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Culture Conversation Sheet

Discover how to start a meaningful conversation about culture in the workplace and create lasting one-on-one connections with your team.
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Tools & Ideas

Soft Skills Survey

Thriving teams are the foundation of talent development and performance. But when everyone is busy and budgets are tight, training must be more deliberate. Start by getting the basic skills right.
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Cards & teamplays

Reflect and re-energise to promote wellness and resilience

This TeamPlay includes curated Flow Conversation Cue Cards from Leadership @ Work and Resilience @ Work, to help you reflect and explore team behaviours and relationships.
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Whitepapers

Better Workplace Collaboration

Great collaboration happens when you have great workspaces where teams of different sizes and priorities can meet the way they want to meet and work together to solve complex problems.
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How to' Guides, workshops & canvases

Business Model Canvas for Teams

The Business Model Canvas for Teams combines the 4 key elements for thriving at work with our collaboration model and the traditional BMC template to help leaders and teams create a thriving workplace.
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Whitepapers & Research
Whitepapers

Collaborative Leadership Whitepaper

The way we work has changed dramatically. Teamwork is now the predominant method for organising work and managing the complexity of both content and tools.
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How to' Guides, workshops & canvases

Leaders Guide to Better Meetings

Too many meetings? You're not alone. In The Leaders Guide to Better Meetings, we've used our Hargraves Question Canvas Methodology to capture the essence of the problem and provide tools and resources to help you ask questions, make meetings matter ...
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How to create hybrid teams that work (ebook)

The transition from traditional office-based work to hybrid working can be daunting. Designed for team and workgroup leaders, this timely eBook breaks down the challenge into simple, logical steps. It's a step-by-step guide to help you build successful hybrid teams ...
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Collaboration & Teams

Hybrid Teamworking Toolkit

It's clear that the shift to hybrid working isn't a short-term blip, so after all this time, why is leading a hybrid or remote team still challenging? It doesn't matter which digital tools you use, great digital teamwork starts with ...
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Toolkits, surveys
Collaboration & Teams

Team Day Toolkit for Leaders

At Hargraves, we've facilitated hundreds (if not thousands) of Team Days. So we've collated our top tips and 4 of our popular downloadable team tools to help you deliver your own successful Team Day.
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Whitepapers & Research
Whitepapers

Connect. Create. Celebrate. A step-by-step guide to physical workplace collaboration

As the working landscape continues to evolve, organisations have had to think on their feet and change how they do things. But how do you find the right balance between online and offline collaboration?
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Cards & teamplays

Time To Love Your Work

Running a hybrid team isn’t easy. Use the free TeamPlay and a curated selection of action-oriented Strategy and Everyday Practice cards to explore ways to build a hybrid working model that gives flexibility around where AND when you work.
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Whitepapers

There’s More To Work Than Working

Recently, we’ve seen lots of research about the productivity gains and benefits of working from home, but perhaps it’s time to ask: Is there a cost? While we might be more productive now, are we sacrificing the very elements that ...
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How do you recharge your team during times of uncertainty? (TeamPlay)

This TeamPlay includes questions from the Resilience @ Work toolkit, handpicked to help individuals and teams boost energy and resilience.
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Resilience for Thriving Teams Kit

Download the free DIY Resilience for Thriving Teams toolkit to discover the actions you can take to build resilience and thriving teams.
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Tools & Ideas

Innovation Conversation

Based on our 123 Innovate See Think Do model, the Innovation Conversation has been designed to engage staff and colleagues when thinking through an idea. As you create a conversation and ask questions, your thinking will develop and the idea ...
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Tools & Ideas

20 Myths of Innovation

Sometimes in innovation, what you expect to happen, doesn't. We call it a ‘myth of innovation’. Download our top 20 Myths of Innovation.
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How-to-Guides and Canvases
How to' Guides, workshops & canvases

Leadership Matters

Successful leadership demands innovation, superior skills and the ability to motivate and inspire others. This leadership ‘How to’ guide includes trigger questions to help leaders and teams gain consensus on how they work and behave.
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How to' Guides, workshops & canvases

Thriving Teams for Collaboration & Growth

In our experience, collaboration thrives on 2 key attributes ― ’confidence’ and ‘connectedness’. This ebook shares 20 years' experience and tools to help teams and individuals develop healthy collaboration.
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How to' Guides, workshops & canvases

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Deep Dive Question Canvas

Diversity, inclusion and belonging are critical for a healthy society, economy and workplace. This deep-dive canvas includes detailed questions to identify ways you can nurture diversity, inclusion and belonging, in-person and online.
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How to' Guides, workshops & canvases

123 Innovate Guide

A guide to understanding ‘See Think Do’ and the process and method underpinning 123 Innovate.
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How to' Guides, workshops & canvases

The Modern Workplace Canvas for Thriving Teams

Whether you use Microsoft 365, Teams, Yammer, or something else, you already have the tools for better digital collaboration. Now you need to develop a ‘people first’ approach.
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Tools & Ideas

Collaboration Diagnostic

Answer 6 simple questions to determine how you really feel about collaboration.
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Cards & teamplays

Digital Team Builder Intro Pack

Don't start with a blank page. Start building your digital team-working capability using the free Digital Team Builder Intro pack including strategy and tactics game-play cards.
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Tools & Ideas

Continuous Improvement Cycle

Learn how to set up and maintain a continuous improvement cycle and build and sustain successful digital teamworking habits using Digital Team Builder.
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Tools & Ideas

Digital Collaboration Diagnostic

Use the Digital Collaboration Diagnostic to assess your team’s collaborative behaviours and identify which behaviours need attention most.
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Innovation Principles & Priorities

The foundation of innovation is existing and proven knowledge and methods. In our experience, this foundation comprises 4 pillars, 8 principles and 16 building blocks. The first step is to identify your team’s priorities and how you perform in those ...
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Whitepapers & Research
Whitepapers

Governing Innovation for Performance​

Today, in a world of increasing competition and accelerating rates of change, leaders are faced with the dilemma of how to balance both ‘doing things right’ and ‘doing the right things’. It is time to ‘work different’.
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Whitepapers

Good Is The Enemy Of Great​

Good performance doesn’t cut it anymore. People and teams have to be more resilient, more adaptive and more collaborative to maximise learning and change. People and teams have to be great.
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Sharing the Secrets of Successful Transformation

Break down the silos to collaborate and transform and explore our process to build healthy collaboration at work, both face-to-face and online.
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Pause & Reflect

Pause and reflect, take some time to think about what you've learnt and how you might apply it in your life and work.
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Ebooks, playbooks

A Quest for Innovation

Written for leaders and teams (of all shapes and sizes), this ebook shares the secrets to long-term performance, improvement and growth, including tools and a step-by-step process.
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Ebooks, playbooks

Remote Teams & Teamworking playbook

Download the Remote Teams Playbook with actionable steps to ensure the best use of your digital workplace collaboration tools.
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Ebooks, playbooks

Designing Collaboration for Senior Leaders Playbook

Simple steps to generate great collaboration behaviours and help you maximise the use of the digital collaboration tools that are right at your fingertips.
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Ask, Don’t Tell

Take some time to bring out the best in others through better question skills. Download the ‘Ask Don’t Tell’ Tool for questions and prompts to help you get started.
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