Team Development

Our Approach to Developing Teams

ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL

We believe that each team is a unique group of individuals that has its own history and culture. We build better teams by gaining an understanding of their specific needs at a particular moment in time. We design and facilitate work sessions focused on what the team wants to accomplish for itself such as:

• TEAM DISCOVERY | Focused on enhancing accountability, trust and communication.
• LEADERSHIP| Focused on continued development of individual leadership skills.
• BUSINESS MEETING PLANNING & FACILITATION | Focused on business decisions, agreements, action items and timelines.

HIGHLY-INTERACTIVE

Team sessions are business meetings in which all participants are focused on the important work of team building. Each session is planned in advance using prior feedback from the participants. These sessions can include everything from process mapping to relationship building. All adult-learning and communication styles are addressed to ensure engagement.

What Is Team Development?

Great teams significantly impact a company’s financial success. The purpose of developing together as a team is to improve communication for better collaboration that results in more efficient and effective operations.

Team work sessions can support new or existing teams in being more impactful or to address specific issues or initiatives. It can enable better meetings, improve work flows and positively impact how team members perform outside of formal meetings. It can also involve individual skill development, business meeting facilitation, team coaching and team building exercises.

Why is Team Development Important to Operations?

Every leadership team, department or work group has an opportunity to improve its results by identifying, focusing on and addressing underlying obstacles that, if removed, will make an impact.  Whether sales team, operations or other department development, every team also has the opportunity to put in place keys strategies for success, such as:

• Identifying a team’s mission and vision
• Leveraging strenghts of team members
• Documenting key processes
• Having “big issue” discussions
• Building camaraderie and trust
• Managing disagreements inside and outside of the team
• Allocating roles & responsibilities
• Making day-to-day and critical decisions
• Communicating about day-to-day activities and long-term strategy
• Team building exercizes
• Creating and executing action plans
• Tracking progress toward top-priority goals
• Collaborating with other teams