Team Building

Developing Your Team

 

So you and your collegues are tired of experiencing the sypmptoms of poor teamwork. You understand or want to understand the stages of team development and the team building blocks (see below) used in the 4 stages of team building, in order to enable your team to become a mature team.

 In this section, you will find a summary of process that will ensure project success, should you choose to use us as your team building training partner.

In the first instance it is important to us that you (as a potential client) understand what constitutes an effective team.

Effective teams seem to exhibit a set of common characteristics, characteristics which are associated with a mature team and effective team working. These characteristics can be referred to as the building blocks, to be used in a team building. These building blocks (that underpin our approach to team development) are as follows:

Characteristics of effective teams

It is also important to identify the objectives that are important to the development of your team. We use a comprehensive Building Blocks Questionnaire team assessment instrument first, to determine development objectives, to guide us in selecting the most relevant team building activities and supporting materials for your team.

Your teams will be encouraged to experiment with the activities and to relate the learning to their work. Your team will develop back at work plans to apply the learning. (In learning by experience the value of an activity becomes apparent when it is tried fully, then tested back at work.)

Techniques, structured experiences, diagnostic questionnaires and a back at work review process are included in our team development programs. As far as is possible activities are linked with the explained theory, which in turn is linked back to the real workplace situations your team members have been drawn from. 

The diagnostic instruments (e.g. 'Our team and its stage of development') we use enables teams to look at team strengths and weaknesses. Using these instruments will start the process of diagnosing your teamwork problems and of understanding more fully the concepts involved, using a simple development framework:

Simple team building development framework