Team Development
A Case for Team Development
Consider the results of a study of sixty-two CEO's and their top management teams. The study found that the more positive the overall moods of the people in the top management team and the more cooperatively they worked together, the better the company business results. Put differently, the longer a company was run by a management team that did not get along, the poorer that company's market return.
Organizations turn to teams for a variety of reasons. However, no matter the reason for creating a team, organizations almost always expect superior results from them. Because of the fact that the needs for teams are diverse and expectations for teams always high, we at Leading Challenges believe that team development programs need to be customized for each of our clients. The following three workshop descriptions contain examples of the key elements we suggest you consider as a part of any team development process.
Capitalize on Workstyle Differences
As most of us have noticed from working with others, people approach work differently. What seems essential to one person may appear irrelevant to another. The promise of improved business results through a team can only be met if individual style differences are fully valued and utilized by the members of a team. During this workshop, we use the DiSC assessment instrument to help individuals identify common workstyle differences, identify strengths and limitations of their primary workstyle, and learn techniques to optimize interactions with others.
Focusing on Team Basics
As teams develop, they move through a series of stages. Effective teams are able to move through these stages consciously and deliberately and are therefore more likely to achieve a high level of performance in a short period of time.
Within each of these stages, is a series of developmental tasks, which must be completed by the team in order to be able to move to the next stage. For example, when a team is forming, it must: 1) understand and support the team's purpose, 2) understand the specific team goals and the standards by which they will complete these goals, 3) understand the strength and weaknesses of team members- both functional and interpersonal (workstyle) in order to determine the appropriate roles.
Leading Challenges facilitates teams through the stages of team development in order to help it achieve a higher level of performance
Interactive Team Dynamics
Team Dynamics (TD) is designed as a one-day dramatic and experiential team learning experience that focuses on building the skills of leadership, teamwork, communications and problem solving in ways that are immediately useful and transferable. TD focuses on developing the "hard" skills of real teamwork that we call the "mechanics of teamwork."
The Team Dynamics experience engages teams in a "for profit business simulation", in which they learn the most effective ways of working together to produce "financial gain" while developing new skills.
The TD allows teams to assess their strengths and weaknesses in a fun, non-threatening, environment, while providing valuable skills training.
Facilitators design and facilitate events to focus on the specific developmental objectives of the team and provide performance feedback to the team throughout the day.
Please feel free to experience or MISOR Method to answer some of your individual or organizational performance questions as they relate to teams. You can also email us at info@leadingchallenges.com or call us at 866-380-2620.
