THRIVING TEAMS & LEADERS

Sparring & support in long-term inquiries

When you’re embarking on a long-term inquiry with a set of questions, not sure what the outcome will look like, you need a good team to navigate the upcoming highs and lows. We love to contribute to such processes as your external sparring partner and additional team member(s) who can support you wherever needed.

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Who is it for?

Teams and organisations who are:

  • piloting, pioneering and exploring unknown territory
  • seeking to strengthen their internal teamwork and develop their long-term collaborative & leadership capacities

What’s included?

  • Tailored workshops for teams & leaders to thrive
  • Dedicated 1-on-1 support for decision-makers
  • Access to our Living Library 
  • Regular evaluation of progress and leverage points

Duration

Long-term (from 1 year) with thematic cycles of 6-9 months

Expected Outcome

What if you imagine your team and organisation as a thriving ecosystem? 

This question might be new for you, or you might already have certain images in your mind. In either case: we support you to deepen and extend the collaborative capacities that are so fundamental to your work and success. 

Working with us long-term means having a sparring partner by your side to create space for topics such as team psychological safety, giving and receiving feedback, and establishing new structures and processes. More specifically, our support enables you to: 

  • expand your repertoire of methods and tools to foster efficient and appreciative collaboration. 
  • strengthen trust, team psychological safety and information sharing. 
  • build systemic awareness of your own team and organisation, and understand how to influence team and organisational culture constructively.
  • receive outside perspectives on new ideas, questions or challenges, and have a partner by your side to facilitate (difficult) workshops and conversations. 

Working on the Soil: Foundational Topics

Thriving & Growing: Deep-Dive Topics

Effective team communication and meeting culture

Meetings take up a lot of our time and can drain our energy instead of contributing to meaningful collaboration. Together with you, we analyse your current meeting structure and culture to harness the potential of asynchronous and synchronous work.

Giving & receiving feedback

An organism without sensory input is blind to change and adaptation. Constructive and precise feedback is an essential part of team communication. Considering the statement “clear is kind”, we reflect on a variety of feedback situations and processes.

Empowering team decision-making

Clarity on the process of decision-making can boost team collaboration. Collectively we begin to unlearn old patterns of decision-making and create space to set up and practise appropriate new tools and processes.

Purpose & values in teams

Gain clarity about your team’s purpose & values and how they can support your daily and strategic work.

Trust & team psychological safety

Explore conditions & practices to increase the magic ingredient for effective teamwork: trust.

Giving & receiving feedback

Learn communication practices and approaches for more mindful and effective feedback conversations.

Empowering team decision-making

Learn tools & methods to make decision-making more inclusive, efficient & empowering.

Setting boundaries & saying no

Practise setting and respecting boundaries in leadership and teamwork, and learn tools to communicate them.

Leading with purpose & values

Develop clarity about your purpose & values and how they can guide you as a leader.

Building resilience & handling stress

Develop supportive practices for you and your team to deal with stress and navigate challenges.

Leadership in a changing and complex world

Equip yourself for wayfinding in a VUCA world (volatile - uncertain - complex - ambiguous).

Peer learning in organisations & networks

Tap into the wealth of knowledge, lived experiences and diverse perspectives that are present within every group.

The Impact Garden

Discover a regenerative approach to Theories of Change to create new insights and foster a deeper understanding of your project and work.

Rethinking impact measurement

Learn about measurement as an opportunity to foster participation, reveal hidden potential, and to serve people and the planet.

Collaborative Innovation

Explore how corporations, governments, and civil society can co-create ecosystems that foster life-centered innovation.

Find the right kind of support

Get in touch to find out how our sparring and long-term support could be helpful for you.

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Our Approach

Having Unity Effect as your long-term sparring and support partner brings you multiple benefits, such as tapping into the entire spectrum of our services and expertise, including those of our trusted partners. 

And knowing the complex nature of working towards social or environmental change, we make one promise to you: we keep it as simple as we can. This means that:

  1. One dedicated Unity Effect team member will be your main point of contact and exchange. 
  2. We will work in thematic phases: 6-9 month cycles, where all our activities contribute to one clear, central intention. 

Working in these cycles enables us to combine focus and flexibility, with each cycle comprising these five phases:

  1. Initial assessment and joint intention setting
  2. Provision and contextualisation of resources
  3. Thematic workshops
  4. 1-on-1 and small-group reflections with relevant actors
  5. Joint reflection based on regular & regenerative evaluation of teamwork

Intentions for thematic phases can range from strengthening trust and team psychological safety, to setting up engaging meeting structures or strategic stakeholder engagement. All this is centred around your agency and self-determination: we can support you to identify what matters most and build the internal capacities for thriving teamwork. 

During each stage of the cycle, we bring research-based resources from our Living Library, grounded in practical experience which helps you integrate them into your daily work.

Prefer to start with a smaller scope? We’ve got you covered: We recommend checking out our offer on (-> jump) Fostering resilient & regenerative teamwork to get you started.

In a unique way that is rarely found, Emily combines competence, professionalism and creativity with enthusiasm, authenticity and fun. Unity Effect does not only talk social entrepreneurship and new work, they know what it means and how to make it work in real life. I enjoy and have benefited from each and every collaboration with Unity Effect and Emily can only highly recommend them as a competent and professional partner.

Matthias Fecht

Matthias Fecht

Head of HR & Facility Management, Forest Stewardship Council

Thanks to that, for myself I now perceive leadership as the gift and sign of confidence that it is and am happy to assume this role in my organization. We as a team could already implement new structures and tools that help us to grow together and to create a work environment in which we feel safe enough to be ourselves and to bring in all our resources and ideas.

Golde Ebding 2024

Golde Ebding

Managing board member, migration_miteinander e.V.

Pricing

Based on our core principles to empower collaboration and solidarity we aim at a pricing that feels fair and appropriate for both parties. 

Customised pricing
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Each long-term collaboration is unique and customised to your own specific objectives and requirements. Therefore, rather than stating a fixed price, we discuss details bilaterally, in general taking these central aspects into account:

  1. The intensity of support provided, e.g. the frequency of thematic workshops or provision of tailored resources and 1-on-1 support
  2. The length of commitment
  3. Your type of organisation (e.g. NGO, established organisation, company), as we work with price ranges and a solidarity model

Find the right kind of support

Get in touch to find out how our sparring and long-term support could be helpful for you.

Download: Collective Decision-Making Methods

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In this toolbox we have put together a number of tips and methods for collective decision-making, a key leverage point to share responsibility, decentralise power and unlock the capacity for creativity and innovation in a team.

Download: Giving & Receiving Empowering Feedback Toolbox

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In this toolbox we have put together a number of tips, practices, skills and methods for giving and receiving feedback - a crucial skill for empowering leaders and collaborative teams.
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Download: Collective Decision-Making Methods

In this toolbox we have put together a number of tips and methods for collective decision-making, a key leverage point to share responsibility, decentralise power and unlock the capacity for creativity and innovation in a team.
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5 min read

Download: Giving & Receiving Empowering Feedback Toolbox

In this toolbox we have put together a number of tips, practices, skills and methods for giving and receiving feedback - a crucial skill for empowering leaders and collaborative teams.