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Effective Team Development
The Systems Thinking Approach™
Delivered by
Many Centre Partners
Workshop Purposes:
Effective Team Development
- To undergo general periodic check ups on health, satisfaction, and effectiveness of your team
- To look at an image of how an effective team generally functions
- To diagnose how your are presently functioning as a team; your strengths, weaknesses, barriers, and current practices
- To plan corrective actions to solve problems you identified and have energy to resolve
- To integrate and improve our economic objectives
- To integrate and improve our human objectives
- To increase productivity through concerned/committed team efforts
- To identify and solve high priority organizational and team problems and opportunities
- To improve peer-subordinate-supervisor relationships and more effective/efficient communications; less time and effort needed to expand on interpersonal grapevine issues
- To increase participative involvement and consulting for decision-making; freedom of action
- To encourage more open and free flowing communications
- To increase interpersonal, individual and group membership skills
- To continue to create and improve our work environment, which will be more conducive to a healthy organization and, in a practical way, increased individual and group motivation
- To eliminate or reduce substantially any inter-group conflicts identified
- To clarify mission, vision, values, objectives, goals
- To improve customer service, responsiveness, quality of services
- To more effectively utilize and develop team members
Effective Team Development
Understand the Systems Thinking Approach™ to effective team development
Know a variety of system's designs to accomplish effective team development, resulting in a high performance team
Understand and have your skills increased in helping teams become more effective and satisfied
Work with a wide range of teams to assist improving their effectiveness and satisfaction, including executive teams, project teams, and department teams
Successfully resolve normal conflict issues within teams
Have the skills to take teams through the Rollercoaster of Change™ to high performance
Assist teams with short-term effectiveness and longer-term strategic issues successfully
Have the skills to assist team members in enhancing their interpersonal and team skills, understanding and performance
One-Day Workshop Agenda:*
Effective Team Development
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| 1. | Join Up | ||
| Welcome Logistics; Purposes; Agenda Introductions, Wants (quickly) Norms, To Do List |
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| 2. | Educational Component(s) | ||
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| 3. | Future Vision: Mission, Values, Goals, etc. | ||
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| 4. | Feedback of Data (Todays performanceStrengths, Weaknesses) |
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| Overview, model Clarity, understanding of data first Discussion (agree, disagree) Prioritize the important issues to problem solve |
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| 5. | Action Planning, Problem Solving the Data |
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| As many of the important issues as possible Other issues on the To Do List as to how |
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| 6. | Summary, Closure |
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| Next steps, To Do List, communications Future follow-up meetings planned Process the meeting |
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* We have a variety of ways to do team building in small (from 3-4 hour time blocks) to
larger (2½ days) increments. Please contact us for more information. |
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Two and Half-Days Workshop Agenda:
Effective Team Development
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| 5:00 pm | Arrival | |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner | |
| 7:30 pm | 1. | Introductions, norms |
| 2. | Objectives | |
| 3. | Ice Breaker | |
| 4. | Stage Setting (Context) | |
| 5. | Communications Styles | |
| 6. | Process Day | |
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| Day 1 | 1. | Mission Review and Data Feedback Understand only Discuss, agree Action |
| 2. | Current State Data Feedback Understand only Discuss, agree Prioritize issues to cover |
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| 3. | Process Day | |
| 4. | Dinner | |
| Day 2 | 1 | Review questions from Day 1 |
| 2. | Problem solving the highest priority issues Task Interpersonal process Review To Do List |
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| 3. | Sum up, follow up, next steps, closure | |
Workshop Participant Notebook
Collaborating Across Functions
Table of Contents
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| Phase I—Data Gathering and Data Analysis/Synthesis | |
| Phase II—Offsite Meeting to: | |
| Define Future Vision | |
| Define Key Success Measures | |
| Develop Action Plan | |
| Phase III—Implementation of Action Plan | |
| Phase IV—Monitoring and Follow Up | |
Workshop Participant Testimonials
Effective Team Development
I feel much more confident in my team building facilitation as a result of this.
My conflict resolution skills are now vastly improved as I have a framework within which to do this.
The Rollercoaster of Change was wonderful and will be so useful in every team building I do.
The different team development designs that were shared give me a great toolbox for my work.
The Systems Thinking Approach™ to team development is unique, yet simple and comprehensive in nature–very powerful!
The models and visuals in this workshop make it easy and simple to remember what I am doing in team development and where I am going.
The instructors were terrific–extremely knowledgeable, skilled and full of stories to help me grasp the concepts easily.
The importance of feedback in team effectiveness is so clear now–along with some simple tools to use to enhance it in a group.
I have a union-management negotiations coming up. I can actually use this in there as a neutral third party. Thanks!
Thanks for the new change tools. It gave me ways to shorten the resistance to change in an upcoming project.
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