Accelerate Team Performance

We help executive teams and leadership teams build trust, alignment and accountability to achieve exceptional results.

The Challenge

Great teams don't happen by accident. In fact, the natural state of a team is dysfunction. To avoid this fate, teams need to systematically work on the team, not just work as a team.

Our Perspective

For well over a decade, Shaun Kenny and Michelle Rushton have worked with hundreds of teams and collected thousands of team data points. From this they learned: to improve team performance you need to deepen Relationships (build trust, cultivate candour) and drive Results (get aligned, execute together).

Team collaborating during a workshop activity Building an Extraordinary Team Team activity with energy and laughter Shaun Kenny facilitating a team workshop Conference audience Energising conference activity
Our Teams Framework

The Extraordinary Teams Model™

The Extraordinary Teams model summarises the actions and capabilities that Shaun and Michelle help teams develop.

The Building Extraordinary Teams Model: four quadrants — Relationships (Candour, Trust) and Results (Execution, Alignment), across the Action and Foundation rows.
Our Approach

How We Accelerate Team Performance

01
Think

Robust team frameworks and tools.

02
Measure

Diagnostics, dashboards and AI-assisted insights to identify opportunities and target interventions.

03
Experience

Transformational team experiences in the form of offsites, workshops and simulations.

04
Embed

Diagnostics and dashboards to track change; behavioural nudges to reinforce change; team coaching to deeply embed change.

Our Thinking on Teams (videos)

Build Trust
How do we build trust in our team?
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Solving the Mystery of Human Relationships
Shaun Kenny
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How Leaders Can Build Trust - A Risky Strategy
Shaun Kenny
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8 Ways for Leaders to Build Trust in Teams
Michelle Rushton
Get Aligned
How do we get better aligned as a team?
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Is Your Team Aligned? Not Sure? Try This!
Michelle Rushton
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Don't Start with Why. Start with This!
Shaun Kenny
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How to Eliminate Silos in Your Organisation
Michelle Rushton
Cultivate Candour
How do we create a culture of compassionate candour?
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Step 1 in Creating a Candid Feedback Culture
Michelle Rushton
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How to Get Culturally Diverse Teams to Speak Up
Shaun Kenny
Improve Execution
How do we translate strategy into consistent results?
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Why Hard Work Is the Lazy Choice
Michelle Rushton & Shaun Kenny
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Ever Avoid Difficult Conversations? Try This
Michelle Rushton
Learn Best Practices
What does the evidence tell us about high-performing teams?
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5 Steps to Build an Extraordinary Team
Michelle Rushton
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How Leaders Can Influence Effortlessly
Shaun Kenny
Make Progress
How do we sustain momentum and keep improving?
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Two Steps to Change Team Culture
Michelle Rushton
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How to End the Year Strong If Your Team's Tired
Shaun Kenny

Measure & Embed (Leadership Engine platform)

Team elevation
360° on the Team
Building Extraordinary Teams Diagnostic
Relationships + Results

Extraordinary teams invest in deepening Relationships (trust, candour) and driving Results (alignment, execution). This diagnostic (a 360° on the team itself, completed by each team member) reveals how teams are performing on these factors.

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Developing leaders and teams works when it is grounded in real data. People of Influence has invested years in building the diagnostic tools and the digital platform to make that data visible, actionable and ongoing.

That platform is Leadership Engine.

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Experiences

Get in touch for our full catalogue of team workshops.

Learn Best Practices
Extraordinary Teams Workshop
Learn the proven principles & repeatable practices to build an Extraordinary Team.
Extraordinary Teams Workshop
Extraordinary Teams Diagnostic
Measure the current state, build a plan, create momentum and measure progress.
Extraordinary Teams Diagnostic
Wall Street Behavioural Simulation
Teams must make decisions, think strategically under pressure & influence others in this challenging activity.
Wall Street Behavioural Simulation
Build Trust
Trusting Relationships Workshop
Learn and practise the science of building trust, and strengthening relationships.
Trusting Relationships Workshop
Motivation Explorer
A team activity for understanding each person's motivational drivers at work.
Motivation Explorer
Tiger Cage Behavioural Simulation
Teams must navigate uncertainty & balance relationships with results in this sophisticated activity.
Tiger Cage Behavioural Simulation
WaterWorks Philanthropic Activity
Participants make a real difference to real people in need. Purpose-driven work fosters trust & connection.
WaterWorks Philanthropic Activity
Get Aligned
Team Purpose
Why does the team exist? Get aligned using the Three Types of Purpose model & a facilitated process.
Team Purpose
Team Objectives
What does success look like and how do we measure it? Get aligned through collaborative, strategic conversation.
Team Objectives
Behaviours & Ways of Working
How do we need to show up for each other? Get aligned on how to maximise the team's potential.
Behaviours & Ways of Working
Cultivate Candour
Compassionate Candour Workshop
Learn and practise a practical, science-based approach to increasing candour & psych safety.
Compassionate Candour Workshop
Conquering Crucial Conversations
Techniques underpinned by neuroscience to make difficult conversations more successful.
Conquering Crucial Conversations
Improve Execution
Dealing with the Difficult Stuff
Learn techniques for making the difficult decisions & then holding each other to account.
Dealing with the Difficult Stuff
Disciplines of Execution Workshop
Learn and practise as a team the techniques to make progress on your most important goals.
Disciplines of Execution Workshop
Develop Capability
The Antifragile Team
Embedding greater levels of resilience & grit in your team leveraging science from The Antifragility Advantage™.
The Antifragile Team
Teams That Innovate
Embedding the most practical & actionable tools from design thinking in your team.
Teams That Innovate
Shifting Team Mindset
Equipping your team with a growth mindset and embedding the behaviours for sustained impact.
Shifting Team Mindset
The Smiling Ox Paradox®
The science of becoming one of those rare people others feel compelled to follow.
The Smiling Ox Paradox®
Two ways to work with us

People of Influence is the consultancy through which Michelle Rushton and Shaun Kenny deliver leadership programs, team offsites and impactful conferences.

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Leadership Engine is our proprietary platform for diagnostics, dashboards and roadmaps.

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