Setting Your Team Up For Success

Team Success Programme Background and Objectives

Euronext partnered with Impact Factory to deliver a modular virtual training programme. Setting up team success was a key objective of this programme, aimed at refreshing and deepening team leadership capabilities among managers. Building on a long-standing relationship, having partnered across multiple regions since 2017, this programme focused on revisiting key tools and frameworks. Additionally, it reinforced alignment with company-wide goals, enhancing the confidence and clarity of people leaders. Thus, the initiative was critical in setting teams up for success.

Key objectives included:

Reconnecting managers with familiar tools and best practices
Applying the SMARTER goals framework in more meaningful ways
Enabling effective follow-up and accountability within teams
Supporting engagement with wider organisational objectives
Creating a space for open discussion and real-time reflection

Programme Overview

Delivered as a modular programme of nine 90-minute live online sessions over six months, the series provided a consistent, structured learning experience. There was room for flexibility and adaptation within this structure. The first session, “Setting Up Your Team for Success,” laid the foundation with a focus on team dynamics, motivation, and practical communication tools. Importantly, this session highlighted the essentials for success when establishing a team, ensuring managers were equipped to foster successful environments.

After an opening energiser exploring the realities of collaboration, participants revisited Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team. They then dove into how objectives link to task, team, individual, and organisational outcomes. Setting up success for the team involves any objectives linked to broader outcomes which inherently supports team success in new initiatives.

The session explored Autonomy, Mastery & Purpose as key drivers of motivation. It also introduced tools like scaling questions and contracting conversations to help managers lead more thoughtful, measurable, and motivating discussions with their teams. These tools are crucial in setting the team up for optimal success.

Key Content Areas

Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Linking objectives to task, team, individual, and organisation
Motivation through Autonomy, Mastery & Purpose
Applying the SMARTER framework in performance conversations
Using scaling questions to track engagement and growth
Practising effective contracting conversations

Desired Outcomes

Stronger alignment between team objectives and company strategy
Renewed clarity and structure around goal-setting and follow-up
Greater confidence in leading human-centred performance conversations
A shared toolkit and language across Euronext’s management community

Next Steps

This session launched a broader programme including additional modules on Strategic Communication – The Art of Influence and Presentation Skills. As always, Impact Factory’s approach remains consultative and adaptive, shaping content based on feedback and evolving business needs. For future success, setting up the team with strategic communication tools is essential, further supporting team success initiatives.