Team Building
What creates a successful team? What moves a team from good to great? What are the characteristics of successful teams?
Successful teams connect at different levels. They understand each other and achieve results. They create synergy: more than the sum of their individual contribution. The programme will be tailored to your team, its needs and its members. It'll use a variety of assessment and other tools to develop collective awareness, allow team members to connect and commit to the way ahead.
Assessment tools include:
- Team Management Profile: a simple, but powerful framework for understanding team members' approaches to their job, their team, the way they manage work and work with others. It offers a basis for overcoming barriers, valuing diversity and differences and performing more effectively.
- DiSC: a work style assessment that allows team members to explore their individual characteristics and behaviours. Team members can recognise their communication strengths and areas where they can improve their approach to team members who are different to them.
- Myers Briggs: a well-known and valuable personality assessment that raises self-awareness and allows team members to recognise differences between them and manage them more effectively.
Team development approaches we favour are:
- Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions of a Team: absence of trust; fear of tackling conflict; lack of commitment; avoidance of accountability; inattention to results.
- Winter's Think One Team: holding real conversations; agreeing values; thinking one team, not silos; using metaphor; sharing the big picture, sharing the load.
Other team-related activities you may want to include are:
- thinking creatively and laterally
- developing values
- strategic thinking
- scenario planning.
At the end you will:
- have moved your team from where they are now to where they need to be
- be aware of individual members' strengths and overall collective team strengths
- have more effective team processes
- have a clear future team direction.
Why is this important?
Successful teams make things happen and achieve success.
