Few teams make the commitment it takes to really build a powerful team. The Two-Day Team Development Program is designed to create true transformation in a team’s whole way of operating, from focus and clarity of purpose to productivity, synergy and commitment.
Most work groups wait too long to address interdepartmental conflicts and stresses, hurting productivity, organizational climate and individual contribution. Work groups typically will not see teamwork as an operational imperative and don’t understand the costs and penalties they are paying everyday without it. This program is designed to get teams back on track fast, and directly addresses the complex problems and interrelationships that hold work groups back from becoming their best.
ATD’s Two Day Team Development Program provides individualized team diagnosis with a targeted and proven teamwork intervention process that generates results now.
Healthy teams who are proactive about developing even better levels of teamwork will also receive the benefits that come from this impactful team building program including:
§ Increased team member commitment
§ Development of more effective group and team processes
§ Understanding and appreciation for the contributions of members
§ Self-Assessment of the impact of one’s personal teamwork behaviors
§ Skills, tools and approaches for clarity, efficiency, and participation
§ Team leadership and follower-ship behaviors for all work environments
§ Breakdown of defensive behaviors that inhibit commitment, collaboration, initiative and participation
§ Creation of an energized working climate that serves as an example for others
Got a tough team? A Stuck Team? Even if you’ve already got a great team, this process is guaranteed to launch your team forward to breakthrough levels of commitment and performance. This is possibly the most beneficial teamwork program available anywhere for intact work groups.
The Two-Day Team Development Program (TDTD) is designed for functional work groups and departments, and upper management teams who have shared responsibility and the need for cooperation and collaboration to achieve their goals and objectives. This program is also ideal for two departments who need to form a more effective and synergistic relationship.
For top management teams, it is often appropriate to also include the next level of direct reports who can help to operationalize and implement new approaches company-wide after a successful two day program.
The TDTD includes a best-practice series of modules, lessons, activities and processes geared for the adult corporate learner, developed from ATD’s most effective teamwork consulting and training over the past 25 years. These program elements are presented in a well designed sequence and expertly presented and facilitated.
These Program Elements Include:
Rationalization for Teamwork; Organizational Impacts
Functional Workgroup Teamwork Survey
Teamwork Ideal State Affinity Process
Teamwork Best Practice Facilitated Discussion and Lecture
Experiential Learning Exercises and Simulations
Teamwork Behavior Peer-Feedback Process
High Energy Shared Experience
Team Action Planning and Improvement Processes
30 day Follow-up
6-Month Teamwork Re-measurement
Rationalization for Teamwork
Why it makes business sense for our work group and what are the hard outcome-benefits to the organization that can be measured when teamwork is improved. Increased teamwork means increased organizational competitiveness and effectiveness.
Functional Workgroup Teamwork Survey
Baseline of the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Team Now- Current inventory of the team’s self perceptions of how they are doing on more than 50 teamwork indicators-all statistically represented for targeted improvement.
Identification of the Ideal State for the Team
Identifying the collective ideal for what the team would like to move towards in terms of self-perception, customer perception, operational norms, and efficiency.
Teamwork Best Practice Facilitated Discussion and Lecture
Ongoing structured and ad hoc discussions emphasizing the characteristics of high performing teams and examination of alternatives for greater effectiveness and team member satisfaction.
Experiential Learning Exercises and Simulations
Most of the available program time is invested in practicing teamwork through intricately designed experiential problem solving, planning, communication and improvement challenges, designed to target team skill development. The team practices new behaviors and skills to prove for themselves the approaches that produce better results for all concerned. These mildly physical fun action-oriented exercises form much of the ‘academic meat’ of the program, with a specific emphasis on parallels between each exercise and workplace behaviors in need of improvement. The fun and experiential learning approach creates a level playing field without penalties where everyone’s contribution and participation is respected.
Teamwork Behavior Peer-Feedback Process
Individuals receive short, brief, to-the-point improvement suggestions they need to promote positive teamwork behavior changes. This tactful and efficient process helps individuals become more aware of personal behaviors they might be exhibiting which they might need to change or improve for the benefit of the team.
High Energy Shared Experience
ATD is a strong believer in the use of several types of high energy shared experience to help break down barriers between individuals and to create a positive emotional shared experience that helps pull team members together. The High Adventure Ropes Course, held at one of the Aquarius Learning Centers is our first choice, however other types of high energy experience can be provided depending upon time and resource constraints of the group; (rock climbing, river running, sport fishing, team sailing, caving—contact ATD for more details).
Team Action Planning and Improvement Processes
Once teamwork behavioral change has been identified and experienced, the team prioritizes the areas where new behaviors will create the biggest return on the teamwork investment. Shared improvement objectives are developed in a ‘process-improvement team’ format with small groups committing to implementation of each high priority objective. Individual processes are also introduced to address improvements in personal relationships between team members. The workgroup returns to the workplace with a teamwork improvement agenda and focused, accountable improvement teams who are tasked with high leverage/high benefit objectives for not only the team, but all of the important relationships in the customer-supplier chain.
30 Day Teamwork Follow Up
A 30-day progress measurement meeting is scheduled with presentations prepared from each process improvement team. During this short meeting, teams report on progress and results in the implementation of their team development efforts.
6 month Teamwork Re-measurement
In six months, the Functional Workgroup Teamwork Survey is re-administered and a comparative report prepared for the client group. Specific benefits and improvements are captured and other potential improvement targets are identified for ongoing improvement.
Teams will discover their natural strengths together and a new alignment with one another that they can get excited about. The team climate is experienced as a fresh start with an optimistic future that embraces collaboration, satisfaction and respect for everyone on the team. The TDTD Program will return many benefits for years to come.
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