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Developing effective teams
takes time…
Only an ongoing
process of development will produce sustainable change.
Team DiSCovery™ was developed to address the key reasons why most team
building programs don’t achieve any real results in the long term, even if they
appear to have worked in the short term.
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Changing
behavior takes time. You cannot expect people to change their behavior
and continue with those changes from a 2 or 3 day training experience.
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The
focus of team building must be on improving results, not just improving
relationships.
The starting point for any team must be to be clear about why they
exist as a team, what they have to achieve, and what each team member has to do
so that the team can achieve the desired outcomes. This basic starting point is
often not achieved because of ineffective communication… about why the team
exists (their purpose), their goals, and what each team member needs to do to
accomplish this.
Team
DiSCovery™
not only achieves a high level of clarity and agreement
about the team’s purpose,
and goals, it provides insight
into the factors that inhibit effective communication about these critical
issues.
The initial focus
is on the impact that
differences in behavioral style have on communication, decision-making and
goal-orientation and building trust. Through use of the DiSC®
Behavioral Model, team members gain a better understanding of the impact
their behavior is having on other team members, and what needs to be done to
improve communication.
Through an understanding of the DiSC®
Behavioral Model team members also gain a better appreciation of the
contribution that team members who have a different style to themselves are
making to the team. An effective team needs the strengths of different styles,
and the team will not function effectively unless all team members are
contributing their strengths, and other team members respect and value what they
are contributing.
 Trust is another key
factor in determining a team’s success. Trust
provides the foundation for helping the team overcome the remaining four of the
Five Dysfunctions of a Team: Fear of Conflict; Lack of Commitment; Avoidance of Accountability;
and Inattention to Results.
Only by focusing on communicating more openly and
directly about
these issues can the team can move forward to becoming more productive.
The Components of a
High Performance Team
We work with intact teams to strengthen
the skills that build a high-performance team. Our basic program involves
teams working together in 5 half-day sessions with 2 to 4 weeks between each
session. During these sessions teams learn:
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about their own
behavioral style and the styles of others
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how to communicate more
effectively with each other
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about their preferred work
environment
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about the purpose and goals
of the team - their team performance challenge
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about individual and team
strengths
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how their group
culture impacts on their effectiveness at achieving the team performance
challenge
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how to give and receive
feedback to each other to increase performance
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how to accentuate the
positive
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how others react to our
behavioral approaches
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how to build trust with
each other
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how to engage in
constructive conflict to achieve commitment
Customized or advanced programs can include a before and after team
dysfunctions analysis, and additional follow-up sessions to continue to help
teams achieve their team performance challenge by opening communications,
building trust, and engaging in constructive conflict.
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