effective teams

Building the effectiveness of teams today is often a more complex process with many teams now completely virtual or a mix of in person and virtual. Add to that, environments that are often in rapid and ongoing change.  Performance and wellbeing improve when leaders and team have clear expectations and are able to understand one another, collaborate to achieve goals and have processes in place to manage hurdles. Through team building, staff get to know each other and learn how to solve problems, boost personal and collective creativity and work well towards achieving a common goal.

Building collaborative, supportive teams clear on their objectives and strategies is a key goal of all leaders. Teams can be at any stage of the cycle from forming to performing. At each stage of this team cycle clarity on goals, skills in effective communication and clear leadership all play their part in success.

When is it time to take stock and help build the team?

• Changed strategic goals

• Changed leaders

• Changed team members

• Disparate understanding of goals to be achieved and team members accountabilities

• Team communication challenges

• Building remote team connections

• After high change / stress periods – refocus

workshop framework

• Briefing

• Design and Development

• Facilitation

• Debrief