Developing Effective Teams
High-performing teams in a high-performing culture is an imperative in the current marketplace. Our team coaching service is fully customised and tailored to meet the needs of our clients, and typically focuses on goals and expectations, roles, systems and procedures, and interpersonal issues.
Corporate Strategic Planning and Implementation
Using coaching styles and techniques, executive and senior management teams are guided towards the development of appropriate and far-ranging strategies for their organisation and/or division, to achieve such things as growth, market share, competitive advantage and the ability to manage change. Once the strategic plan has been developed, a coach works with the team over a period of time to ensure that the strategic plan is implemented and that the inevitable obstacles and surprises are navigated successfully. We view this as a significant point of differentiation and effectiveness not normally offered by our competitors.
Team Building and Team Development
Research indicates that the three main reasons why teams are unsuccessful relate to:
- cohesiveness
- ineffective problem-solving processes, and
- lack of insight regarding how they operate as a team
Our typical modus operandi would be to ask team members to complete some quick user-friendly questionnaires in order to identify potential development areas. This enable us to develop team building and team development processes around the specific challenges facing each team, in consultation with both the leader and the members of the team. Typically, in the context of a workshop, the team may reach decisions regarding mission, vision, values and norms, and make decisions about the critical processes that will elevate the team’s effectiveness to new heights, including how they collaborate and manage conflict. After the completion of the workshop, the coach works with the team to assist it to implement its decisions, to overcome obstacles and resistance to change, and to help the team effectively self-correct in the future. A means of measuring the team’s effectiveness from time to time is also implemented.
At the end of the process, the team members re-assess the team’s competence in the same areas.