Let's face it.The factors that cause teams to fail are rarely related to skill, talent or resources. Team failure is more often linked to lack of focus on the fundamentals of sound team processes. Without attention to team process, all teams and workgroups will naturally fall into some form of dysfunction. Negative effects include:
- Poor decisions
- Missed deadlines
- Negative energy
- Focus on individual results at the expense of team results
- Personality conflicts
- Lack of trust between team members
- Lack of commitment to team's goals
- Loss of accountability
Team Focus™ equips your team with sound team processes and tools that increase your capability for results. These are customized for the specific needs of your group and delivered in a one or two-day work-session. Areas of focus are identified and prioritized through the Team Focus Assessment process. This tool helps the team leader and other key stakeholders evaluate what's working and what's not, in the key fundamental areas of team effectiveness:
- Purpose
- clarity, shared understanding and acceptance of the team's purpose.
- Goals
- clarity, commitment and accountability to the team's goals.
- Roles
- clarity and acceptance of team members' responsibilities.
- Processes & Tools
- visible, consistent and effective methods for team output.
- Relationships
- positive, respectful and trusting relationships.
The assessment is analyzed by the Team Focus consultant and discussed in detail with the team leader. This results in a clearly defined set of goals and measurements for the team work session. The session is then created and specific solutions are targeted for the team. Each team member receives a resource kit which includes the Team Focus Workbook and Reference Guide, tools and templates package, and personalized behavioral survey and profile report.
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"Thank you for the Team Focus session for our team. After they completed this session, they were buzzing with their new knowledge! They seem to now have a new maturity about interacting with each other - increased flexibility skills and an appreciation for differences in behavioral style." |
During the team work session(s), one or more of the following areas will be addressed:
- Focusing on clarity of purpose, goals and roles.
- Team alignment - diagnosing team effectiveness and measuring 'how are we functioning as a team'?
- Developing shared accountability among all team members.
- Solving operational and business problems and making sound decisions inside the team structure.
- Creating procedures and actions to keep the team moving forward and driving toward results.
- Expressing and managing disagreements.
- Confronting and managing personality conflicts.
- Learning tools to use personality disagreements and conflict as a means to move the team forward, not hold it back.
- Team oriented problems vs. task oriented problems - how to recognize and use different approaches for each.
- Behavioral styles - understanding self-behavior preferences and impact on team member relationships. How to identify your team's collective style, manage differences and build team strengths.
You'll leave with a clear action plan for results, with milestones and checkpoints to keep your team focused and on-track. Follow up meetings may be scheduled at appropriate intervals to check the team's progress and maintain a focus on sound team processes. The net result is a quicker path to team results, fewer problems - and a repeatable process to insure your team continues to function at its best. Contact a FOCUS Consultant for more information
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