Business Need - Build Strong Teams
What makes a team more than just a collection of individuals? Full-on participation. When people give their all to the team, magic happens, and that fuels greater participation and creativity. The opposite is also true: when even one person holds back, the team's dynamics are diminished; not only does the team lose that person's contribution, others begin to notice and censor themselves as well.
Dynamics are the DNA of team effectiveness, and winning teams intentionally monitor and build their dynamics. They know that real teams engage in fierce conversations. They have to be strong enough to look at the brutal truth, to encourage radical ideas, to advocate and argue with passion, and still carry out team decisions with unanimous commitment.
Team Facilitation Skills provides the core skills that all team members need to facilitate winning dynamics. Participants learn how to encourage active, passionate involvement of all team members, while invigorating team effectiveness when face to face.
Our Advanced Team Facilitation Skills builds on this base while helping leaders:
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Gain agreements with team members about executing team decisions.
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Confront members that don't follow through on their commitments to the team.
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Mediate conflict with individual members "offline" to resolve differences and keep the interpersonal dynamics from disrupting the work of the team.
CASE STUDY ON BUILDING STRONG TEAMS
Fortune 500 financial services firm improves quality efforts enterprise-wide.
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