BETTER Cross-Collaboration
One practical action at a time
BETTER Cross-Collaboration
One practical action at a time
Our Mission
At Crossteams, we specialize in helping organizations break down silos, facilitate seamless collaboration across cultures and functions, and harness diverse perspectives.
Our approach is anchored in four key pillars of collaboration: synergy, trust, communication, and shared success, ensuring teams work more effectively together.
We use a hands-on methodology that empowers teams to take small, practical steps that deliver immediate improvements while laying the foundation for sustained long-term success.
Our Services
ASSESSMENTS
Understanding where your team stands is the first step to improvement. Our assessments provide insights into your team’s readiness for collaboration, cultural alignment, and overall dynamics. By identifying strengths and areas for growth, we help you develop targeted strategies for continuous improvement, ensuring your teams are always moving forward together.
WORKSHOPS
Our interactive workshops address the core elements of successful teamwork: synergy, trust, communication, and joint success. Our workshops provide practical tools and strategies that can be immediately applied to enhance collaboration and drive results.
COACHING
Our coaching programs are tailored to meet the unique needs of your leaders and teams. We offer executive coaching to strengthen leadership capabilities, team coaching to improve dynamics and performance, and personalized plans that address specific challenges. We aim to empower individuals and teams to achieve their full potential and contribute to the organization’s success.
CONSULTING
Our consulting services help organizations navigate the complexities of today’s business environment. From leadership development to conflict resolution and change management, we provide expert guidance to help your teams work better together. With deep experience and expertise, we can dive into strategic planning and organizational design, ensuring that your overall structure and strategy support effective collaboration.
Cross Components
Synergy
Synergy
Synergy
We start with synergy, clarifying a unified purpose and shared goals. This ensures that all team members are aligned and motivated by a common direction, setting the stage for all subsequent team dynamics.
Trust
Synergy
Synergy
Building on a solid foundation of synergy, the next step is cultivating trust. This component is essential for creating a safe and supportive environment where team members feel confident in their roles and their peers' intentions, enabling them to engage fully and openly in team activities.
Open Communication
Open Communication
Open Communication
With a solid foundation of trust, fostering Open Communication becomes critical. This ensures that information is exchanged freely and effectively, feedback is constructive, and all members are kept in the loop, facilitating ongoing alignment with team goals.
Joint Success
Open Communication
Open Communication
Joint success tops the framework, where collaborating teams genuinely want each other to succeed and are eager to support each other’s efforts to achieve the goals. This component emphasizes collaborative work and celebrating shared achievements, reinforcing the synergy, trust, and communication established earlier.
Our Clients
Cross-collaboration is the process where individuals or teams extend beyond their natural organizational boundaries to work collaboratively with different teams within the same department or across different units to achieve shared objectives. It combines resources with diverse experiences, often crossing functions, nationalities, and cultures. The resulting benefits can present challenges in trust, communication, coordination, and aligning different perspectives.
Examples of teams we work with:
Within Departments
- HR Talent Acquisition and HR Benefits Teams: Collaborating to create a comprehensive onboarding experience that ensures new hires are efficiently integrated into the company culture and fully informed about their benefits.
- Finance Reporting Team and Finance Compliance Team: Partnering to streamline financial reporting processes that comply with new regulatory requirements, ensuring accuracy in financial reports and adherence to compliance standards.
- Marketing Content and SEO Team: Working together within the marketing department to optimize content for better online visibility, ensuring content creation aligns with SEO best practices to boost traffic and engagement.
Across Departments
- Product Development and Marketing Teams: These teams collaborate to launch a new product. The product team develops the product, and the marketing team creates and executes a launch strategy that aligns with consumer insights and product capabilities.
- Sales and Customer Support Teams: Partnering to enhance customer satisfaction and retention strategies, where insights from customer support interactions refine sales tactics and improve the overall customer experience.
- R&D and Infrastructure Teams: The infrastructure team collaborates with an IT company to ensure that new software products designed by the R&D team can be efficiently developed and deployed at scale by the infrastructure team.
About Us
Mat Shepherd
Huibert Evekink
Huibert Evekink
Over two decades of experience advising the boards, CEOs, and executive leaders of British, European, American, and global businesses to drive performance through purposeful strategy, a winning culture, and high-performing teams. Clients include/have included Bayer, Clorox, Sanofi, UPSA, and Rotork. Background as a financial futures and o
Over two decades of experience advising the boards, CEOs, and executive leaders of British, European, American, and global businesses to drive performance through purposeful strategy, a winning culture, and high-performing teams. Clients include/have included Bayer, Clorox, Sanofi, UPSA, and Rotork. Background as a financial futures and options trader in London, followed by several years helping entrepreneurs launch successful businesses in Sydney, and then four years raising investment capital for, building, and running an online game business. Has worked with several organizations to develop and execute their strategies, expand into new markets, make value-adding acquisitions, and optimize the impact of their people. Fluent in English and French. I am a keen snowboarder, rugby fan, and motorcyclist.
Huibert Evekink
Huibert Evekink
Huibert Evekink
Consultant, author, and coach working with leaders and their teams to unlock well-being & performance in complex and virtual "hybrid" work environments.
International multi-industry experience in commercial (marketing, sales, and branding) and human resource (engagement, leadership, and training) – leadership – positions.
.Fluent in Dutch
Consultant, author, and coach working with leaders and their teams to unlock well-being & performance in complex and virtual "hybrid" work environments.
International multi-industry experience in commercial (marketing, sales, and branding) and human resource (engagement, leadership, and training) – leadership – positions.
.Fluent in Dutch, English, Spanish, German, and Norwegian.
A continuous learner with a master's degree in Consulting & Coaching for Change (CCC) from INSEAD Business School and a Master's Degree in Business Law from Leiden University.