Chris Spinks' Blog

Building High Performing Teams – Avoiding Awkward Recently, I was running a training session for Mentee’s who were about to take on a mentoring journey for the first time. The context for mentee’s is “responsibility”. Scheduling, goal setting, follow through and follow up is to be driven by the mentee, that is, they have to…

Building High Performing Teams – Generative Conflict We are conditioned to believe that conflict is all bad. For most of us conflict is an uncomfortable physical and mental state to be in. We will often avoid conflict at all costs. Conflict often implies right or wrong, yes or no, it is divisive by nature, it…

Building High Performing Teams – Teams That Trust When I set out the write this series of blog’s relating to the formation of high performing teams I set myself a goal of writing a blog post each month for 6 months. Now, fast forward 4 months and I have written and posted 3 blogs. For…

Building High Performing Teams – Trust Yourself First Early on in my own leadership development journey I was asked “how do you build trust?”. This simple reflective question had me stumped. I really couldn’t articulate it, I mean Trust is a feeling, right? I had established and maintained trusting relationships, not only at work but…