What
is it?
When a small group of individuals has a similar
culture and seeks a mutual benefit, they develop a synergy.
When the group collaborate their skills, are committed to
common performance goals, and hold themselves mutually accountable,
they bring about a unity for success and this becomes a team.
Team Development comes first from understanding what constitutes
a team and the stages of group development. Then by analysing
your teams’ characteristics, strategies are identified
to evolve your group into high performance.
High Performing Teams are extra-ordinary. Their
commitment, intensity and mutual concern for the disciplines
required for quality team performance and each other, are
truly remarkable. High Performance Teams share a mutual concern
for each other’s personal growth, develop interchangeable
skills (hence higher flexibility) and share the leadership.
Noticeably they have more fun and enjoy higher success.
How it fits into your company:
High Performing Organisations rarely exist without
the support of High Performing Teams. Teams can be powerful
vehicles for performance. Executives who truly believe in
behaviour based characteristics like quality, innovation,
cost effectiveness and customer service, will give high priority
to the development of team performance. Those who seek the
full potential of their organisation and its’ members,
will strive for High Performance Teams.
Interestingly, most people, particularly business
executives, are aware of what components make up a strong
team yet, for many reasons, find it difficult to put into
practice or develop strategies to apply their knowledge in
an orderly way. They then miss the opportunity to develop
the full potential of their existing teams, much less seek
out new team prospects. Formulating and developing these changes
in the work place can take time and certainly commitment.
Working with Face the World can give you the support in order
for these changes to be successful.
What we can do for you:
Face the World specialises in the coaching of
teams and can work with either developing your team skills
or with individuals for team leadership. Our company will
help you develop a working understanding of
• What is a team
• What characteristics make team work
• Team Roles – what are they, what’s missing
in your team
• Stages of Group Development
• Developing High Performance Teams
• Balancing Task/ Individual and Team needs
Our programs identify
and develop individuals’ abilities to:
• Improve personal and team
effectiveness
• More open and effective communication
• Align individual and organisational goals and inspire
a shared vision
• Greater commitment by staff to achieve organisational
goals
• Individuals accepting greater personal responsibility
for their own actions and role.
• Take calculated risks and try new things
By providing innovative opportunities to put
theory into practice we will help you devise strategies to
take these back to the work place. Our methods include outdoor
team activities together with proven indoor training methods
to generate a powerful environment where significant personal
and team learning occurs.
• We can provide
one of our designed and proven team building programs or we
can develop a tailor made program for your team. Our flexible
delivery ensures a novel program will suit the needs of your
team.
• Delivery of our programs ranges form one day hands
on courses through to supervised and supported coaching over
a period of 12 months.
• Methods include:
• Workshops and presentations
• Group problem solving activities
• Facilitated group discussion
• High and Low ropes course
• Abseiling and Rock Climbing
• Mountain Bike Riding
• Navigation/search and rescue simulations
• Coaching and mentoring programs
• Personality and Team profiling including:
* Myers/ Briggs
* Five Dysfunctions of a Team
* TMS – Team Management Systems
* DISC
* TICKs |
