E. Rogers offers workshops designed to build high performance teams by:
- Assessing the team on critical success factors for high performance teams and individual communication styles to identify strengths and areas of opportunities
- Establishing an understanding and commitment to a common mindset about strategy, goals and tactics
- Instilling an atmosphere of trust, truthfulness and collaboration
- Developing strong problem solving, decision making and conflict management skills
- Creating processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in accomplishing team goals
Team Building Services Example
Phase 1: Setting the Business Agenda
Introduction:
- State of the business
- Action plans need to tie to our overall business agenda
- Goals of business unit
- Objective of today’s session — desired outcomes (alignment, teamwork, breakdown silos, actionable plans in place)
Department goals:
- What are the business unit key accomplishments to date?
- What are your business goals for year?
- What has been accomplished so far this year?
- What are the challenges you face in accomplishing your goals? (internal, external)
- Who do you feel you will need to collaborate with to accomplish your goals? (within business unit & other)
Exercise 1: Small group discussion:
- Where is collaboration essential to accomplishing our goals?
- What are the obstacles to collaboration within the business unit?
- Where do we need to focus our efforts?
Exercise 2: Large group discussion
Phase II: Team Assessment & Action Planning
Overview of best practices of high performance teams
Team assessment
- Research exists on high performing teams
- Use team assessment tool to assess current standing on key behaviors for high performing teams
Exercise 2: Assess current skill level
- Identify the current skill level of business unit
- Force rank the competencies / dimensions of our team
Exercise 3: Organizational action plans
- Each group is assigned one team opportunity (lowest dimension). Each group will develop action plans specific business unit goals:
- Choose three remedies that you think are the most applicable to the team
- How will this help us achieve our goals? (Provide specific steps)
- Provide expected completion dates
- Small group presentations and group discussion to build and finalize action plan