Ramp Up Efficiency, Engagement, and Effectiveness with a Leadership Team Development Program in Santa Ana, CA

Key Ways to Use Team Training and Team Assessment Tools for Maximum Effectiveness in the Santa Ana area

The components in any machine are vital to its overall performance. Similarly, the people in any company are essential elements in its success. When you nurture your executives and employees with effective training schemes, you help them function more efficiently at work. Team development programs designed with your company in mind can help managers and work teams work together more cohesively, improving overall morale and driving your business’ growth.

Five Behaviors that Make Teams Great, and How Companies Can Encourage Them

Even if you hire the cream of the crop, if your team doesn't work together in a cohesive manner, you might not see results. In a manufacturing environment, we know that production is only as fast as the slowest machine — this concept is true in any situation where people must work together to accomplish goals. If one person isn't working in the same direction as everyone else, the entire team suffers. If technical skills are robust but communication falters, the team is likely to face obstacles. By understanding and encouraging five behaviors for team cohesion, companies can develop teams that bring coveted hard and soft skills to the table and work together to achieve and exceed expectations.

At Turnkey Coaching & Development Solutions, we provide customized team development programs that teach these five behaviors and provide work groups with the resources they need to continue building on skills learned. During personalized training, your team of 6 to 40 individuals will learn about:

The importance of trust among coworkers. It's not enough for a few personally close members of the team to trust each other; all members — at all levels — must believe everyone else is capable of handling their position, willing to ask for help when needed and honest in working toward shared goals.
The role conflict plays in any team. Even teams that share consistent trust are made up of individuals, and people don't always agree. Teams that want to move forward can't always avoid conflict, so it's important for groups to learn constructive communication skills and how to disagree without unbalancing progress.
Why commitment to each other and excellence is paramount. Every person on the team must buy in to the end goal and be willing to do their part in working toward it.
How accountability falls on every member of the team. Passing the buck isn't an option in a team environment: everyone rises and falls together, so team members can't fall into blame games or avoid accountability for duties that are theirs.
How to work toward results together. Meeting goals as a team involves flexibility as individuals and as a unit, and this isn't something everyone is naturally equipped to handle. Team development programs help groups — from executive leadership to production staff — learn how to see the big picture and how each person fits into it. That knowledge, along with all the other skills learned during team training, helps everyone contribute positively to results.

In 2012, Google began a new research project in team development, which it dubbed Project Aristotle. The Googlers studied 180 productive, effective teams but couldn't figure out what they had in common. Was it hierarchical structure? No. Did the team members have compatible backgrounds or personality types? Sometimes, but not always. Were all the team members friends who hung out together after work? Again, sometimes.

The Google researchers drilled deeper and deeper, finally discovering the one element that all great teams share: psychological safety.

According to Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson, psychological safety is the "shared belief held by members of a team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking." To reach a point of psychological safety, trust is vital, as is the ability to disagree in a healthy manner.
The Project Aristotle researchers then looked at how psychological safety manifests itself in healthy teams, highlighting two defining factors that show up in the give-and-take of the top productive teams.

Social Sensitivity. In top teams, all the members are honest about their emotional states and moods, and they're considerate of each other in this regard.
Turn-taking. All members of an effective team end up participating to the same extent. This is especially crucial when a team is dealing with conflicts.
When psychological safety exists, individual team members are free to bring their very best contributions to the table. The team then becomes greater than the sum of its individual parts, and it is able to deal with conflict in a healthy manner and stay focused on its task.

Rediscover your workmates and redefine your company’s competitive advantage with built-to-order leadership team development programs from Turnkey Coaching Solutions. We look forward to learning more about how we may serve your team: 281-469-4244

Team Development Results You Can See

Organizations that invest in teams see both tangible and intangible results. Communication that inspires and motivates helps create morale among the entire team — something that would be worth its weight in gold if you could measure it. Other results that come from strong leadership team and work team development include higher employee retention rates (and substantial HR cost savings), increased production and efficiency and better problem solving.

In addition to teaching teams to employ the five behaviors that make them cohesive and productive, we provide you with tools for monitoring results. Turnkey Coaching & Development Solutions’ team development program includes a progress report framework . You'll receive survey results, points of discussion, a customized plan of action, guidance on setting priorities and a DiSC® team map — all designed to help your team navigate ongoing team building as you go forth to conquer business goals together.

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.

Turnkey Coaching & Development Solutions offers programs throughout cities all over the United States. Starting with well-respected resources and building custom solutions for each organization ensures participating organizations get maximum ROI from each training. We don’t provide cookie-cutter training seminars or weekend programs you send a single employee to; instead, we work with you to develop customized team development solutions that hit hard out of the gate for your organization.

Our team development program aims to provide your team with the resources required to meet and exceed goals — together. Ability alone isn't enough to sustain a professional team for long; team members need proper training, trust and commitment to the team's goals to be successful.