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How to get business results
from team building activities?
"Business results from team building
activities?" The question I was asked many
times since I started as a business coach
back in 1994. The question I asked many times
to understand how I could better help my client
teams - more than 60 and growing - reach these
great results. And I want to share with
you the answers I found in the corporate
context.
Remember when you were a member of a great
team: the business results were flowing
effortlessly: it felt simple and easy.
All members were aligned around a clear
goal and the delivery of the results to meet
the goal. Mutual trust was consistently
high.
Problems were popping as usual, but did not
stop the momentum. The members had sometimes
clear disagreements about the potential
solutions, but after some discussions everybody
was aligned again around a creative solution.
And the results just continued to flow.
And even though we would prefer to forget it,
remember when you were a member of a mediocre
team: poor results, feeling of difficult
efforts, lack of mutual trust, strong
disagreements, poor decision making process,
weak commitments and even worse: no open
serious team discussion of the problems and
thus no sustained improvements.
Team building activities brought only a
temporary relief, if any. So after some time
and a lot of stress and frustration, the poor
results led invariably to the change of the
leader and/or a reorganization re-shuffling the
membership.
- so what is the root cause of "poor
team" ?
- and how can we concretely buid great
teams to reap the business results and the
personal job satisfaction?
Here are my preferred exploration pathes
through this site for these questions. Based on
your specific expectations, you will certainly
find your better path.
- If you want to see the big picture for
effective team building, start
with "root
issues"
- If you look for solution(s) to specific
issues, start with the team
performance model
And here are all the major sections of this
site:
- discover how unconscious defensive
interactions are one of the major
root
issues of mediocre teams and what brain
sciences tell us about defensive
interactions
- explore how team building contributes to
different corporate initiatives
- review the skills you need to build and
lead great teams
- understand how different techniques
and models do result in constructive
interactions, effective processes and
improved skills
- learn a series of exercises, games
and approaches which have been
designed to deliver the results promosed
by the above techniques and models
- explore how these exercises and games can
be assembled into series of workshops to help a business
team improve its performance
- read stories and
cases used to illustrate the
above issues, concepts,
techniques, exercises ...
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our services
and team: how can we help you ? who are
we ?
- access resources
: our papers, books, articles, quotes and
consultants (including coaches and
trainers)
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