Building High-Performance Teams

teamsSuccessful team members don't do the same thing at the same time.  They do the right thing at the right time.  And while team members work together toward a common goal, individuals still must play their separate parts in the process.  As organizations rely more on teams to innovate, problem solve, produce, and compete at the speed of change, understanding and capitalizing on individual approaches to group processes is the bottom line on creating high-performance teams.

The Building Teams workshop leverages the Team Dimensions Profile, a unique self-directed learning instrument, to help individuals to work from their strengths by identifying their most natural team role – Creator, Advancer, Refiner, Executor, and Flexer.  Discovering their unique role prepares them to see another’s role and how they can best add value to the outcomes.

In this workshop, team-leaders and team-members learn to map the flow of assigning roles, completing tasks, and handing off tasks to other team members through the Z Process.  In this relay process, tasks are passed from Creators to Advancers, from Advancers to Refiners, and from Refiners to Executors. Flexers keep the process moving by filling gaps in the team.

Team-leaders and team-members learn to capitalize on individual strengths for total team performance through the use of a proven way to clarify roles, simplify processes, and maximize individual contributions for total team results.

Some of the long term benefits include:

  • Identifying individual approaches to innovative teamwork
  • Matching individual strengths with team roles
  • Reinforcing and appreciating the contributions of others
  • Reducing team stress and conflict
  • Fostering trust and building mutual support
  • Encouraging  team innovation and problem solving
  • Reducing project-cycle time and increase productivity

Duration:

1 day

Objectives:

This workshop is designed to develop skills needed to:

  • Understand and Leverage strengths
  • Foster atmospheres that encourages creativity, inclusiveness, and fun
  • Establish a team using the proven “Z” methodology
  • Encourage participation
  • Increase ROI
  • Improve outcomes