Team Consulting  

Team consulting is a powerful intervention that jump starts novice or newly formed teams, and propels seasoned senior teams to achieve outstanding performance. To get to where the team wants to be, we challenge its members to raise the bar and vigorously question the status quo. 

Team consulting is for...

• Seasoned teams embarking on a new strategic initiative.
• Teams mastering the next level of performance.
• Newly formed teams needing to ramp up at lightning speed. 
• Teams that are stalled or not achieving their best.

The process varies by team. Our partnership begins with a team assessment. We then design a team initiative that includes both short- and long-range goals, and a set of measures that define success. In accordance with the team's goals, our involvement may include:

• Helping teams at any stage of development calibrate in four areas: team foundation, internal team functioning, team performance and team processes.
• General team building for newly forming teams.
• Coaching the team as it defines or fine tunes its vision, mission, goals and roles.
• Teaching specific leadership and team skills.
• Running working sessions to tackle specific team problems.
• Helping the team uncover attitudes and behaviors that are stalling optimal performance.
• Coaching individual team members on specific leadership skills.
• With the use of the Strategic Directions(*) process, establishing the leadership practices required for the success of their strategic plans and team and organizational initiatives.

We consult to the entire team and, when needed, coach individual team members over a contracted period of time to a particular milestone date, over the length of a project, or for another specified time period tied to achievement of the team's goals.

Assessments:  Depending on the consultation, we may use our 4-part, 16-item Team Effectiveness Assessment and/or one or more of the other assessments we are certified to administer.

Our goal with teams is to optimize individual members' talents, align team members' thinking and actions, infuse the team's efforts with energy and intensity, and get the team to its end goal. We believe that the best teams are always engaged in leveraging their learning. In support of that, we pass along the coaching skills that enable teams to continue further advancement on their own.

Contact us to discuss if our team consulting is right for your team. 

(*) Strategic Directions® is a product of Management Resource Group (MRG), Portland, ME, with European headquarters in Munich, Germany.