What Thomas Edison can teach you about teams
Edison was unique in thinking "team". Behind every company’s success there’s often a strong team.
Talks
What makes some teams perform far better
than others — even with the same talent? Get a look
at how you build a high-performance team.
Martin Erichsen’s talk on high-performance teams is about setting goals and reaching them together. The talk is for teams, leaders and ambitious organisations — private and public. It lasts up to an hour. Martin gives it across Denmark and abroad — in Danish or English.
Behind every company’s success stand high-performance teams. A close group of committed people who make each other better. When we think about productivity, we often focus on the individual — but it’s by optimising the team that a project really reaches its next level.
About the talk in brief
Wellbeing alone doesn’t make high-performance teams succeed. The engagement has to be focused, so we create results. The challenge is that we’re so busy with the daily grind that we lose the overview and get easily distracted — when the goal is open to interpretation, or when a task looks more fun than the one that matters most.
High-performance teams can set goals and reach them together. That’s why they can succeed in any market, against any competitor, at any time. How do they do it? And maybe more importantly — what can we learn from them?
Same talent, markedly better results. How do the best teams do it? And what can you learn from them?
Five experts don’t automatically make an expert team.
Martin showed 85 employees across 18 nationalities what it really feels like to be a team.
It became an absolutely decisive turning point for how we worked together afterwards.
As a speaker, Martin is absolutely on a par with the very best we’ve had.
An outstanding performance — the right balance of humour and seriousness delivering razor-sharp points about teamwork.
Martin’s entertaining talks are relevant for the team, the leadership and the whole organisation.
By following research into psychological safety, team development and organisational psychology — combined with over two decades of practice in everything from factory floors to boardrooms. That mix is what makes the points not just explained — but recognised.
The talk works as a session at a theme day, staff day or conference. It’s for teams, leaders and ambitious organisations — private and public. Clients include Novo Nordisk, LEGO and A.P. Møller – Mærsk.
Yes. Humour is a core part of Martin Erichsen’s talk on high-performance teams. The audience laughs while they think — and keeps thinking long after. That makes the points easy to remember.
Martin gives talks across Denmark and abroad. The talk lasts up to an hour.
The price depends on length and number of attendees. Tell us a bit about your event in the contact form. You get an answer within one working day.
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