When Teams Get Stuck...
Effective teams don't just happen. They're built - and when they stop working, the causes are often invisible. We help teams see what's really going on, and support them to work towards where they deserve to be.
The Problem:
The away-day felt good. The action points were clear.
But... Three weeks later, nothing's changed. Sound familiar?
That's because sustainability isn't a technical problem - it's a leadership challenge. Carbon strategies stall, not because the data's wrong, but because the organisation isn't ready to change. We work at both levels: rigorous measurement and the human dynamics that determine whether change sticks.
Team dynamics aren't just about communication skills or role clarity. They're about anxiety, authority, and the unconscious patterns groups develop to manage difficult feelings. We address those underlying dynamics - which is why changes stick.
How We Work:
Team Dynamics Consultancy
Deep diagnostic work examining how your team actually functions - the spoken rules and the unspoken ones. Usually 10 sessions with senior managers and/or teams.
MBTI Team Profiling
Understanding personality preferences to improve communication, problem-solving, and collaboration. Particularly powerful for hybrid and distributed teams (see also the Profiles section)
Action Learning Sets
Structured peer learning that builds problem-solving capacity, critical thinking, and lasting networks. We train your people to facilitate their own sets.
Culture & Values Work
Defining and embedding values that people actually live - not just laminated posters on the kitchen wall.
Training
One-day sessions: Leading Teams, Psychological Safety, AI Governance, Finding Authority at Work, Supporting Diversity, Leading Through Change, Hybrid Working, Conflict to Collaboration, Anxiety in the Workplace, ISO 45003.
Measurable Outcomes:
Increase in employee engagement scores
Reduction in team conflict incidents
Improvement in problem-solving efficiency
Enhanced retention rates
Accelerated transformation implementation timelines
Improved leadership team effectiveness ratings
Higher stakeholder satisfaction with change communication
Increased internal change management capability scores
Enhanced cultural alignment with strategic objectives
Strengthened impact performance integration metrics
Client Impact
"Your consultancy sessions were fantastic. Our team gained so much from understanding our team dynamics and managing external suppliers."
- Keith Bourn Assistant Director of Strategic Estates at East Kent Hospitals University NHS
Deep Dive Into:
Org Purpose & Development - Impact Driven Transformation
Managerial Leadership Skills - Training
Org. Purpose & Development:Keen to take your organisation to the next level?
ALINGING PEOPLE AND PURPOSE:
Our organisational development work centres on helping organisations to refocus on what’s important, and reassess where effort needs to be redirected. We can assess if your organisation is aligned with your stated purpose, and how to integrate AI through an ESG Governance lens. We can partner with you to re-examine this purpose in light of changes in your client/operating environment, and determine how best to implement change in the organisation.
In general, we would undertake 10 consultation sessions; meeting with senior managers and/or teams. We may also design one-to-one sessions in response to clients' needs. Organisational System Consultancy is a process designed around analysing any organisational/team issues, examining any connection to wider, or historic problems, and designing intervention processess to address issues and move forward.
Consultancy looks at how organisational values and aims are reflected in what people do, and in how they interact. We build understanding around how the organisational system is helping or hindering these processes, so that people are aligned with process and purpose.
CASE STUDIES:
A challenging Senior Management Team and Leader Dynamic
Working with a new-to-role School Head Teacher, and their SMT, as both faced challenges in facing change of leadership and authority.
Developing, and Integrating Purpose and Organisational Values
We defined and embedded organisational values in the behaviours of staff in a private London hospital.
Impact Driven Transformation:
Organisational Capabilities for Sustainable Change
ENABLING LEADERS TO DRIVE MEANINGFUL TRANSFORMATION:
At Condon Consulting, we specialise in helping impact-focused organisations align commercial performance with environmental, social, and governance objectives. Our whole-system approach ensures transformation initiatives address both strategic requirements and human dynamics, creating sustainable change that resonates throughout the organisation.
Our Core Capabilities:
Leadership Team Development for Impact Performance
- Executive Coaching: Individual development for senior leaders navigating complex change whilst balancing commercial and impact objectives
- Team Effectiveness: Identifying and addressing barriers to collective leadership performance during transformation
- Whole-Systems Analysis: Understanding unconscious dynamics that can accelerate or derail impact-driven initiatives
Organisational Change for ESG Integration
- Change Architecture Design: Comprehensive frameworks for embedding ESG requirements into operational processes
- Stakeholder Engagement: Multi-level communication strategies addressing rational and emotional aspects of sustainability adoption
- Culture Integration: Translating impact values into daily behaviours and decision-making processes
Capability Building for Portfolio Companies
- Impact Leadership Development: Building competencies required for managing investor expectations alongside ESG performance
- Middle Management Enablement: Developing capacity to translate impact strategy into operational excellence
- Change Champion Networks: Creating internal capacity for sustaining transformation beyond external support
International Impact Transformation Experience
- European Markets: Supporting organisations across Germany, France, Italy, the Nordic region, and UK in sustainable transformation
- Portfolio Company Expertise: Understanding unique dynamics of balancing investor requirements with impact objectives
- Cross-Cultural Change: Multilingual capabilities enabling effective engagement across diverse contexts
Why Choose Condon Consulting for Impact Transformation
Psychological Sophistication: Our systems-psychodynamic foundation means we address not just technical change requirements but the human dynamics that determine transformation success.
Evidence-Based Methodology: All interventions grounded in organisational psychology research and proven change management frameworks.
Sustainable Results: Focus on building internal capability rather than creating dependency, ensuring transformation momentum continues independently.
Values Alignment: Deep commitment to transformation that creates authentic value aligned with broader environmental and social systems health.
Client Testimonial
"John's approach to our ESG transformation was exactly what we needed. He understood that embedding sustainability wasn't just about new processes—it was about changing how people think and make decisions. His psychological insight helped us address resistance we couldn't see and build genuine commitment to our impact mission. The capabilities his team developed in our organisation have enabled us to continue evolving whilst maintaining both commercial performance and authentic impact focus."
— Managing Director, Global Asset Management, European Impact Investment Fund
CASE STUDY:
We worked with this client to achieve transformation that was both commercially sound and authentically aligned with impact objectives
Developing Team Leadership Skills
We ensure teams and individuals deliver leadership direction
Effective team working can power a whole organisation. Team dynamics can also present many challenges. Particularly during difficult times, team anxieties, contests and conflicts can prevent collaboration and effective working. We offer group sessions and away days to help your people achieve their truest potential.
When teams are not working well, or perhaps not co-operating with each other,they can get 'stuck' and waste time and energy. Ingrained attitudes, perceptions, and even prejudices can be difficult to dispel.
Our team work can examine difficulties, and issues in the manager/team relationship. Through facilitating exploratory sessions, we can examine what might be underpinning issues, conflicts, and ineffective working or inability to change. We work with psychology tools and group dynamics, and often organise Away Days to help clients work through issues.
We can help you to develop and embed a sense of purpose and core values - lived and practised within the whole organisation. Group sessions, workshops and training can target highlighted issues, e.g. anxiety, reslience, hybrid working, or managing change.
HOW WE WORK WITH YOU:
Myers-Briggs for Team Building
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is one of the most widely recognised psychological tools. Understainding preferences helps clients to better understand themselves and how they interact with others. On a team-level, building in awareness of how our preferences can be better understood and worked through. A typical MBTI training workshop / away day will enhance communication, improve team problem solving, show how MBTI can underpin diversity and facilitate a non-judgemental way to approach team dynamics and team building.
We offer several MBTI packages based on individual and team applications, including group feedback sessions and away-days; click here to get in touch to find out more. See our blog for MBTI thought leadership and applications.
Action Learning Facilitation
Action learning is proven to be effective at improving team cohesion and in delivering a long-term return on investment. With the help of our highly skilled action learning facilitators, we can bring your groups together and create a positive experience of working with and through their differences. Team members can begin to understand one another and work in collaboration to resolve issues and challenges within the business.
Our action learning sets create a safe environment in which all participants are fully engaged in the process. This might involve exploring team dynamics at the outset, to identify any known issues that need to be resolved before the team can really begin using action learning. Only then are they ready to make the most of the opportunity for change.
We find that by building confidence, and allowing individuals to air their issues and frustrations, reflect on problems and question methods, you can expect to achieve and create:
- A team that works together, shares learning and whose members support each other
- Greater recognition and appreciation of skills in the team
- Motivation to work together to improve team performance
- Improved and faster project outcomes
- Team creativity and collaboration for resolving issues that had previously been seen as an individual’s problems
- A stronger, more proactive contribution to the organisation’s strategy
Group Coaching:
Coaching groups/teams is an effective way to examine topics such as feedback on hybrid working, feedback on agile working, examining team dynamics, looking at resistance to change, or what we now expect from work.
Our approach will delve deeper and identify specific areas of resistance - but also we will find your organisational levers and touchpoints which help making change / agile working easier, sparking an exploratory journey to reach your full potential – helping teams to soar.
TEAM COACHING CASE STUDY:
Teams struggling to manage external suppliers: we worked with an NHS Contract Management team, as they struggled to manage an external supplier
Training
Helping you face the challenges of 2026 and beyond
