The Call to Unite
Competent teams operating at their maximum potential are critical to an organization’s profitability and success. However, problems such as an absence of trust, a lack of commitment to team goals and a lack of individual accountability both inside and outside the team may arise. This will assure difficulty in the teams consistently performing at a high level and achieving the desired business results. Some signs of below-par team performance are:
- A lack of openness and honesty within the team.
- Difficult issues not being discussed and opinions being ignored.
- “Groupthink” leading to poor decision-making.
- Poor performance by team members being ignored.
- Use of blame to deflect attention to poor team results.
- Team members going behind the team to cut backroom deals.
TMG’s teambuilding mission is to eliminate these problems and to work with teams to develop productive and supportive behaviors that foster commitment and attention to results. Our structured, experientially-based team development programs provide teams with the process, support and skill-building to resolve these challenges.
Regardless of any team’s performance, its members should periodically step back from their daily tasks and activities to refresh and review how they are working together. We offer team “tune-ups” to ensure that team performance continues to improve.
Organizations have enlisted our help in building and renewing their teams when they need to:
- Build new teams from scratch.
- Move new and existing management teams to higher performance.
- Develop team leaders.
- Build globally dispersed teams that require building distance team management skills.
- Repair poor team functioning.