Staff teams
Liberating. Limits.
“I have moved more in three days with my thoughts and beliefs than my previous 23 years.”
Over the years we’ve worked with thousands of adults: from children’s services, youth charities and housing associations to university directorates, school leadership teams and businesses. Time and again they tell us, “we wanted different results. Grit was different.”
The Grit training model brings staff together in a process of inquiry - both challenging and supportive - which sees an exploration of the limiting beliefs, attitudes and cultures that underlie how they operate at work, both individually and collectively.
Team members reconnect with each other at a deeper level, reconnect with their motivations for doing the work they do. New ways of working with the clients they serve start to emerge. Staff are ‘reinvigorated.’
Senior leaders describe the “rare opportunity to reflect” as giving “a real sense of collective optimism … for the future challenges and opportunities we face”.
Independent evaluators have highlighted how the Grit professional training increases “Staff confidence and aspiration” and that it is this change in self-perception that ensures that the “Impact on their ability to support young people is very strong.”
92% participants are able to work more effectively together as a team
82% achieve more in their work with young people
Our commissioners.
These short films give voice to those who commission Grit for their professional teams, explaining how it has worked for them, why Grit is different and the impact they have seen.
Kathryn describes the impact of Grit’s initial workshop on her Senior Team in Children’s Services.
Amanda discusses the ripple of impact since her team’s participation in a Grit programme.
Senior managers from Children’s Services talk about their experiences.
Emma reflects on the ways in which Grit energised colleagues in their work with young people.
Read how a social worker and a housing manager used the Grit programme to change their approach.
Our impact.
Senior Local Authority Leader
“There were so many extraordinary moments in the workshop. From that initial uncertainty … to the gradual unfurling and elation as I began to discover things in myself as well as witness the impact on those around me. It was incredibly invigorating, giving me a different way to address relationships, challenges, self-reflection, team building and learning. I was energised to begin tackling all those intractable things that had been bugging me for so long.”
Director of Children’s Services
“I saw colleagues change before my eyes: the reluctant and the self-critical suddenly putting themselves forward at every opportunity. Colleagues re-energised, re-enthused and rediscovering their passion for making a difference, taking ownership and taking control.
We gained a common language, a new way of working embraced by everyone. And we delivered: on integration, on new ways of working, on improvement.”