Introduction: Pedro Angulo is the Head of Leadership Development at AIB where he leads the design & implementation of enterprise wide Leadership Development initiatives. He is also a Program Director of the Diploma in Strategic HRM for the Irish Management Institute, Board Member of Green Sod Ireland and Past President and Chairman of the EMCC in Ireland. A graduate from Minnesota State University (USA) and holder of an MBS in Management and Organisational Studies from University College Dublin. He is a prolific writer and much sought-after motivational speaker.  Podcast episode Summary: How to put attention on the Team as an important if not the most important unit of currency in Organisational Life. This episode speaks to the organisational lag in recognising the need to put attention on team life and teaming skills. Too often organisations assume you can put a bunch of talented people together and they will become a team, the reality is often very different. Listen to the many tips Pedro litters throughout this episode, emphasising attention, energy, clarity and measurement.  Points made throughout the Episode:  Pedro opens the conversation by sharing his “Why” He is passionate about people and genuinely interested in helping people be at their best  He immediately illuminates the gaps that exist with respect to teams and teaming in organisations of which he is apart  Little real attention given to team effectiveness. Much is spent of team development and confusion exists about what it takes to make teams great.  Organisations tend to invest at the Individual level and on the enterprise level but pay scant attention to teams.  They often assume that by putting bright people together they will work it out. Invariably that is not the case and the result is a group Team effectiveness is working out why the team exists, what is its purpose, how to collaborate, solve for conflict and make decisions as well as working on its dynamic to get at flow.  People are often promoted because of their individual contribution and not for their teaming skills  To address the gap we have to put attention on teams. Help Leaders create the conditions that allow teams thrive. Call it and or get external help if the capacity for teaming is weak or poor.  Develop a standard framework or model of team effectiveness that can be scaled and measured. Great at illuminating landscape data from which development can be a resource.  Organisations have individual sophistication when it comes to psychometrics and coaching but less so when it comes to Team Development  Pedro has experienced Irish teams as very collegial but often that collegiality can stand in the way of constructive dialogue. As well there is too much focus on the now and not enough on Horizon level 3 thinking  Too much “vanilla” exists on Irish teams not enough or sufficient diversity especially in terms of diversity of thought risking a maintenance of the Status Quo. Pedro would love to see more inclusivity, much greater challenge on teams, innovation and psychological safety.  To help a team think team a Leader needs to believe he needs a team and ask for a  team. Too often a Leader is focused on his stalk of work or on individual concerns to promote a team culture.  We continue to promote people on individual performance and to wit we often tie that performance to individual goals.  Leadership Pathways are often constructed in a way that misses the opportunity to provide real transitional leadership development  Enterprise Leadership thinking and skills are bereft.  “Values are like posters” we could do better to nurture what is important to an Individual and speak those to the teams of which they are apart to appreciate what could be supportive and what could detract from the team’s performance  Covid-19 imposed a strict regime of virtual working and by and large the Bank fared well. More is required to really support Leaders in this domain. The Bank has provided guidebooks, toolkits