Before we build great corporate teams?
Before we decide on a team building strategy as team building professionals we find there is a more fundamental question to be asked. Do we actually need to be a team or do we just need to work together more effectively?
Improve employee team performance – read before you invest:
Doubts about the following?
- Off site team building training
- Team building seminar
- Corporate team events and programmes
- Team building retreat and away days
Effective team building that improves employee team performance
Katzenbach and Smith in their excellent book “The Wisdom of Teams” drew distinctions between working groups, potential teams, real teams and high performing teams. They highlighted the dangers of becoming a pseudo-team when effort is put into being a team when a step change in performance has not been identified. A real danger in many team building initiatives is that we go off for some “teaming”, get lots of warm feelings about each other (or not!) and it ends up not making any long term difference to the business. We can support you in making sure that you avoid that situation.
If we do need to be a team are we clear on what it is that we will hold ourselves mutually accountable for? Do we know what team roles and behaviours are needed to achieve that, the gap between those and the behaviours we are presently engaging in and how our group and team dynamics will support that? If we need to be a high performing team are we prepared to put the effort into building the relationships that will achieve that?
We have a well established and highly successful approach that enables groups to move from potential team to real team to high performing team.
Resolving conflict in teams - a UK view
Developed in the UK but based on experience gathered worldwide call us today to discuss how to get the best from your team building budget. We can guide you towards:
- Effective team building
- Corporate team building activity that works
- Business team building
- Building appropriate skills
- Improved negotiation via teams
- Customised team building courses
- Building strategy for team building at work
- Improve management, executive, leadership and corporate team building techniques
- Successful corporate team training
Contact us on 44 (0) 1642 583489 for a team building questionnaire or download the relevant information at the top of the page.
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