Upskill Your Team for Success in 2025
To build a high-performing team, continuous professional development is essential. It’s not just about filling skills gaps—it’s about establishing a culture of growth and creating opportunities for people to thrive. Intégro’s newly released team-based AI software system, ‘TeamingExcel’® offers resources to help your team unlock their full potential and drive your organization’s success forward.
The software fosters a performance culture of growth; team members learn new soft skills to preserve their mental balance in unfamiliar situations. In addition, the software enables the ‘4-C’s’ of transformation – critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity. To thrive in today’s business landscape teams will have to reinvent themselves again and again to stay ahead of their game.
Critical Thinking – Why are we a team is a now more urgent and complicated a question than ever before. When confronted with a completely unprecedented situation, what is the right thing to do? That’s where a sense of purpose & vision will guide the answer; it provides meaning, motivation and offers a framework that makes critical thinking worthwhile to expand options dealing with change. When team members feel their purpose is aligned with that of their team, their engagement and self-efficacy is stronger as well as heightened loyalty is boosted. It’s not what you do, it’s what you undo. The options of what we think and do are limited by what we fail to notice, and because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change, until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
Communication – Gaining a deep understanding of the dynamics at play within the team is a crucial and an essential requirement. Each member brings a distinct set of skills, experiences, learning and communication styles (DISC personality differences) to the table. The essence of communication is intention. Clarifying it helps to communicate in a congruent manner that builds trust. The team needs access to its intelligence through the vehicle of information provided by the software. It enhances communication, empowers people and strengthens self–organisation. If it moves freely and abundantly through the team using the software more people will connect, across disciplines, across boundaries, across the organization at random. Today AI can provide valuable important operational team information, identifying areas of strength and weakness within the team, correctly match personality and complimentary skills with tasks and providing diagnostic tools to generate doable information for leveraging the right decisions and action at the right time. Intégro Learning SA, a team specialist company, has pioneered a team AI operating software system to boost three necessary cognitive skills; learning, reasoning, and self-correction.
Collaboration – Engaging members to generate viable solutions has become essential. Collaboration with the AI software stimulates ‘thinking together’ effortlessly, with speed and across boundaries. Thinking together, also known as collective thinking breeds team intelligence. It is a purposeful and pragmatic activity that leads to or enables coordinated action rather than just being ‘warm and fuzzy’ or purposeless. It is the meeting of minds where each person retains his/her individuality and at the same time contributes to a robust and diverse group-level conversation. It activates latent team potential. We value intelligent individuals but seem to lack ways of understanding and working with thinking in the “team-as-a-whole”. In fact, effective collaborative thinking is the “engine room” of the modern “knowledge and learning organization”.
Creativity – Creativity is the ability to think and see a task or a problem in a new or different way, or the ability to use imagination to generate new ideas. The advantage of a team is the collective latent creative potential inherent in each member that can enable solving complex problems and serving the customer better. The software stimulates creativity by making connections, finding patterns between different ideas for possible solutions. The software challenges the status quo, generates observations to devise ways for improvement. A team has the advantage of working with people from different backgrounds can expose new ideas and inspire creative thinking. Experimenting is now possible with the software, no matter how unusual an idea might be, to test it and see if it works is an option. Failure is an opportunity to learn from and improve.
Sources: Johan Cronjé, Specialist Coach Intégro Learning SA; Yuval Noah Harari; 21 Lessons for the 21 Century, Jamie Birt; Creativity Skills Aug 2023
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