Team Effectiveness

Creating team effectiveness is probably the single most important strategy that we bring to our clients. An effective team effort can overcome virtually any hurdle because when the group acts together, in concert with each other, the overwhelming power of the group can break through barriers previously assumed to be rock-solid.

We offer a series of workshops that are designed to bring out the best in individuals and teams, Our intensive team-building program examines and develops all facets of this complex, interactive concept.

High Performance Team Building

"Creating" a team is no guarantee that it will work. We show you how to select team members, designate an effective leader, set the objectives, and stimulate them to act together as a unit. We also show you how to set mid-project reviews and realistically re-visit the objectives and timeframes.

Creating Powerful Meetings

If a meeting lasts more than 45 minutes, it's too long. We show you how to create powerful, contained meetings that encourage participation, yet discourage redundancy, in-fighting, and remain on track.

Leveraging the Power of Participation

Whether in a meeting, acting as a team member, or as a single individual, we show you how to encourage everyone in your organization to participate and make their voice heard. We show you how to encourage knowledge-sharing within or between teams. The more people who participate in the business of improving the business, the stronger the business will become.

Leadership Development

You never know who the potential leaders are within your staff. You never know just how far your assumed leaders are capable of going. Our Leadership Development workshop helps find the leaders, shows them how to become more effective, and develops a positive behavior attitude to encourage others to become or remain focused.

Management Development

Probably the most important team in your company is the management team. These are the key players in any organization. These people head up major segments of the business and have line and staff responsibilities for a number of employees. We show you how to create an effective, elite team of managers that feels free to discuss mutual and exclusive problems together, and how to overcome the natural tendency for inter-departmental rivalries. We have workshops that are designed to develop this team to its optimum.

Enabling Effective Communications

To enable is to allow. Effective communications consist of speaking in whole sentences, divulging an entire thought, and encouraging responses. We show you how you and all of your employees can learn to communicate effectively through powerful, pro-active communications workshops. Acquiring this important skill has far-reaching applications not only within the business, but in interpersonal relations as well.

Collaborative Leadership

Being an effective leader requires you to reach out and collaborate with your employees, asking for and paying attention to their opinions and suggestions, and giving credit where credit is due. We show you how to solicit suggestions, how to sift through them, how to understand the motivation, how to tactfully reject input, and how to properly credit the source.

Managing Differences

It is a rare thing to have a group so in tune with each other that there are no differences of opinion. Besides being boring, it could also indicate that the assumed harmony is skin deep and that something serious is brewing underneath it all. Differences can be healthy if they are respected and bring about positive discussion. We show you how to spot the hidden differences, how to effectively bring them out in open discussion, and how to turn them into an asset.

Using Conflict Creatively

Understanding the root of a conflict can give you the opportunity to solve the problem causing the conflict. And, as an important by-product, you can get a more harmonious relationship between the parties resulting in a lessening of workplace tension. Moreover, conflict can be the source of great ideas for innovation and growth. Most problems arise from rifts caused by long-standing prejudices. These may involve race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or a host of other basic misunderstandings. We show you how to recognize the cause and how to deal with it creatively.

Individualized Support

The best way to achieve an effective, strong team is to have strong team members. We have designed a workshop that gives customized support to individuals to help them improve those key areas requiring strengthening.

Executive Coaching, Co-coaching for Personal Growth

We coach key executives on how to become better and more effective leaders. We delve into management techniques, interpersonal skills, and individual awareness perceptions. More importantly, we show you and your executive staff how to mentor others in the company. You learn to show them how to grow personally, within the business, and how to understand their career potential.

Coaching for Innovation

Innovation is an important key to a successful business. The stimulation of new ideas and their application to the company's product or method of doing business is what lifts it above its competitors. Our Coaching for Innovation workshop develops specific communication skills among leaders to encourage the exploration of ideas, improve innovative thinking patterns, and support their colleagues' autonomy and inner motivation. The result is refreshed thinking focused on real business challenges.