Building Dynamic Teams

Successful organizations require a high degree of cooperation within and across businesses, disciplines and departments. That kind of cooperation requires a network of high-functioning teams working as a cohesive unit, promoting and supporting one another.

Our team building program is called Building Dynamics because organizations must be dynamic to keep pace with technological change, marketplace creativity and global competition – and that dynamism must come from people working in teams that spur innovation and productivity.

Dynamic Team Benefits:

Our program develops team players with a “can do” spirit, who are energized to innovative, and more committed to organizational missions and values. We teach people not only how to be team players, but how to be team builders. Our focus is on functional teamwork skills that form trusting and collaborative relationships anywhere within the organization, within the organization, within teams and among teams.

The team building process not only creates greater efficiency and spirit, but also develops the structure and skills which allow individuals to move as needed throughout the organization, to any and all teams, lending support and quickly becoming a trusted and effective player.

Who Should Participate:

Both pre-existing teams and individuals who require the skills of team building and leadership are candidates for this program.

Tailored for the Organization:

The program comprises coordinated assessments, consultations, workshops, and training that are selected in just the right configuration to meet the needs of the organizational situation at hand. Using simulations, coaching and feedback, participants explore basic dynamics of their teams and tackle specific real world situations.

Program Specifics

Building Dynamic Teams will:

• Help teams to clarify their purpose, strategies and objectives. Get all members involved and committed to each other, to the team leader, and to the team. Teach team members how to conduct crisp, effective meetings that get to the point and move the team forward. Assist in assigning roles and responsibilities, so that everyone contributes. Identify and resolve conflicts within and between group, and toward group leaders. Analyze personality and team player styles to understand how and why people play their typical roles. Help develop openness to change and ways to comfortably incorporate it. Evaluate progress with group-supported measures. Assist in building broader interdepartmental teams with members who feel confident about team building techniques.
• Promote an ongoing, collaborative team climate where people can risk “being themselves” and generate creative, breakthrough thinking.

A Typical Workshop

For pre-existing teams, we interview each team member a list of items perceived as issues, problems or concerns. The workshop is then engineering around these issues and become the content of the course’s discussion exercises. During the workshop stage, the facilitator presents relevant concepts and models, along with a host of learning instruments, role playing and other skill building exercises.

When participants are not yet involved in pre-existing teams, the process is identical, except that the list of problems issues addressed is generic and simulated.

 

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