positive team development

Do you want your teams to remain well, work well and contribute effectively towards a shared vision and set of goals, even as expectations, systems and ways of working continue to evolve?

Our Positive Working approach to Team Development strengthens the psychological and behavioural foundations that allow teams to perform consistently and sustainably.

We help team members access their inner resources, develop shared understanding and apply practical strategies that support critical thinking, effective collaboration, and successful delivery across projects and priorities.

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team development

Through a tailored programme of interactive workshops and action learning sets, teams acquire and practise the skills, resources and behavioural strategies that underpin positive team functioning and measurable outcomes.

We work with teams to examine how their current environment, workplace conditions and legacy experiences continue to shape performance.

As technology increasingly influences how work is coordinated and monitored, teams often experience shifting role boundaries, heightened sensitivity and new forms of pressure.

Our work creates space to consider these dynamics carefully, and to strengthen the conditions that enable clarity, resilience, and mutual accountability.

We also support teams in identifying what additional structure, resource or organisational alignment may be required to sustain performance without eroding wellbeing.

SUSTAINING TEAM RESILIENCE
Strengthening the behaviours and collective habits that enable teams to navigate uncertainty, disruption and sustained pressure with composure and confidence.
UNLOCKING TEAM STRENGTHS
Identifying and amplifying team strengths in ways that unlock contribution, foster shared ownership and optimise performance and team culture.
OPTIMISING TEAM WORKING
Establishing sustainable ways of working that support shared understanding, build trust, and promote effective collaboration of new teams across physical and virtual environments.

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team coaching

Our interactive team coaching programmes facilitate cohesive learning and sustained transformation, particularly for teams emerging from restructure, reforming after disruption or implementing significant change initiatives.

To support the team’s objectives, we facilitate team coaching sessions, offer 1:1 coaching for key individuals such as the team leader, and contribute to team meetings and events where structured reflection would add value.

Using a systemic lens, we focus not only on the team’s internal dynamics but also on how the team delivers value to internal and external stakeholders.

As leaders and teams operate within increasingly complex and technology-shaped systems, this broader perspective helps ensure that performance remains both effective and human.

Through this work, teams are better able to achieve:

OUTCOMES
Clear alignment around purpose and goals
Stronger, more constructive working relationships
Sustainable and effective ways of working
Measurable improvements in performance and delivery

Our team has undergone a huge amount of change, not just in terms of organisational structure but also in terms of workload and responsibility. Given many of us are at the bottom of the change curve right now, it was a mark of the professionalism of the Before Nine team that the workshops were useful and well-received.

UK Parliament

 

We asked Before Nine to facilitate a team-wide Away Day to help us reassess how we work with each other to achieve our goals. They gave us the language to discuss ways of working together that move away from focusing on negativity and things that are not working, and towards working constructively and creatively, and thinking explicitly about how our strengths complement those of others.

Grantham Research Institute

It's helped us to understand what colleagues need, and recognise that just because others operate differently, it doesn't mean they're wrong. This is the best team we've ever had because now we understand each other.

London Stansted Airport

It was valuable to step back from day-to-day work and assess our values, strengths and opportunities for growth as a team. The training gave our team take-home skills that are specifically applicable to our charitable organisation, and we have since been able to implement changes to continue this upward trajectory. 

Whitley Fund for Nature

 

The team are doing great, very positive and showing real maturity about where we are and what we need to be doing. Surviving a situation like Covid-19 would have been a real struggle 4 of 5 years ago. Thank you for giving the team the insight and confidence to express their true selves and to be who they are meant to be. Feeling very proud.

London Luton Airport

My relationships with others have improved, now I understand our different motivations. There is more trust in the team, rather than self-promotion. People seem to be recognising my value and I feel more respected.

London Stansted Airport

Aarti gave an absolutely fantastic talk at our team away day. Everyone in the team took something away from her session and the discussion afterwards reflected this great emotional and personal impact.  All the team learnt something about themselves that really resonated.  I highly recommend!

NSPCC