The TEAMS Compass™ Leadership Waypoints™ | Level 1 Get your team dynamics back on track This practical leadership tool helps you to reflect on what’s really happening in your team and focus your effort where it will make the biggest difference.

When teams feel busy but stuck, engaged but inconsistent, or productive but tense, leaders are often left guessing what to focus on first. The TEAMS Compass™ gives you a simple, structured way to step back, understand your team as a system, and identify where pressure or misalignment is sitting. The Compass helps leaders move beyond surface symptoms and into more deliberate leadership action and is built around five core directions; Trust, Engagement, Accountability, Mobility, and Safety.

It provides a shared language, practical prompts, and worked examples that support clearer conversations and better decisions, without defaulting to quick fixes or assumptions.

This is not a survey or a diagnostic scorecard. It is a leadership framework designed for real-world contexts, including shift work, hybrid teams, operational environments, and changing priorities. It supports leaders to pause, reflect, and reorient before acting.

Designed for Australian businesses The TEAMS Compass™ is for:  

• People leaders and frontline managers responsible for team performance, safety, and engagement

• Middle managers navigating complexity, change, or competing priorities

• Leaders working across shifts, locations, or hybrid and remote environments

• Professionals stepping into leadership for the first time

• People and Culture practitioners looking for a practical leadership tool.

It is suitable for use across sectors, including mining and resources, health and care, local government, professional services, and not-for-profit organisations.

Supporting great leadership  

This tool has been developed for individual leaders to use with their immediate team. Using the TEAMS Compass™ supports leaders to:  

• Identify what is happening beneath the surface of team dynamics

• Avoid overcorrecting or jumping to solutions that do not address the real issue

• Focus leadership effort where it will have the greatest impact

• Create clearer, more productive conversations with their team

• Lead with greater confidence during periods of change, pressure, or uncertainty.

Looking to use this with a team or across your organisation? We offer team and organisational licences, facilitated sessions, and integrated Leadership Waypoints™ programs.