The Importance of the Team Charter - The Evidence
An early edition of my 'The Successful Team Manager' newsletter highlighted the importance of team charters in enabling teams to...
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Allan Mackintosh
- Nov 3
- 6 min
Team Well-Being - Lessons from a Heart Attack. A Personal Story
Well-being is a huge and vitally important aspect of team and individual performance that, I am glad to say, is starting to be seriously...
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Allan Mackintosh
- Aug 30
- 8 min
Conflict in Teams - Prevention and Cure
When I ask managers what are their key needs as regards team development, inevitably what is highlighted is the need for conflict...
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Allan Mackintosh
- Jul 21
- 5 min
Creating Psychological Safety in Teams
It is now well established that creating 'psychological safety' in teams is an absolute must if you are to ensure that your team is gong...
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Allan Mackintosh
- Jul 4
- 7 min
Creating the Effective Resilient Cross Functional Team
Cross functional teamworking is not new as many industries have been working in this fashion for many years. For industries like...
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Allan Mackintosh
- Jun 28
- 4 min
Resilience is not just for Individuals
The term resilience has certainly more recently come to the fore in the Organisational Development and HR departments of organisations...
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Allan Mackintosh
- Jun 21
- 4 min
Senior Leadership Teams - Breaking the Silo Mentality
Senior Leadership Teams (SLT) in organisations have a powerful and influential role to play if the organisation is going to achieve its...
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Allan Mackintosh
- May 30
- 5 min
The 10 Elements of Building Team Resilience
If you ensure , as a team, you are working on the 10 Elements, the resilience and performance of your team will grow substantially!...
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Allan Mackintosh
- May 23
- 5 min
Let's Stop Pretending - Real Team or 'Pretend' Team?
I have been working in and with teams for over 40 years. I have been a team member, a team manager and a team coach to many teams across...
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Allan Mackintosh
- May 16
- 3 min
The Stories behind 'Resilient PARTNERS' Part 2 - Emma's Story
I often get asked why I became a coach and why I am so passionate about resilience. My story is a personal one, and one I am always happy...
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Allan Mackintosh
- May 10
- 5 min
The Stories behind 'Resilient PARTNERS' Part 1 - Allan's Story
This week sees the launch of my and Emma Hossack’s ‘Resilient PARTNERS’ Team Development Programme, a programme that will develop both...
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Allan Mackintosh
- May 2
- 8 min
Vision or Threat? Is Teamwork all Talk?
A number of years ago when I was a Sales Manager in the UK & Ireland Pharmaceutical Industry I gained an appointment with the new General...
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Allan Mackintosh
- Apr 25
- 6 min
Self Managed, Manager-less Teams?
There's a lot written about self managed teams so I have deliberately kept this blog short just to get you thinking about whether self...
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Allan Mackintosh
- Apr 19
- 4 min
5 Steps to Ensure a Resilient & Performing Team
Step1: Provide Structure. There are huge assumptions made by organisations as to how capable their team leaders / managers are in terms...
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Allan Mackintosh
- Apr 11
- 4 min
Barriers to Resilience in Teams - Lack of Trust
if your team is going to be as resilient as is possible then one of the key factors to ensuring this is to ensure that levels of trust...
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Allan Mackintosh
- Apr 5
- 7 min
Getting X-Functional Teams Right!
Cross functional teamworking is not new as many industries have been working in this fashion for many years. For industries like...
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Allan Mackintosh
- Mar 31
- 5 min
Teams - A Massive Amount of Work To Do!
I have had numerous conversations with team managers over the last few months and whilst some have been really positive in terms of what...
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Allan Mackintosh
- Mar 28
- 4 min
Building Team Resilience - Highlight 'Needs' & 'Expectations'
It is well known that one of the key factors in building team resilience is that of ensuring that trust is strong, not only within the...
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Allan Mackintosh
- Mar 21
- 4 min
Hamster Wheels don't build Resilience - Only Burnout
Give a new team a task and what do you think they do? The chances are very high that they will immediately 'dive into task' in terms of...
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Allan Mackintosh
- Mar 17
- 4 min
Barriers to Resilience Part One - Traditional Job Descriptions
This is the first of a short series of blogs looking at the various barriers to resilience in teams and in this first blog I want to...
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