The Missing Measure in Growing Science & Engineering Businesses

Join Bond Williams Professional Recruitment for our FREE seminar, “Can Your Team Scale as Fast as Your Technology?” – an interactive session exploring the often-overlooked human factors that enable science and engineering businesses to grow sustainably and perform at their best.

Science and engineering businesses are built on measurement. Technology, investment, product development, quality, milestones and commercial performance are all closely monitored – but what about the team responsible for delivering them?

As organisations grow, the informal ways of working that were effective when everyone could fit around a single table may no longer work as effectively. Roles can become less clear, communication more complex and decision-making slower, while increased pressure can expose previously hidden weaknesses in teamwork.

In this thought-provoking session, internationally recognised teamwork specialist Nick Fewings will explore why scaling the technology is only part of the challenge – and why organisations also need to understand whether their teams are able to scale alongside it.

Nick will introduce the Team Wellbeing Index™, a new approach to understanding a team’s health and performance potential by measuring three critical dimensions: Capability, Effectiveness and Resilience.

Rather than waiting for traditional KPIs to reveal that something has gone wrong, Nick will explore how greater insight into these human factors can help leaders identify potential challenges earlier and create the conditions for sustainable high performance as their organisations grow.

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Key Takeaways

Those attending will:

• Understand why growth often exposes teamwork challenges that were previously hidden.
• Explore the difference between technical capability and behavioural capability, and why growing organisations need both.
• Understand the critical role that Purpose, Trust, Planning and Collaboration play in effective teamwork.
• Consider how resilient their teams are when faced with uncertainty, setbacks, pressure and rapid change.
• Discover how Capability, Effectiveness and Resilience combine within the Team Wellbeing Index™ to provide a broader view of team health and performance potential.
• Consider whether their existing business metrics measure not only the results being achieved, but also the condition of the team responsible for achieving them.
• Leave with a powerful question to consider: “You wouldn’t scale an untested technology. So why would you scale an unmeasured team?”

 About Nick Fewings

Nick Fewings is an internationally recognised teamwork specialist, keynote speaker, author and creator of the Team Wellbeing Index™. For more than 33 years, he has helped hundreds of teams and thousands of individuals across five continents understand what enables teams to achieve and sustain high performance. Known as The Teamworkologist, Nick combines practical experience with data-driven insight to help organisations better understand how their teams really work. He created the Team DyNAmics® model to measure team effectiveness and is the author of the bestselling book Team Lead Succeed – Helping Teams Achieve High-Performance Teamwork and Greater Success.

His latest work, the Team Wellbeing Index™, brings together three dimensions – Capability, Effectiveness and Resilience – to provide leaders with greater insight into the human factors that influence sustainable team performance.

Nick has delivered more than 500 keynotes around the world and was commissioned by the Association for Project Management to write its How to Guide to Achieving High-Performance Teamwork, published in 2025, and for the last 20 years, has delivered the Leading Teams module on behalf of the Major Project Association, part of the Said Business School of Oxford University.

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