9th May 2008 
The antidote to poor performance and organisational stress


organisational stress uk #01“The way we plan and manage our organisations stresses them out. Stress drives down performance by suppressing intelligence, motivation, enthusiasm and creativity."

Team Business Development (TBD) is a new concept in management planning that drives down stress and transforms group performance. Our core consultancy services - team planning, organisational stress management and leadership coaching will help you to:

  • Increase organisational performance by a reliable 25% - 50%

  • Transform your competitive advantage

  • Sustain your progress for the future

  • Energise your organisational culture.

“We like team planning. It has helped us immensely. We have moved in giant steps. Work gets done and everyone enjoys the meetings.”
Mandy Williamson, Chief Executive, Mind in Exeter & East Devon.

What is Team Business Development? - A brief definition


Links below to seven other pages of information

  • TBD programmes can be tailor made to meet your organisational needs – Read more about the four options available for team planning and our stress audit service on our Consultancy services page.

  • A low stress environment is a fundamental strategic priority. . . Find out why and more about The real cost of stress

  • Read about the natural approach to creating a low-stress environment. Find out why this energises your staff by 50% or more on our managing with human nature page.

  • What are organisational stressors? Read about 25 stress factors that have a harmful impact on organisational performance.

  • Read about the transformational role of collaborative management. Collaboration throughout the organisation plays a transformational role in removing organisational stress and greatly improving performance . . . Click on team building to win.

  • Success stories– Some case examples depicting where TBD has transformed organisational performance.

  • TBD is a research bi-product from SRI in California and the human givens approach to psychology . . . Visit Research basis for TBD to read more.

    Or find out more by calling us now on 0845 0945 819

    “We are no longer taking decisions in isolation. The team planning workshops help bring us together so that we are not working against one another all the time.”Sales director, UK life-boat builders.


    Do you need Team Business Development?

    • Are you contemplating a public sector shared services intitiative

    • Is your organisation underperforming?

    • Is progress being obstructed by wildly varying viewpoints and conflicts of opinion? Are these conflicts preventing coherent decision-making and planning?

    • Do you feel absorbed by crisis management and fire fighting?

    • Do you suspect that productivity is a lot lower than it could be?

    • Are you confronted by strategic change ?

    • Do you feel preoccupied by a range of complex issues that each involve a number of different people?

    • Are you confronted with a merger or acquisition and little time to achieve results?

    • Is stress spoiling you or your organisation's ability to perform and succeed?

    • Are you experiencing symptoms of business failure? You can click here to request our free SME self assessment health check to help you identify those tell tale signs of impending trouble.

    If the answer is YES to any of these questions, then Team Business Development’s unique collaborative planning processes are the ideal tool for you.

    Want to learn more? Call us now on 0845 0945 819 or click on the link to read the article What is Team Business Development? - A brief definition


    Links to other pages:

    Discover the power of Fast Track Team Planning

    Are you getting your emotional needs met at work?

    12 reasons why TBD achieves successful planning outcomes ...

    Is your organisation under performing?

    Learn more about TBD and the public sector shared services initiative

    Contact details

    NHR Management Consultancy is based in Bournemouth, Dorset. We can provide Team Business Development programmes, organisational stress services, change management consultancy, leadership coaching, business advice and business turnaround initiatives throughout the UK and Ireland.

    For more information on how TBD's unique programmes can be structured to meet your exact needs, contact Jeremy Old MBA BSc HGDip on 0845 0945 819 – or click here to email jeremy.old@virgin.net

    The first 90 minutes of any consultation is totally free of charge and entirely without obligation.


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It is well known by scientists that stress makes a person progressively more irrational or stupid and antisocial, the more stressed they get. Similarly a stressed organisation becomes more stupid and dysfunctional, the more stressed it becomes.





It is a strategic imperative to create a management structure that harnesses human nature


With this understanding we can now see that it is a strategic imperative to build management structures and functions that are truly aligned with the innate nature of every organisation's core component part - the human being. This is the only way to create a low stress work environment. Only this way can an organisation, or a society for that matter, gain access to the creative intelligence of every one in the organisation and so produce a quantum shift in productivity and performance.

Action based learning programmes to transform organisational performance


“I have been really exhilarated. This knowledge has changed my life."

Carl Hills, general manager PCE a division of Tuboscope Pipeline Services, a subsidiary of National Oilwell Varco


Team Business Development (TBD) is provided through Consultancy services leadership coaching, and change management consultancy from our base in Bournemouth, Dorset. Our services are available throughout the UK. This unique style of management consultancy takes you and your organisation carefully, step by step through powerful new team management and team planning concepts based on a deeper understanding of the workings of the human brain.

These tried and tested team planning principles train you to work with not against human nature to unleash the latent dynamism hidden in your organisation. Essentially TBD de-stresses an organisation and enables the intrinsic intelligence within the organisation to flourish - with dramatic results for your organisational productivity and performance.


What is Team Business Development? - A brief definition


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Practical team building and team planning skills from the programme



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“The results from one team planning workshop exercise alone saved us seven times the fees of the entire three month programme.”
Managing director, UK window manufacture.



  • Find out what’s really going on in your organisation. Eliminate the “information quarantine” that debilitates the effectiveness of so many senior managers.

  • Know how to identify 25 stress factors that unwittingly damage an organisation's capacity to be successful.

  • Become fluent in the easy mechanics to overcome resistance to your change management initiatives.

  • Learn the team planning techniques to obtain valid, rational and pertinent opinion from a wide variety of perspectives more effectively than focus groups and brain storming and without creating chaos and conflict.

  • Develop the team structure and protocols to utilise bottom-up feedback from the whole organisation and translate this feedback into 20 – 40 improvement projects that will transform your organisation’s performance by 25% - 50%.

  • Find out why management techniques often create organisational stress and so generate more problems than they solve.

  • Learn the team building skills that cultivate the support, creativity, intelligence, experience, loyalty and skills of everyone in your organisation to motivate real enthusiasm and commitment.

  • Learn how to develop a winning organisation that is also a pleasure to work in.

  • Train how to pull all these team planning and team building skills together into a rolling programme of performance improvement.


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“I actually feel more in control of my business than ever before. It’s like surfing the flow of events rather than being tossed about by them.”
Health service provider CEO


Research based group planning techniques generate an average performance uplift of 25-50


The effectiveness of these concepts is the bi-product of ten years of team planning and team management research at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in California and also parallel advances in neuroscience and psychology. As a result TBD's practical, down to earth planning and management techniques are based on a clearer understanding of human nature including what motivates people and gets them to commit so enthusiastically to the goals of the organisation.

Team Business Development pays for itself in enhanced organisational performance


The power of TBD's collaborative programmes and leadership coaching and change management training ensures that all the costs, fees and expenses of a TBD team planning workshop programme are paid for by the improved results obtained.

In fact, the success of these team-planning methods has been so consistently reliable, over the last thirty-five years, in both the UK and overseas, that statistically they produce an average 35% improvement in organisational performance. And this improvement starts immediately following the team planning workshops. Success is so consistent that for our 52-week business turnaround programme we even offer a unique guarantee.



“In the old days we had no time to plan,
but somehow we could always find the time to do the job twice when it went wrong!”
Architectural metalworker foreman

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Twelve reasons why your organisation needs Team Business Development


    1. TBD establishes a sense of urgency that ignites the latent energies existing in the organisation within a few days, generating a powerful momentum that creates comprehensive improvements right across the organisation.

    2. TBD's powerful cross disciplinary processes bring the whole organisation together as a team getting much quicker acceptance and support for change.

    3. The TBD process generates a much higher degree of trust and a feeling of “fair play” among managers and staff, transforming commitment and motivation for strategic change.

    4. In the commercial context, TBD integrates the day-to-day business of cost cutting, customer service, sales, administration and production at the same time as channelling efforts into developing longer-term strategy.

    5. The open structures of the TBD process minimize organisational stress, counterproductive and corrosive internal politics and turf wars. Instead energy is expended on creating rapid and effective productive outcomes.

    6. Problem solving and action planning are launched from a much broader understanding of the issues confronting your organisation, creating dramatic step changes in performance and achievement.

    7. Open and clear communications eliminate chaos and generate coherence in action-taking. People don’t take decisions in isolation, and understand the impact they have on other areas.

    8. TBD removes major organisational stress factors that inhibit productivity and suppress the flow of that creative energy essential to the success of any group planning enterprise.

    9. Despite the openness, collaboration and consensus, TBD’s special mechanisms give the team leader, more effective control over events and progress than with other change management techniques.

    10. By mobilising the natural enthusiastic problem solving creativity and energy of everyone in the organisation, it becomes less reliant on the “key-man”.

    11. The group process mirrors an individual’s basic sequence of thinking. Amazingly this makes it possible for a planning team to think through actions almost as quickly as an individual.

    12. TBD integrates a wide variety of improvement projects, all of a different size, duration, importance and priority, into a coherent plan of action.



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By flying in formation and assisting each other, a flock of geese adds at least 71% greater flying range than if each bird flew on its own.


Contact details


Based in Bournemouth, Dorset, NHR Management Consultancy can provide Team Business Development programmes, organisational stress services, change management consultancy, leadership coaching, business advice and business turnaround initiatives throughout the UK and Ireland, For more information on how TBD's unique programmes can be structured to meet your exact needs, contact Jeremy Old MBA BSc HGDip on 0845 0945 819 – or
click here to email jeremy.old@virgin.net


The first 90 minutes of any consultation is
totally free of charge and entirely without obligation.


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NHR Consulting Ltd is a UK registered company, registered at 19 Gervis Road, Bournemouth, BH1 3EE, Company registration number: 4249824