Consulting and Facilitation for High Performance Team Leadership and Development

Team-based work structures provide the agility and resilience needed for marketplace success. The move from a work environment of independent contributors to a team-based one requires careful analysis, thoughtful planning and development, and conscientious implementation. It also requires a shift in leadership skills. Leading in a team environment requires managers to use different skills than those that may have been successful in a more traditional environment.

Our consultants use the following proven tools, techniques and processes to advise you in developing effective teams, team members and team leadership:

Our consultants understand team behavior and team dynamics. We know the ways that teams increase in maturity and productivity. We know how to provide the appropriate developmental tools and opportunities that ensure accelerated productivity and optimal team and individual well-being.

Leadership on a collaborative team differs from traditional command and control practices. Our consultants advise, mentor and educate leaders and team members on effective team leadership.

Today’s complex work teams cannot achieve the level of performance needed unless everyone knows when and how to step up to leadership and how to share the leadership roles. Our consultants offer guidance on fostering shared leadership practices and training in collaborative leadership models.

Today’s organizations are as dependent as ever on effective management, which means effective, well-prepared managers. Development is a process, not an event. We provide the framework and expertise that allows clients to integrate coaching, mentoring, job rotation options, workflow analysis, and supervisory and manager training into a system that works.

The ability to communicate effectively with another individual and in small groups is critical to the flow of information and the creation of productive working relationships. We offer coaching, mentoring and training in all types of interpersonal communication and feedback skills.

We partner to analyze existing team processes and identify critical success factors, collaboratively define process models, and introduce new options for moving toward critical team objectives. In collaboration with leaders and teams, we recommend new or re-designed processes including a well-managed approach to accomplishing the successful adoption of process change.

Critical, complex, or potentially combustible team meetings need the experienced preparation and facilitation that our consultants bring. We also provide training to build capacity in team leaders and team members to effectively facilitate their regular meetings.