Strike the Competitive Edge: Focus on People Within Technology

Clariact offers training and coaching interventions to enhance the performance of teams in IT and other environments. Clariact’s facilitators use a unique combination of expertise, skills and tools – called the Clariact Team Intervention – to help clients to identify the obstacles that keep teams from moving forward and to implement customised solutions to help the team members to perform optimally.

Clariact is typically contracted to optimise the performance of teams in the follow contexts:

IT environment: Complex and volatile IT environments
Team integration: Organisations struggling with team integration as a result of mergers, restructuring, job cuts, etc.
Team performance: Companies that do not reach their targets
Entrepreneurial environment: Start-ups that need to transition from an entrepreneurial to a mature phase
Incentives: Companies that wish to reward team work and strengthen team cohesion to take performance even further

Research results:
Ideal fit with Agile methodologies in IT environments

The intervention supported the ability of team leaders to put together high-performing and self-sufficient teams (“better communication enhanced performance and individual discipline”; “could form teams to fit each other and complement each other to improved performance”; ““for Agile methodologies to work you really need to understand the people in the team that you’re working with, as well as possible, because it requires a lot more interaction between individuals than another process”; “and one of the things Agile strives to do is to take the personal individual qualities, and take those into account in the way teams function. And the intervention certainly supported that and helped the team to be able to use the individual traits they had better, and to understand each other better, which is very central to agile”; “build trust in the teams, which is something from the Agile environment you really try to build from the beginning”.)

In essence, Clariact helps organisations to become sustainable based on the performance and wellbeing of their employees as individuals as well as team players. Clariact has a proven track record of performance enhancement in software development environments that use Agile methodologies.

Founded in 2001 and headed by Elsa Simpson, Clariact provides services to companies and corporates all over South Africa and beyond. The company is based in the northern suburbs of Cape Town.