Customized Leadership Team Development Programs Create Stronger Businesses in Modesto, CA

Proven Team Training and Team Assessment that Enables Cross-Functional Teams to Meet Business Goals in the Modesto area

The most successful companies in the world all have something in common: they invest in their people. Businesses nurture potential when they treat their employees like valuable assets, consciously cultivating an atmosphere in which managers grow into outstanding executives. Custom-built team development programs help reengineer working relationships so colleagues collaborate seamlessly and tackle challenges with new enthusiasm.

Why Team Building? Identifying the Five Dysfunctions of a Team

To build up a team, you first have to discover that team’s most glaring pain points. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni outlines the following:

Absence of Trust
Fear of Conflict
Lack of Commitment
Avoidance of Accountability
Inattention to Results

Each dysfunction forms a pillar supporting the team as a whole; even one weak column increases the threat of collapse. High-performing teams aren’t necessarily perfect and rarely (if ever) are all five dysfunctions permanently banished. Instead, team members are constantly asking questions, re-evaluating their individual roles and interpersonal skills, and addressing any changes that need to be made.

Our leadership team development experts turn training retreats into launching pads, igniting long-term discussions that create enduring and positive change. Patterns shift, attitudes evolve, and groups acquire a deep understanding of where they are so they can consciously influence where it is they want to go.

"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.

If this sounds like something your team could use, give us a call at 281-469-4244. We look forward to providing scalable solutions for increasing the profitability of your organization.

What Our Team Training Looks Like

On the flip side of dysfunction, you’ll find both power and purpose — two things our team training initiatives are designed to achieve. The heart of that journey is an assessment-based learning experience called The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team.

This model turns the dysfunctions above on their heads, reintroducing those pain points into tools.

From an absence of trust comes transparency and honesty
Fear of conflict gives way to constructive debates that encourage growth and cooperative ideas
Interaction and participation shoves lack of commitment firmly into the past
Shared responsibility for a shared goal ensures accountability across the board
Results are no longer incidental, but they become the primary focus of all team efforts

By learning about each team member and educating them on their own key behavioral characteristics — powered by Everything DiSC® or AllTypes (MBTI)— we begin to break down each group into its most elemental components so we can better structure a more capable and vigorous whole. You’ll discover more about yourself than you thought possible as you watch your own processes improve, but the real magic is in witnessing how each individual’s attributes gradually interlock with their teammates’.

Why Great Teams Matter

Individual performance within a company is vital, but when teams work effectively together, the results can be widespread and game-changing. Research by the Academy of Management Journal indicates that the most efficient teams contain a mix of introverted and extroverted personalities, and that teams find balance over time. The right team development training scheme can help newly assembled teams reach harmony within a reasonable period.

Great Executive Teams Lead Well
Leadership teams empowered with the skills they need to work well with one another and with their employees are able to encourage cohesive group efforts.. When leaders put in the effort to work together and develop trust, that impact travels through the company hierarchy and positively affects everyone in its path. Confident and equipped with strategies to help them tackle unexpected challenges, trained leadership teams experience less stress in the workplace and use vision and wisdom to lead their departments. The employees they supervise frequently report a higher level of satisfaction in the workplace and are likely to praise, rather than criticize, their managers. Leadership team training courses can help your managers assert themselves in healthy ways, excel in demanding situations, and learn to create team culture that works for everyone.
High-Flying Employees Need Supportive Teams
Some companies base their sales goals on what they believe one or two high-performing salespeople might achieve in any given quarter. In these situations, less successful members of the sales team are often neglected rather than trained to the same standards as their more gregarious peers, leading to higher staff turnover. That's a pity because according to a recent Harvard study, star performers only reach their true potentials if they're backed by stable and well-trained teams. Quieter and outwardly less accomplished staff members may actually be vital components in the machinery of your business.

Custom-Built Team-Training Courses

One-size-fits-all courses abound in the world of business, but to really achieve results, companies opt for custom-created team development programs. Here at Turnkey Coaching & Development Solutions, our training programs are built around your firm's specific needs and are designed to help your business achieve unique goals. We are competent and skilled at training both large and small teams or work-groups and teach them how to work seamlessly with one another, even under pressure.

How Team Training Makes Waves

Many experts refer to team building as one of the most important investments you can make. Improving team cohesion and function means making better decisions based on aggregate input, wasting less time, and, perhaps most importantly, boosting your bottom line. Whether you’re a nonprofit or a Fortune 500 company, success can be quantified and a high-functioning team creates superior outcomes.

Speaking of quantifying results: every group that completes the Five Behaviors assessment is eligible for a Progress Report six to 12 months later. This serves to reinforce the idea that change is not a single step forward but rather a treadmill — you’re never truly “there,” but you can increase your endurance, lengthen your stride, and teach your body to work more efficiently and effectively so you’re in a position to re-imagine your goal into something even bigger and better.

Who Team Assessment and Leadership Team Development Training is For

Turnkey Coaching & Development Solutions designs training and employee development programs for leadership teams, work teams and cross-functional teams. Our curriculum uses research backed building blocks and then is custom-built for each client’s unique needs, goals, and team makeup. We create a one-of-a-kind “adult-learning” environment and agenda that’s tailor-made and remarkably effective. Most companies come to us with between 10 and 30 employees at time, allowing for targeted training that compels progress.

We have two programs:

Single-Day Team Development Training

Provides an intense overview of what high-performing teams must learn to outperform their competitors and fulfill their goals. When your team only has a single day to give to the goal of effective teamwork, this is the program that can change the course in a snap.

Team Development for Lasting Change Program

This is not a quick "day program" or a cookie-cutter seminar that repeats word for word from city to city. Instead, we offer a laser-focused approach that uses the best practices in leadership development and work team development to help your team not only create but sustain results.

Turnkey Coaching & Development Solutions has programs across the United States, centered in all major metropolitan areas. Dates and times are set according to your needs, reflecting our adherence to client-centric systems. You’re not sending your leaders to participate in a managerial meet-and-greet or to learn skills that only hold unilateral benefits. This is coordinated learning founded on well-respected principles molded to fit your team’s makeup, and it truly works.

Improving the understanding and connections between business team members is an effective way of increasing your organization's success. Committed, responsive employees function more readily as a unit. Our executive team development program and work team development programs provide the information and training you need to ensure your team is engaged, productive, and high-performing.