Fostering Cohesion and Culture at Fonemedia
Following significant team growth, Fonemedia partnered with Scaffold Coaching to ensure their expanding workforce was deeply connected to the company culture and effectively collaborated. Our tailored leadership programme delivered exceptional value, fostering new ways of working and greatly boosting team morale.
“We have spent a lot of money this year and this way by far and away has been the best value and most effective. The team are really buzzing after the last session, they’ve talked about nothing else.”
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The Challenge
Fonemedia experienced a rapid 50% increase in its employee base. This growth presented a dual challenge: integrating new hires into the company culture and ensuring existing and new team members bonded to work together seamlessly. The CEO sought to proactively address potential cultural misalignment and collaboration issues.
Our Solution: Building Better Leaders & Team Cohesion
Scaffold Coaching designed and delivered a bespoke "Building Better Leaders" programme for Fonemedia. The programme featured a series of highly interactive, half-day workshops run company-wide, focusing on key areas:
Vision & Values: Facilitating discussions to co-create a shared company vision, mission, and values.
Leadership Development: Equipping leaders with tools to manage and inspire.
Understanding Each Other: Utilising psychometric tools like the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to foster mutual understanding of personality types and working preferences.
These sessions provided a safe space for reflection and group work, allowing teams to address underlying conflicts and agree on new, more effective ways of working directly applicable to their roles. The programme has been delivered in two distinct runs (2018-2019 and 2022-2023).
Results and Impact
The strategic approach to integrating new hires and strengthening existing teams delivered clear benefits:
Enhanced Team Cohesion: By focusing on shared values and understanding individual working preferences, the programme fostered stronger bonds and improved collaboration across the organisation.
Cultural Alignment: The co-creation of vision, mission, and values ensured that every employee, new and veteran, was aligned with Fonemedia's core identity.
Improved Morale & Engagement: As highlighted by the CEO, the workshops generated significant enthusiasm and positive conversation among the team, indicating a direct uplift in morale.
Leadership Development: Over 50 hours of coaching were provided to senior leaders, further embedding leadership capabilities.
The programme's effectiveness was evident in the team's "buzz" and positive discussions, leading to tangible shifts in how they worked together and perceived their collective purpose.
Partnership for People and Performance
Scaffold Coaching's work with Fonemedia demonstrates our ability to support organisations through periods of change and growth, ensuring that people remain at the heart of success. By building better leaders and more cohesive teams, we help companies like Fonemedia not only adapt but thrive.
Scaffold Coaching Services
Fonemedia engaed Scaffold Coaching throughout 2000-2024 for Executive Coaching Inspire Packages, Building Better Leaders Programme, Bespoke Team Workshops including the MBTI Workshop.