About
The Stryker Corporation is a global leader in medical technology and one of the world’s largest medical device companies.
The top management team from Stryker Italia wanted to move towards working as a high-performing team. They knew each other well but were dissatisfied with how they worked together.
Following 1:1 conversations with each manager, the aim of the programme was to:
- Offer managers a different context within which to observe themselves and each other and to exchange honest feedback.
- Reflect on their ways of working together in order to understand which attitudes and behaviours could be changed to become a high-performing team.
Impact Italia designed an innovative learning journey, blending a team development process with a unique community action learning (CAL) project to make lasting change.
Module 1: The group took part in a series of experiential projects that challenged their behaviours and generated dialogue about how they worked as a team. Impact closed the module by tasking the managers to use their new team skills in an innovative CAL project, working with a group of prisoners to help them restart their lives.
Module 2: One month later, the managers visited a prison where they met a group of inmates. As part of their rehabilitation process, the prisoners were responsible for working and running a not-for-profit organisation. They were keen to learn from a team they would not otherwise have had contact with.
The learning context was tremendously powerful. The managers effectively demonstrated and communicated the skill of team working behaviour. The prisoners benefited from their energy and have adopted a new managerial approach in their working environment. The partnership between the two groups is now set to continue independently in the future.
"Our experience has been extremely effective for both professional and personal development. For all the participants it was a ‘rediscovery’ process as colleagues. Impact facilitated all the sessions with a professional and enthusiastic approach. Our team was stretched and challenged ‘physically and emotionally."
Beatrice Venditti, HR Manager