Abi Ireland is the founder of Understanding Performance, a leadership and training consultancy specialising in peak performance. As a Peak Performance Strategist, she integrates psychology, physiology and productivity into her unique Performance Advantage Method that enables executives and teams to achieve excellence that lasts. Abi has delivered thousands of sessions across continents and industries, including for major FTSE 100 and S&P 500 organisations. Before building her business, she spent over a decade in banking in London and Sydney - working on multi-million dollar deals in front-office private equity and acquisition finance teams, and later in strategy and business management roles. Her experience in high-performing teams sparked her deep interest in what it truly takes to excel at the highest levels.
All sessions by Abigail →Every exceptional team exists because of the individuals within it. We’ve all heard the phrase, “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” and great teams are no exception. When we get our team composition and dynamics right, we can together take performance and culture to the next level.
To succeed, we must embrace the value each individual brings and apply this to enhance the overall team’s performance. We need to regularly reflect on the way we operate and consider how we are truly getting the best from ourselves and our teammates.
In this masterclass, we'll identify the five key factors that set high-performing teams apart from the rest. We'll highlight the top challenges that all teams face, and we'll talk about how to overcome these.
We'll also figure out our own personality preferences and learn how to flex our style to have more effective interactions. When we take our approach to team dynamics to the next level, we create a thriving and inclusive team culture where everyone belongs and brings their best self to the table.
During the expert session, Abi Ireland engages the audience through interactive exercises using the Mentimeter app, Q&A sessions, and live demonstrations.
You will leave this session with:
No prior knowledge is assumed. It is built for a general working audience, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction. What the hour itself covers: Every exceptional team exists because of the individuals within it. We’ve all heard the phrase, “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” and great teams are no exception.
Abigail Ireland is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.2 out of 5, across 20 responses, and rate Abigail personally 4.5 out of 5.
It is interactive, and the block higher up on this page says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.
It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Abigail, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.
A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.
The session is delivered in English. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.
No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.
We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.
This one is live only. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.
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