Team Effectiveness
Jon Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith wrote in their book, The Wisdom of Teams, “A real team—appropriately focused and rigorously disciplined—is the most versatile unit organizations have for meeting both performance and change challenges in today’s complex world.” However, creating high performance teams takes effort, skill, and knowledge about how teams work and what makes them effective.
Research shows that highly effective teams have some of the following characteristics:
- Trust among members
- Clear, shared goals
- Right talent on board
- Agreed-upon ways to communicate, make decisions, and resolve conflict
- Methods for measuring progress, providing feedback, and making improvements
We have worked successfully with intact teams to help them assess their team characteristics, create team charters, improve team dynamics, and build effective team skills.
Solutions
We offer the following solutions for developing high-performing intact and cross-functional teams:
- Team Assessment: Help teams take and interpret self-assessments to gain a greater awareness of their current level of functioning:
- Team Characteristics: Lominger International’s Team Architect®
- Team Dynamics and Personal Style: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®), DiSC
- Team Chartering and Goal Setting: Work with new and existing teams to create charters, set goals, and write development plans to define and improve how they work together.
- Team Building, Training, and Coaching: Design and facilitate team building sessions, trainings, and activities to help teams build trust and develop skills for greater team effectiveness. Provide support through feedback and coaching to help teams gain greater insight and achieve their team and individual development goals.
Unite Teams.
We used Elaine's knowledge and skill in building high performance teams through formal facilitated training sessions and informal coaching. With the combination of Elaine's training and coaching, all of my teams progressed and improved not only their performance but their satisfaction as a team unit!
-Director, Software Company