Team Building

"You took us from being just a group of individuals to a vivacious team with open communications."
--Board Member, Roosevelt University

Building Star Teams
Experiential Team Building
Developing Global Team Leaders
Conflict Management

Building Star Teams

Teams have emerged as a tool to capture changing workforce knowledge, while productively increasing the bottom line. However, knowing when and how to best use teams is a complex art and skill. Based on your needs, Janelle works with you to choose the right keynote, workshop, retreat or curriculum. Following is a sampling of topics:

Creating Teams

Why and when to use teams as a business strategy
Create employee buy-in
Types of Information Age teams
Putting together a new team -- getting to know each other
What are the typical developmental stages of a team?
What roles help the team handle their own process more effectively?
How to use sponsors to assure influential support

Challenges

Expertly guide your team through change
How to increase creativity and constructiveness in problem solving
Use problem solving and conflict management to build a team
Expand a team's risk-taking ability
How to handle emotionally charged team meetings
How to deal with or remove a disruptive team member
Team re-building

Cooperation

Increase team collaboration
Create interdepartmental cooperation
Competition vs. cooperation
Working together to serve the customer better
Motivating everyone to participate
Team assessment for continual improvement in cooperation
Understanding Synergy Builders and learning to avoid Synergy Busters

Communications

How to run great meetings that get results and don't waste time, balancing both process and relationships
Establish guidelines to promote effective team communication
Beyond words: how to listen for the real meaning
Create clear team communications
How to ask questions that teach people to think, get the information you need and get your desired results
Handle emotional communications with more finesse
Informal communications, spontaneous meetings and other tools to increase team communications
Getting all the personalities on the team to communicate better and collaborate

Power/Empowerment

How to decide who should have the power and make the decisions: answering empowerment questions
Assessing the rights and responsibilities of an individual within the team
Self-directed teams
The In vs. the Out group

Leadership

Team leadership: a new skill
What type of leadership is most appropriate for which type of team?
Finding out what motivates people
How to get commitment to the goal and vision
How to build trust in a team
Building team spirit
Leading vs. following
Some cautions on team building

Experiential Team Building

One of the quickest and most exhilarating ways to bring a team together is to guide team members through a facilitated experiential team building program. Janelle works to develop teams using a variety of interactive programs. Teams experience faster progress when the group is challenged with physical problems in a fun and supportive learning environment.

Skill Building Areas

Janelle will guide your group through experiences that will build camaraderie, support, cooperation, and comfort with risk-taking. Generally, the areas we focus on are:

Trust
Communications
Risk-Taking
Creativity
Cooperation
Group Problem Solving

Customizing

Included in our fee is customizing of the program to the goals for your team. Janelle interviews management and a sampling of 3 or 4 of your participants in order to learn about your goals and challenges.

This experience will not only bring your group together, but it will create a continuing learning experience that the participants will reflect on for a lifetime. We hope to have the opportunity to help create that experience for you and your group.

"Very good tie to business activities -- relates to job."

--Manager, Baxter Healthcare Corporation

"The total Teams Course experience: fun, fun, fun."

--Manager, Abbott Laboratories

Developing Global Team Leaders

Global operations can be a delight or an absolute pain. It all depends on your ability to capitalize on the diverse skills of the people you work with.

You can have 12 people of 12 different nationalities reporting to you from 12 different locations around the world, with 12 different sets of cultural and regional problems.
Or -- you can be the leader of a global team of 12 people who work together regardless of distance and differences, and who solve their own problems as well as yours.

The ability to bring people from many different cultures together, and motivate them to become a team, is an indispensable competency for anyone with international responsibility.

Let Dynamic Performance Institute, LLC partnering with International Management Consulting Associates help you develop Global Team Leaders who will take your international operations to new levels.

Conflict Management

Managing conflict is often one of the toughest challenges teams face. Have you ever wondered:

Is it wrong to use an aggressive conflict style?
Am I too passive in handling conflict?
Am I causing myself stress-related health problems due to the way I handle conflict?
What's the best way to handle this disagreement?

Research shows that the way most people handle conflict can actually lead to serious illness. Learn how to decide the best way to handle each conflict, in order to reduce your stress and promote a win-win resolution.

This interactive workshop identifies:

Five conflict management styles and when to use each.
Healthy ways to handle anger.
Specific resolution techniques and processes to apply in many different situations.

Customized role plays specific to your industry can be added for "real world" practice in applying various conflict management styles and techniques.

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