Team Building

Effective teamwork requires a group of people who are committed to working together for the betterment of the whole and to the achievement of mutual goals. HD’s team-building interventions increase group productivity, strengthen collaboration, and promote open and honest communications and personal and group accountability for results.  We have worked extensively with executive leadership teams, as well as intact, cross-functional, self-managed, and start-up teams. 

We work closely with our clients to assess underlying team issues, define clear objectives and methodologies, create trust and open communication, and evaluate the outcomes of the intervention.

The goals of our team building sessions are to:

• Help team members function as interdependent parts of the same whole rather than independent agents promoting their own work and rewards.

• Build alignment with the mission of the team.

• Developing the team’s emotional competence to handle its issues.

• Develop the team’s ability to turn differences in work style and personality into an asset for team productivity.

• Create structures and vehicles to assure communication is effective and timely.

• Enable the team members to resolve conflicts and establish guidelines for handling future conflicts.

While our team building interventions are based on an assessment of the needs and desired outcomes of our clients, we offer several team building sessions that powerfully enhance a team’s functioning: 

Enhancing Your Team’s Emotional Competence. Emotional incompetence often results from habits deeply learned early in life.  When these habits have been so heavily ingrained, they become our automatic default response to similar situations, often with little awareness of choosing to do so.  What this means for social and emotional learning is that one must first become conscious of the underlying habitual patterns of behaving and then learn new ones.  In a team context, it is often the clashing of habitual patterns of being that impede collaboration and teamwork.  With this in mind, this three-day intensive teambuilding workshop is designed to:

• Profile each team member’s and the team collective emotional competency strengths and weakness and map out their potential conflicts. 

• Increase participants’ awareness of their automatic habits so that they can consciously understand their emotions and behavior and their impact on others.

• Develop a safe environment in which open and honest feedback is exchanged responsibly.

• Teach intervention strategies so team members can improve their individual and collective emotional quotient.

• Enhance and deepen the quality of the team member’s relationships.

• Develop trust and an appreciation of differences.

Understanding and Capitalizing on Your Team’s Dimensions.  While team members must work together to achieve a common objective, each individual brings different strengths and approaches to getting the job done.  It is important for the team to understand the unique needs and contribution of each individual to getting the job done and to performing optimally. Our Team Dimensions program provides teams the opportunity to assess, understand, and capitalize on individual approaches to group processes to create a high performance team. The Team Dimensions Profile, developed and validated by Inscape Publishing, enables each team member to identify his or her most natural team role as well as the flow of assigning roles, completing tasks and handing off tasks to others. The five roles include: Creator, Advancer, Refiner, Executor and Flexer.  The workshop helps teams: consciously use each member’s preferred approach to work. In turn, this helps reduce conflict, clarify roles, develop appreciation for differences, and improve the team’s overall productivity.

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