Improving Teamwork: Proven Strategies to Boost Performance

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the business consulting and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a program focused improving teamwork at a leading software company looking to scale faster.  The objective was to create team clarity to both increase team engagement, decision making, and performance.

The customized training program results for improving teamwork were:

• 98.0% Satisfaction
• 170% Knowledge Gain
• 99.0 % Net Promoter Score

Improving Teamwork Context

This client believed that strong teamwork was essential to building a high performing culture. Their teams were required to navigate:

• Rapid growth.
• A hybrid work environments.
• Increasing complexity.

Their ability to collaborate effectively was paramount to determining whether their growth strategy succeeded or stalled.

They knew that improving teamwork required far more than occasional team-building exercises or motivational messaging. They knew that high-performing teams are built through intentional leadership, clear communication, psychological safety, accountability, and continuous development.

The highly experiential workshop focused on a six proven strategies to strengthen team collaboration and elevate team performance.

1. Establish Clear Team Goals
   Teams perform better when team goals and accountabilities are explicit and aligned. Ambiguous objectives create confusion, duplication, and frustration.  High-performing teams understand what success looks like, why the work matters, and how individual roles contribute.
2. Build Psychological Safety
   Psychological team safety allows employees to speak openly, ask questions, and challenge assumptions without fear of embarrassment or punishment.  Participants learned how to encourage healthy debate, admit mistakes openly, invite diverse perspectives, and respond constructively to feedback.
3. Improve Communication Consistency
   Poor communication remains one of the biggest barriers to teamwork. Teams need consistent information flow, especially across departments and hybrid work settings.  Team leaders learned how to set clear meeting agendas, define decision-making processes, Deliver concise updates, and actively listen.
4. Clarify Roles and Responsibilities
   Confusion over ownership often weakens collaboration. Strong teams define team roles and responsibilities clearly while maintaining flexibility for cross-functional support.  This included the ability to prioritize effectively, reduce duplication, improve accountability, and make faster decisions.
5. Address Conflict Productively
   Organizational culture assessments find that conflict itself is not the problem. Unresolved or poorly managed conflict damages trust and productivity.  Team learned how to distinguish between productive task conflict and destructive personal conflict while normalizing respectful disagreement and addressing issues quickly and constructively.
6. Measure Team Effectiveness Regularly
   What gets measured gets improved. Leaders learned how to regularly assess team performance, engagement, communication quality, and collaboration effectiveness.  The objective was to better identify team barriers before they become systemic problems.

To learn more about improving teamwork through clarity, download this field-tested Sample Team Charter Template.

About LSA Global
Founded in 1995, LSA Global is a leading performance consulting and training firm that helps high growth technology, services, and life-science companies perform at their peak by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with their strategy. Learn more about getting aligned.

by Tristam Brown: CEO

Tristam Brown is an executive business consultant and organizational development expert with more than three decades of experience helping organizations accelerate performance, build high-impact teams, and turn strategy into execution. As CEO of LSA Global, he works with leaders to get and stay aligned™ through research-backed strategy, culture, and talent solutions that produce measurable, business-critical results. See full bio.