Team Development Workshops & Programs
"Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare" (Patrick Lencioni).
As a team leader, are you seeking ways to leverage the collective intelligence, creativity and experience of your members to achieve even greater results?
Your team is likely facing unprecedented challenges in these remarkable times. Individual team members might be stretched thin in their capacities, and some are experiencing high stress or burn out. You are starting to see gaps in performance and team unity. You might be concerned about lingering issues hindering effective collaboration, decision-making, accountability or engagement.
On the other hand, your team might simply need a check-up and tune-up. Maintaining a high performing team is an on-going, complex task. Even veteran teams need refinements to generate renewed synergy and innovation. Team launches and re-launches are particularly crucial stages to establish a foundation for how you will work and succeed together.
Helping leaders build extraordinary teams is our passion and expertise. We provide two offerings to help accelerate your team's capacity to build cohesion and achieve collective results.
Team Effectiveness Accelerator
Our Team Effectiveness Accelerator is based on the Core Strengths “Results through Relationships” workshop. This proprietary workshop integrates RQ (relationship intelligence) training and assessment with a robust digital platform, taking your team through a journey of discovery and practical skill building. Leveraging the Strengths Deployment Inventory (SDI 2.0), facilitated discussions and experiential learning, your team will achieve these outcomes:
A deep understanding about each team members’ leadership, work and communication styles based on an evidence-based model.
Evaluation of the team’s collective strengths and gaps.
Enhanced culture of trust and psychological safety that serves as a foundation for vibrant collaboration and innovation.
Refining the team’s approach to disagreement/conflicts and decision-making (and learning how interrelated these two components are).
Practical skills for giving constructive feedback and maintaining accountability (two elements that are vital for building/sustaining trust).
Deeper alignment, cohesion and clarity towards business and organizational goals.
This workshop is an “Accelerator” because it is designed to bring an immense amount of insight about individual/team functioning within a short period of time — yet the knowledge is extremely practical and accessible. Team members will walk away with immediate areas for improvement and will be intrinsically interested in continuing to get to know one another more deeply.
Team Enneagram Intensive
The Enneagram model of personality has been used in personal/spiritual development contexts for centuries. More recently, organizational psychologists and other leadership experts have re-purposed its profound and powerful framework for work in leadership and team development.
We utilize both the individual and team reports generated by Integrative Enneagram (iEQ9), a enneagram-based tool designed for organizational development. Leveraging our advanced training in enneagram team dynamics, this highly experiential and interactive workshop will illuminate:
Your team style and and collective values, along with underdeveloped styles.
Balance (or imbalance) among the team's thinking, feeling, and action/body centers.
Collective measure of team strain/resilience in multiple dimensions.
Dynamics between the team and the leader.
Impact on relationships, planning, tasks and goals.
Our Process
Our work will begin with a thorough consultation to help decide what your team needs right now and what will help you most as a team leader.
We can design an intensive workshop to immediately engage your team in the change process, or create a longer-term development program with multiple points for evaluation, discussion and practice.
Both offerings above can be delivered virtually and will be custom-tailored to benefit your team no matter its stage: at team launch or when you're joining an intact team as a new leader.
HOW DO I BEGIN?
Our first step is to help you assess both your individual needs as a leader and the training/facilitation needs of your leadership/staff teams. Please contact us for a complimentary 30-min chat!