue improving after we're gone.

Where we put it to work

Shared services leaders sit at the intersection of competing priorities, cross-functional dependencies, changing business needs, and day-to-day delivery. We help them make improvements without putting the work on hold.

  • Operating model and engagement models

  • Prioritization and governance

  • Roles and decision rights

  • Cross-team collaboration

  • Workflows and processes

  • Transformation and change

  • Team capabilities and ways of working

Is That Really the Problem?

The problems we hear at work are rarely as simple as they first appear. In our podcast, we unpack familiar workplace frustrations, explore what might be happening underneath them, and consider what you can do next.

Better ways of working don’t come from fixing people

You don’t have to know exactly what the problem is before you talk to us. Figuring that out together is often where our work begins.