10 ways in which high performing teams ensure they maximise their time together

Teams are so much more than their meetings. How team members work outside of formal meetings is as important as what goes inside them. However, bringing everyone together is a significant investment and high performing teams use their time together wisely.

1. Anchoring their work in collective purpose, ambition, and legacy: securing today and shaping tomorrow
2. Connecting with consumers: bringing the voice of the consumer into every meeting
3. Deliberately looking for difference of opinions: disagreeing without being disagreeable
4. Building the next generation of leaders: developing each other’s key talent
5. Bringing in external, future orientated emerging practices: from outside and within
6. Enjoying wasting time with each other: breaking bread together and connecting beyond the role
7. Focussing on collective wellbeing: understanding the importance of managing their energy, not just their time
8. Dedicating emergent time in their agenda: building time for co-creation and free flow conversation
9. Reviewing their meeting effectiveness at the end of every meeting: building candour and team learning
10. Agreeing key messages to cascade at the end of every meeting: developing transparency and engagement