Team Development

Facilitated team development provides teams with the opportunity and guidance to integrate new leaders into the team, accelerate their development, meet new challenges, accomplish goals and celebrate success.

Lori has worked with newly formed teams, teams with new leaders, and teams experiencing a significant degree of difficulty. The best time to make the investment in the future of your team is when the team is first forming or when it is making the transition to a new leader. Yet many managers are hesitant to make the investment early on because things seem to be going just fine—no problems have developed. However when issues do arise, it can be very disruptive and costly to take time out to deal with the problems.

• Team Effectiveness Assessment and Feedback
• Custom Designed Team Development Approach Tailored to your Team’s Unique Needs
• New Leader Transition
• Team Launch: The Fast Track to Effectiveness
• Team Workshops distributed by Inscape Publishing:
• idx Ready: Collaborative Skills for Teams
• idx Ready: Capitalizing on Team Talents
• idx Ready: Conflict Management in Teams using the DiSC Assesment

Team Effectiveness Assessment and Feedback

• Online team effectiveness survey focused on team identity and role clarity, team accountability, collaboration, trust, team relationships, challenges and behaviors needed to increase team effectiveness
• Used as a diagnostic tool to determine team development needs and approach needed to increase team effectiveness
• Feedback given to team leader and team members
• Used to measure improvement in key areas after team development sessions

Custom Designed Team Development Approach Tailored to your Team’s Unique Needs

We will design an approach to your team’s needs, focused on addressing the most important elements surfaced in your team effectiveness assessment, interviews with the team’s leader and other key stakeholders as needed.

New Leader Transition

• Increases speed of integration for new leaders
• Gives new leaders a chance to hear about challenges and opportunities within their new team so they can get up to speed quickly
• Accelerates open communication and bridge building between new leader and new team members
• Enables employees to get to know their new leader and hear about team member’s expectations and goals

Team Launch: The Fast Track to Effectiveness

• A customized system of team development sessions designed to accelerate the start-up process within your team
• The agenda is developed based on the needs of the team and vision of the leader

Team Retreat for a Specific Change Initiative

• We would work with you to define your expected outcomes and then co-create an approach to launch your team(s) effectively
• Whether you have one team or six teams, it’s important to get started with clarity, focus and begin bringing the team(s) together in an energetic and positive environment
• The approach will be completely customized to your needs
• This approach helps to fuel a focused change initiative, launching important work quickly

In Collaborative Skills for Teams, participants will:

• Learn the four different roles within teams, their preferred roles and the diversity of priorities and preferences of each team role
• Discover the activities and priorities associated with each of the four team project stages
• Understand the challenges and communication breakdowns they may face when working with others who have different priorities, roles, and talents
• Learn to maximize productivity of team meetings by aligning expectations and understanding how to manage their own tendencies
• Explore how team roles interact in meetings and learn effective strategies to be more effective about managing differences
• Understand their own time-management preferences based on their team roles
• Create personal action plans for strategies to consider when working and communicating with each of the four roles

Workshop Length: 3.5 - 4.5 hours

Target Audience: Best suited for in-tact work teams, project teams or teams who work in the same value chain

To view a sample facilitator’s guide, PowerPoint presentation and video, go to idXready™ Collaborative Skills for Teams http://www.idxlearning.com/marketing/idxready/F124/

For more information, see the idXready: Collaborative Skills for Teams brochure. Download PDF

This team session can be purchased to use in-house or facilitated by Capstone Coaching & Consulting, Inc. It is distributed by Inscape Publishing.

In Capitalizing on Team Talents, participants will:

• Learn the four different roles within teams and the diversity of inherent talents each role brings to the team
• Understand their natural team roles
• Discover activities that don’t fall within their preferred role, and recognize that these activities may cause stress
• Identify how to efficiently tap into their underutilized natural strengths in daily activities
• Recognize how to use their innate strengths to contribute maximally to a team
• Uncover the strengths and limitations of their team, based on the distribution of team talents within
• Create action plans to reduce individual and team stress and increase team productivity by tapping into the natural talents of the individuals on their team

Workshop Length: 3 - 4 hours

Target Audience: Best suited for in-tact work teams, project teams or teams who work in the same value chain

To view a sample facilitator’s guide, PowerPoint presentation and video, go to idXready™ Capitalizing on Team Talents http://www.idxlearning.com/marketing/idxready/F124/

For more information, see the idXready: Capitalizing on Team Talents brochure. Download PDF

This team session can be purchased to use in-house or facilitated by Capstone Coaching & Consulting, Inc. It is distributed by Inscape Publishing.

In Conflict Management: A DiSC-Based Approach, participants will:

• Discover their natural approaches to conflict and understand how others' approaches differ from their own
• Learn how to find common goals among the parties in a conflict
• Understand the need to acknowledge all sides of the issue, and learn how to share their perspectives in a productive way
• Realize the importance of focusing on solutions rather than problems
• Learn strategies for generating options that resolve conflicts
• Discover the need for a balanced approach in bring resolution to conflicts

Workshop Length: 3.5 - 4.5 hours

Target Audience: Those who direct the work of others, In-tact work teams, project teams or teams who work in the same value chain

To view a sample facilitator’s guide, PowerPoint presentation and video, go to idXready Conflict Management: A DiSC-Based Approach http://www.idxlearning.com/marketing/idxready/F122/

For more information, see the Idxready Conflict Management: A DiSC - Based Approach brochure. Download PDF

This team session can be purchased to use in-house or facilitated by Capstone Coaching & Consulting, Inc. It is distributed by Inscape Publishing.

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Please e-mail or call us at 402-253-8117.

We will be happy to answer your questions and to schedule a meeting to discuss how we can address your company’s specific team development needs.