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Team Building

When team members develop the flexibility to change their perspectives about themselves and their colleagues, they're ready to think differently and more creatively about strategy, function and finances. It's therefore very useful for the first stages of team building to be focused on team members learning about themselves and each other.

We provide team building that challenges and changes many long-held beliefs about leadership, communications, relationships and strategy, while participants engage in activities that are thought provoking and fun.

Team building can have a purpose of refreshing a team and getting them refocused. It can usually be done in one-day or two-day increments. Another purpose of team building is to address the need for major changes in the work environment and to rethink goals and plans. Here's one of the ways we would approach the latter longer-term team building effort.

Complete Flexible thinking training with the HBDI Thinking Preference profile to develop the skills to think more flexibly in a variety of work situations.

Complete Values and motivation training where team members discover their core values and develop the skills to apply their values to all aspects of work.

The team is then capable of working together to get agreement on a values-based work environment that they believe would have the greatest likelihood of satisfying their most important values. The challenge will be to implement the appropriate changes.

The team's last and continuing phase is to address issues and implement plans concerning improvements in efficiency, productivity and quality while using the agreed-upon work environment as guidelines for behaviors and relationships. Every time an important proposal for change or an important decision is to be made, one of the questions addressed would be:

"Does the proposed change, decision or implementation plan fully support the agreed-upon work environment as well as the long-term strategy and goals?"

Uniting Cultures of Merging Organizations

Clashing cultures often cause major problems with merging organizations and companies. The legal and financial decisions bring the two organizations together, but unfortunately the people can have great difficulty working across organizational boundaries. There is usually a need for major changes in the work environment starting with the merged leadership. The Team Building program in the section above provides a powerful way for the leadership to model the work environment for the employees of the two organizations.

Developing Values-Based Work Environments

Learn more from Values Case Story

Opening Session of Off-site Strategy or Problem Solving Meeting

When off-site meeting participants develop the flexibility to change their perspectives about themselves and their colleagues, they're ready to think differently and more creatively about the topic of the meeting. They're also likely to communicate and collaborate more effectively. Therefore, it's very useful to have team members take time to learn about themselves and each other during the first stage of the off-site meeting.

Our opening sessions of off-site meetings challenge and change many long-held beliefs about leadership, communications, relationships and strategy, while participants engage in activities that are thought-provoking and fun.

We offer programs that open communications and improve relationships in activities that are adapted to the topic of the meeting. For example, if the topic were developing or modifying strategy, we would do Flexible Thinking Training with emphasis on the Strategic Thinking Model, which is part of the program. This model helps people pay attention to issues that they are not likely to think about and brings those issues into the mainstream of considerations.

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