Developing Team-building skills

TEAM-BUILDING FOR ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT

Achieve High Performance With And Through Teams

In today's business climate, organizations thrive through using teams to develop new products, identify and implement programs, improve quality, increase productivity, and solve problems. This workshop training focuses on the roles of team player and team leader, both essential to creating a high performance team. The emphasis is on how team members can complement, challenge, and inspire one another to new performance heights. Participants may complete a voluntary personality assessment to help them evaluate their own strengths as a team player and as a team leader*.

Participants will learn the nuts and bolts of teams, and how to:

Put skills into practice with team performance and results in mind
Apply their team skills to their interactions with others

Topics include:

What is a team?
How do teams form, storm, norm and perform?
Why professionals seek to improve their team member and team leadership skills
Linking team skills to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality model* - making your TEAM BUILDING SKILLS work for you!**

BEAN&BEAN Consulting, Inc., is headquartered in the Tampa Bay area of Florida, and focuses on supporting organization development needs of companies in the Southeast USA. All our associates have advanced degrees and are experienced public speakers and workshop trainers.

About the workshop leaders

Illustrative One-day Team Building Seminar

A recent program conducted by BEAN&BEAN Consulting for a multi-national technology company consisted of a one day workshop for the team of managers from functional areas within a global division. These managers are located at different sites, but have global responsibilities within their functional areas. To improve team performance through better coordination and collaboration, BEAN&BEAN:

Surveyed the team members to better identify issues associated with the team, such as trust, roles and responsibilities, and communication
Had team members complete the MBTI instrument, so as to identify their Myers-Briggs Personality Type
Conducted a one day seminar in Florida for all team members. The first half focused on understanding how to use insights from MBTI to improve communication and collaboration. The second half consisted of a facilitated discussion of roles and responsibilities, developing a set of priority next steps.
BEAN&BEAN followed up with team members one month and three months after the workshop to reinforce team commitments and to obtain feedback on workshop success. Some comments by workshop participants.

* This seminar includes use of the MBTI personality type indicator, based upon the personality theories of Carl Jung. Participants voluntarily complete the questionnaire prior to the seminar. Individual results are shared with each participant confidentially. Dr. Bean is a qualified MBTI professional.

** Alternative Option - BUILDING YOUR TEAM COMMUNICATION SKILLS
If a team communication focus is desired rather than an individual-interaction focus, the communication skills approach developed by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey (in the book “How We Talk Can Change the Way We Work”, 2001, Harvard Business School Press) can be substituted for the MBTI segments of this seminar.

MBTI, Myers-Briggs, and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Trust in the United States and other countries.