Team Building

There are many different kinds of teams. Most often we deal with work teams; however, there are family, church, athletic, volunteer organization and other types of "teams" as well.  All will benefit from these seminars. We are skilled at tailoring programs to meet our client's specific needs.
 

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	Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight D Eisenhower

BUILDING TEAMS THAT WORK! Do your teams work? They'd better. America has gone mad for teams. They are proliferating in industry, government, small business and not-for-profits and they promise to be a part of the landscape for a long time to come. But despite their popularity, most organizations don't know how to make teams successful. And it's costing them money.

This multi-day seminar provides you with everything you need to know to make your teams work. Using the team building classic, Climbing from the Fifth Station you’ll learn how to make teams successful from design to delivery. The seminar challenges cherished beliefs about team building while showing you how to generate spectacular productivity gains. Learn how Station Teams deliver 200% to 400% more solutions than traditional teams at a fraction of the cost. Discover the popular management tool that is responsible for up to 96% of your lost creativity. Find out how anyone on the team can boost productivity by 8% to 20% with no additional training and at no additional cost. Best of all, the techniques are intuitive, common sense and ready for implementation now.

Participants in this program also benefit from the feedback provided by two of the best organizational development tools available today—CPP’s MBTI and Apter International’s AMSP. Together these tools will show you how your strengths influence the team and how you can flexibly respond to a rapidly changing environment in ways that get the results you are after.

The following programs can be offered individually or in various combinations based on client needs.
 

A RULE AND THREE PRINCIPLES: A quick course in leadership. The four items discussed will transform an organization when applied. This hour-long seminar is ideally suited for product launches, lunchtime learning classes, extended staff meetings or any situation in which you want to challenge the thinking of your team.
 

CHAOS: This program reveals individual and team behavior that can determine success or failure. Using validated and highly reliable instruments, the secret order in the apparent chaos of both individuals and the team organization will be exposed. With this information, team makers, leaders and members can easily implement productive new strategies. This seminar is offered in both full and half-day programs. Some pre-work is required.
 

CONFIDENCE: The wellspring of confidence is belief. When you believe in something, you accept and have conviction about the truth, actuality, or validity of that thing. This program explores the full dimensions of confidence and helps team makers, leaders and members recognize the markers of confidence and the indicators of helplessness. Importantly it demonstrates how productivity gains of 30% can be achieved through simple, no cost strategies.  A minimum of two hours.
 

STATI0N TEAMS: Too often teams aren't assembled. They just happen. A project comes along and a team is assigned to work it. The group gathers and makes an attempt to figure out a solution, but trouble starts brewing almost at once. Only some of the people do any work. Some people don't get along. Meetings are frequent and mind numbing. No one is quite sure what the assignment actually is. We call well-assembled teams Station Teams. This program deals with the nuts and bolts of actually assembling a team that works. A minimum of two hours.
 

MOTIVATION: What is it that moves someone to action from a position of comfortable stasis? The answer is motivation. Motivation is the process of stimulating you to action. It takes a need, desire or some other impulse and incites a response. Motivation is the high-octane fuel of success and, as such, it's vital that individuals and teams capitalize on its power. This program will reveal the rarely discussed formula for motivation.  It will show you to exploit a simple technique that has, alone, produced 300% productivity gains. A minimum of two hours.
 

DECISION MAKING: In order to make a decision we first gather information and then make judgments about that information. This is true whether we are making personal or team decisions. But team decision-making is definitely more complex. For one thing, seven people on a team will initially bring seven different points of view as well as senses of priority, commitment and urgency. These and other complexities require that teams pay careful attention to the three-part structure of a team decision. You see, the decision is really just the burger on the bun. It's literally sandwiched between two equally important elements in the process of reaching a final decision. This program shows you how to manage the process from beginning to end. It gives you the tools to avoid "avalanching," and offers a matrix to ensure you get all the pertinent data. Three to four hours.

Building Teams That Work!