William Buist

Abelard Management Services works with businesses that are striving to improve team effectiveness to deliver more, faster
We help Directors and Senior Managers to get buy in from their teams for critical implementations. One client, a trade association, was advised by the Government that a new law would take effect in 15 months time. They needed to get all the relevant member companies to change their modus operandi, and IT systems all at the same time. It was not clear to the teams why this work was more important than the pressing activity their own businesses required, but for the trade association missing the deadline would mean a significant threat to their ability to influence future regulation. The trade association was unclear how to achieve what was required but together we helped to ensure that all the businesses made the change three months ahead of schedule.

Teams tend to have a mixture of people doing the right things wrong, (because they don't know what to do), and people doing the wrong things right, (because they stay in the comfort zone of what they know how to do, even when it's not what is wanted) and sometimes a few people who could do the right things right but can't be bothered! You need to get them all to the place where they are doing the right things right and thoroughly enjoying the achievement.