• Team Performance: What's Involved
• Team Assessment
• Build A Team Culture
• Targeted Team Skills
• Effective Team Leadership
• Customized Team Development

What Others Are Saying

Rob is a "driver" personality of legendary proportions. He has a phenomenal capability to drive consensus amongst people of various perspectives,can move complex business issues forward, and has the ability to get people to engage and meaningfully commit in order to make important things happen. He's also one of those rare people of great integrity and character. I cannot recommend Rob more for work that taps into his multitude of professional talents.

Elizabeth Allen, Principal, MarketSmartz

Customized Team Development

For optimal results, teams need

1. Clear Direction
   
   
2. Sufficient and Appropriate Structure
   
   
3. Effective Team Processes
   
   
4. Trusting / Supportive Team Culture
   
   
5. Strong and Flexible Leadership
   

Customized team development focuses on understanding team requirements, team strengths and team weaknesses, then closes the gap(s) identified with customized facilitation, coaching or training.

The following are OPTIONS, any or all of which may be appropriate to help your group progress to High Commitment/High Performance:

• Team Performance Assessment to discover team strengths on which to build and to diagnose areas for improvement. Answers the questions "How are we doing?  What are our strengths?  How can we improve?"  Provides a strong base on which to design any further team development efforts.  Click here for more about our process.
  
   
• Charter Development to establish team vision, values, targets, action plans, measurement and feedback systems.  Brings clarity to the question "What are we trying to achieve?"  Beneficial for teams that need "Clear Direction" (see number 1, above)
  
  
• Role Renegotiation to establish and/or clarify member roles and accountability structures in achieving team objectives.  Answers the question "Who should be filling each team role?"  Use if your team needs "Sufficient and Appropriate Structure" (number 2, above)
  
  
• Process Review / Redesign to enhance actual work process flow.  Examines the team's current work flow and eliminates inefficiencies.  Answers the question "How should this project be implemented to achieve quality outcomes in the least amount of time?"  For teams that need "Sufficient and Appropriate Structure" (number 2, above)
  
  
• Performance System Analysis to align the team's, and each team member's, performance systems so that they actively support the team achieving its goals. For teams needing "Sufficient and Appropriate Structure" (number 2, above); also for Leaders who wish to actively support team accoomplishment ("Strong and Flexible Leadership, number 5, above)
   
• Targeted Team Skills Training to improve individual team member ability to work effectively with others. Provides proven processes for holding team meetings, solving problems, making decisions, resolving conflict, and others.  For teams that need "Effective Team Processes" (number 3, above) 
   
• "Real Time" Coaching to address real work issues and to improve the team's task and process skills for more productive meetings. Conducted in "real time" as the team addresses its work.  For teams that need "Effective Team Processes" (number 3, above)
   
• Behavioral Assessment to clarify and promote a deeper understanding of individual team member work styles. Answers the questions "How can I appreciate others who are different?  How can we turn our differences into team strengths?"  For teams that need "Supportive Atmosphere/Relationships" (number 4, above) 
   
• Building the Team Culture Retreat to create awareness of, and improve interpersonal dynamics and strengthen the foundation of trust and support. For teams that need "Supportive Atmosphere/Relationships" (number 4, above) For more information, click here.
   
• 360⁰ Leadership Assessment to pinpoint the team leader's strengths and opportunities for improvement.  Beneficial for teams who identify "Leadership" as their key opportunity for improvement. (number 5, above)
  
  
  
• Leadership Coaching to assist the team leader to establish personal goals, troubleshoot problematic situations, and increasing his or her personal effectiveness as a leader.  For teams who need "Strong and Flexible Leadership" (number 5, above).  For more on our coaching methods, click here.

Depending upon your needs and resources, we custom design a team development process (using any one, or combination, of these interventions) to reach your goals.

BENEFITS

• Aligns team with organizational goals.
• Members learn to think and work together efficiently and creatively.
• Reduced interpersonal friction and tension.
• Greater employee satisfaction and retention.
• Improved team performance.

Contact an FSTD associate to learn more about Customized Team Development

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