Here's a question worth asking every team: on a scale of one to ten, how effective are you? The answers are always varied and subjective — but the act of rating is revealing. Rarely is a team aligned on how it would even describe its own effectiveness, which raises a bigger question: are they actually a team? A team, or a group that meets? Many of the teams we work with are really a group of people who come together regularly — but to what end? With hybrid working challenging

Here's a question that quietly shapes how an organisation works: what is your primary team — the leadership team you're a member of, or the team that you lead? In practice, most leaders identify more with the team they lead. That's the group they associate with first. Why your primary team matters Thinking linearly about 'me and my team' can exacerbate siloed thinking and internal competition. It raises real questions: what is a leader's responsibility to the leadership team