Strong, successful departments drive growth and improve overall employee morale, and departmental teams and work teams need to form friendly and effective working relationships to achieve positive results. When bolder characters overwhelm more subtle personalities, power imbalances emerge, and productivity begins to falter. Carefully designed custom team-training programs turn the dysfunctional aspects of cross-functional teams (or executive teams) into opportunities for growth, empowering participants and instilling them with new enthusiasm.
An effective team is a collaborative unit that's able to work toward a common goal successfully. If your team is dysfunctional in any way, you'll see a failure to meet your goals or a delay in meeting them, as well as fractured relationships and non-productive interaction between team members.
Turnkey Coaching and Development Solution's team development program focusing on the Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team provides a highly useful metric by which to evaluate your own work team or leadership team.
"Assembling a team is not rocket science. Once the desired skill sets are defined, it is simply a matter of choosing the best players, or in the case of business, the most highly qualified candidates. But ensuring all the members of the team can function and play well together requires teamwork training." — Cindy Phillips, Teamwork Training Ideas, The San Francisco Chronicle.
Even if you have the right people in the right seats, their talent is wasted if they're working on islands and not connected to one another. Just as you train team members on their individual roles, it's equally important to coach them on how to work as a team, and how to ensure their talents complement one another. An effective team-development program identifies your team's pain points — the specific areas holding your team back from reaching its potential — and, through the use of progressive exercises and facilitated dialog, turns them into constructive and meaningful data-points,
now useful for transformation.
Your team development program must include a way to assess whether your development efforts are working. The Harvard Business Review recommends paying attention to the team's output and the ability of the team to collaborate, as well as individual assessments of each of the team members.
The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team Progress Report provides a template for just such an assessment, allowing you to pinpoint areas of improvement to celebrate and build on as well as those ways in which your team still needs to improve.
If a team is truly working together in a relationship of mutual accountability, the Progress Report makes that clear. It also shows obstacles to development and paves the way for team members to assess their own collaboration.
We believe team-building is an ongoing process, and more effective teams mean more productive employees. For example, managers usually don't inherently know how to effectively motivate their employees or foster a team that's cohesive and works together well. That's what our research-backed team development program is for. The members of a cohesive team have confidence in its abilities and productiveness. They also:
When leaders are properly trained, they have the skills to motivate and inspire their teams, resulting in increased work production and company profitability. And, when team-members understand how to improve their interpersonal effectiveness within the team, the team itself becomes an organization's most prized assets.
This type of staff training is effective because it pinpoints the major pitfalls that exist within ineffective teams and replaces them with positive behaviors. It also motivates team members who may be low performers or disengaged, two unhealthy characteristics of team members.
Where Team-Building Programs Take Place
The answer is — everywhere. We provide client-focused team-building programs all over the country, so chances are, there's a team development program available in your area. The result of your time and investment is a more cohesive, productive team that's able to take on multiple challenges, regardless of your industry.
What We Are and What We Are Not
We are not a company that provides week-long or day-long retreats that HR managers attend with other managers. This is not what the "Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team" philosophy is about. Instead, we deliver customized, focused assistance and team training for intact professional teams. This includes managers and the employees who work for them. We design individual programs to suit each client's requirements and goals to fix major issues that need addressing. A typical session involves between 6 and 40 employees, depending on the size of the organization.
You Can't Put a Price on Effective Communication
The bottom of the pyramid of the Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team features a foundation of trust, and the key component of this is good communication. An ineffective teammate doesn't communicate well. In cases like this, team members may not know what is expected of them, resulting in conflict, increased difficulty with accomplishing tasks and, ultimately, a professional team that's unproductive and a poor contributor to the success of the company. This is yet another reason why our team-building and team training solution is valuable.
The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team leadership team training and development program is tailored to meet your organization's very specific and unique needs and culture. Through training, coaching and team development, you can facilitate trust, strengthen your team members’ ability to deal with conflicts, and their collaborative skills, all of which come together to produce the results you want your executive and work teams to achieve.
When you're able to harness the talents and personalities of your team members to work together cohesively toward a common goal, everyone benefits. Imagine your team making smart decisions together, tapping into each person's special abilities, and staying focused cooperatively to get results. That's the kind of teamwork that provides your organization with the ability to compete at its best.
Great team-training courses help participants feel accomplished, energetic and ready to achieve challenging objectives. Well-nurtured employees at all levels interact with their colleagues and peers in healthier ways, helping to create a positive atmosphere in the workplace. To achieve real success, businesses choose tailor-made team-building programs, which empower their participants and ultimately drive company growth.
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