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High-performing teams in a modern organisation

High-performing teams in a modern organisation

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23 April 2026 08:45 - 11:45 Swissotel Sydney, 68 Market St, Sydney

High-performing teams in a modern organisation is an interactive workshop designed for leaders who want to lift productivity without burning people out.

In today’s modern organisations, performance challenges are rarely about effort or capability alone. They are shaped by competing priorities, unclear decision rights, hidden dynamics, and ways of working that haven’t kept pace with complexity. This workshop helps participants make sense of what is really getting in the way of team performance — and what actually enables teams to do their best work.

Through practical frameworks, live reflection, and facilitated group exercises, participants will explore how high-performing teams operate in uncertain environments: how they create clarity, share responsibility, regulate pressure, and adapt ways of working as conditions change. Rather than defaulting to quick fixes or productivity hacks, the session focuses on building the conditions that allow performance to emerge and be sustained.

The workshop is highly participatory, drawing on real challenges from participants’ own teams. Participants will leave with sharper insight into their team dynamics, a clearer view of where productivity is being lost, and practical actions they can test immediately to improve focus, collaboration, and performance.

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The Facilitator

Justina Stromnes - Organisational Psychologist and Principal at Bendelta

Justina is a registered Organisational Psychologist, Principal Consultant at Bendelta and accredited as a Global Leadership Coach by the Global Leadership Association. An experienced leadership development expert, top team and executive coach with over 25 years’ experience, Justina helps leaders and teams develop new mindsets for thinking, acting and leading.

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