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Team Consulting gets your team to exactly where it needs to be.
Whether you're a leader heading an intact team, leading a team of people who've come together on a project, or a member of a team being led by someone else, understanding team dynamics, individual leadership and personality styles, and how best to get results accomplished with others is essential. We consult with new teams that need to get up to speed quickly, teams that are experiencing the side effects of organizational change, those reaching for the next tipping point of high performance but not quite sure how to get everyone headed in the same direction, and teams that are stalled and not achieving their best.
Team Dynamics: Leveraging the Best of Diverse Leadership Styles
We all know that it can be frustrating working with those who don't see things the way we do. Yet those differences are what cause a group of people to get a stellar job done. While one person sees the long-range vision and a host of possibilities for reaching the goal, another is more interested in slicing the work into short-range manageable chunks that action can be taken on today. These are just two of the style differences that can cause problems on a team. Others have to do with a practical vs. conceptual approach to problem solutions, realistic vs. imaginative ways of getting the job done, whether we're extroverted or introverted and how that plays out on a team, and other significant differences in thinking and interacting.
When team members understand the natural personality style differences and how they can best be leveraged, they have a jump on working effectively together. We use the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® Step II enhanced version and the Introduction to Type and Teams to take a deep dive into understanding how each team member contributes as well as irritates others, and how to make the best of it all. The areas covered are communication, leadership, team culture, how the team manages change, and how they solve problems and manage conflict.
Half-day session: Outcome is a road map for how the team can work best together.
Team Alignment: Pointing Team Members in the Same Direction
Team Alignment is done in conjunction with Team Dynamics. This process gets new teams up and running by helping them get a heads up on how to eliminate the inevitable problems novice teams run into so that they don't stumble coming out of the starting gate. Team Alignment assists a working team that's stalled or slowed and gets them on the way to stellar so that there's absolutely no question about the direction the team is headed in and in exactly what ways and how fast it'll get there. The Team Alignment process also reinvigorates your high functioning team so that it can easily scale the next mountain.
The process includes the design or revisit of four essential team elements: Team Foundation, Internal Team Functioning, Team Performance, and Team Processes. In advance of the meeting team members rate the team on 16 scales under the four team elements. The session reviews where the team sees itself and lays out a plan for next actions.
Half or full-day session: Conducted in conjunction with Team Dynamics
Contact us to see if this is the right time for setting out on your team's new direction.
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