Supercharged Teams

Pam discusses how to build trust and teamship, why it’s important to decide how the team is going to work together and what isn’t acceptable.

Beth Ann Kaminkow (VMLY&R COMMERCE) and Carl Hartman (WPP Red Fuse) talk about practical examples of how unified mission, shared purpose and inclusion are so important to strong teamwork.

Working in a team seems harder than ever before. Time pressure can make us forget to spend time on each other. We’ve had to learn how to communicate better over zoom and be sure everyone has a voice and no one individual has a dominant voice.

The guests share emerging understanding of empathy, and the downsides of how teams have been working remotely, allowing us to be more human in our communication and connect in a better way.

4 min highlights from our conversation with Pam Hamilton (Author of Supercharged Teams), Beth Ann Kaminkow (Global CEO at VMLY&R COMMERCE, WPP’s end-to-end Creative Commerce company) and Carl Hartman (Chief Executive Officer at WPP Red Fuse)

Teams that have a clear ambition and motivated team members will be keen to get started on their project. However, before leaping into teamwork, a supercharged team plans the project journey first.

 

 Pam discusses journey planning with Laura Diamond (AB InBev) and Ricardo Arantes (Unilever), including knowing when you are on track or need to change direction, and keeping the right momentum towards your goal.

The guests draw on their experiences highlighting how strategy, communication and empathy can create a safe space to work, unleashing an individual’s power to help create positive change in an organisation. 

4 min highlights from our conversation with Pam Hamilton (Author of Supercharged Teams), Laura Diamond (Consumer Strategy, Insights, Innovation and Analytics Director, Europe at AB InBev) and Ricardo Arantes (Global Marketing Director, Unilever)

When something is important to us we perform better. Pam discusses with Adam Schorr (Founder at Rule No. 1 Inc) and Amber D’Albert (Paraffin) how having a clear purpose can motivate the team to succeed.

The guests discuss how teams can find purpose by understanding the positive impact their work will make, so they are motivated to deliver, even when the work is tough.  No matter what work we are doing, when we have a good reason for doing it, the work feels better. Understanding positive impact is key to individual and team motivation.

4 min highlights from our conversation with Pam Hamilton (Author of Supercharged Teams), Adam Schorr (Founder at Rule No. 1 Inc) and Amber D’Albert (Paraffin)

Pam Hamilton (Author of Supercharged Teams) discusses goals with Natalie Turner (author of Yes You Can Innovate) and Louise Wilders (CEO, The Hive). Too often teams will set a goal without realising that individual team members have interpreted the goal in different ways.

Setting goals and objectives is a team effort, especially making sure everyone understands the use and meaning of key words, visions and objectives.  Pam, Natalie and Louise also talk about how the objective may change, and how important is its to re-evaluate the goals.

3 min highlights from our conversation with Pam Hamilton (Author of Supercharged Teams), Natalie Turner (author of Yes You Can Innovate) and Louise Wilders (CEO, The Hive)

Pam discusses ideas to Find More Time with Gael De Talhouet (Essity) and Alexandra Wren (GSK).

Tools and tips to help your team to be more productive, to respect each other’s time, and to stop other people from taking and wasting your time. Do you really need to attend all the meetings you’re invited to? Challenging why you're needed, what questions are you expected to answer means you can prepare in advance. 

Gael and Alexandra share thinking around rules of engagement within teams, when to use email, when WhatsApp might be the best way to share information. Aligning the thinking and having clear logic has delivered big time savings.

While these things may seem obvious, in practice we have lost the sense of what makes a great meeting.

Stopping to reflect, prioritise and think, can prevent us from carrying on and doing things as we’ve always done them.

4 min highlights from the conversation with Pam Hamilton (Author of Supercharged Teams), Gael De Talhouet (Vice President, Brand Building, Essity) and Alexandra Wren (Global Insight Director – Oral Health, GSK Consumer Healthcare).