Challenge Sessions

Practical development sessions where managers and teams challenge how they currently work and take action to enhance how work gets done.
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What do you need help with?

Challenge Sessions can focus on a specific manager or team capability, or a small number of related areas.
How can we strengthen how our team works together?
This could include:
  • Roles, ownership and accountability
  • Communication, coordination and collaboration
  • Meetings, decisions and follow-through
How can we work more effectively across functions and stakeholders?
This could include:
  • Communication and stakeholder alignment
  • Dependencies, coordination and handoffs
  • Collaboration, influence and negotiation
How can we develop our managers?
This could include:
  • Prioritisation, focus and commercial edge
  • Accountability and team performance
  • Stakeholder influence and communication
Can you build a session around a specific topic?
Yes! Challenge Sessions can be designed around a specific manager or team capability, drawing on the relevant Team Momentum Needs and Tangible Actions.
  • Manager Effectiveness
  • Team Effectiveness

Common Challenge Session topics

Challenge Sessions are built around the relevant Team Momentum Needs and tailored to the audience and context.
Popular topics include:
  • Driving Team Performance for Managers | Commercial Edge for Managers | New Team Formation | Teamwork reset
  • Stakeholder Influence | Communication for Leaders
  • Prioritisation | Negotiation | Resilience for teams
  • Running Better Meetings | Getting Cross-Functional Alignment
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Challenge Sessions are built around the Team Momentum Needs

Each Challenge Session draws on the relevant Team Momentum Needs and Tangible Actions to develop practical ways of working.
  • Strategic Clarity | Role Clarity | Communication
  • Coordination | Decision Making
  • Collaboration | Accountability | Meeting Discipline
  • Focus Time | Adaptability

What happens during a Challenge Session?

We use real or realistic work situations to examine their current approach, apply practical tools and put better ways of working in place.
The flow of a Challenge Session:
  • Focus the challenge: Ground the session in a real or realistic manager or team situation.
  • Challenge the current approach: Examine how the situation is currently handled and what could work better.
  • Apply Tangible Actions: Use relevant tools, templates and guidance to develop better ways of working.
  • Put it into action: Agree the actions, work practices, ownership and follow-through to use after the session.
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Where Challenge Sessions fit

Challenge Sessions can be delivered as focused standalone development, within the Team Momentum System, or as part of manager, leadership and university development programmes.

We’ve worked with organisations and programmes including AbbVie, Johnson & Johnson, UCD Smurfit MBA, Imperial College London and BioInnovate at University of Galway.
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