Do you have the Building Blocks to harness the Team Survival Tactics and Work Better Together?
We know REAL work gets done by teams of PEOPLE. These teams are either a liability to business PERFORMANCE, or a secret weapon to competitive business PROFIT – Aligned 4 Profit!
300% improvement in teamwork – When we talk about Aligning teams for Profit, we can prove it!See a case study
The Working Better Together Difference
Most team development consultants assert that they can enhance your team’s performance. How many can demonstrate sustainability of that claim?
Without exception the teams we work with state how they have the Think.Act.TalkTM skills to close the gulf of Un-REAL Communication, Mediocrity, Failed Accountability, Lack of Intimacy and Trust. As well, they are loud about how our Sustainable Learning Tool (SLT)keeps them engaged and accountable to sustain working better together. When past-participants have questions, we are there to answer, as these teams have access to any of our coaches for on-going guidance and support.
We stay the course.
Working Better Together strongly
Finally aligned with A4P’s training principle of ‘not an event’ we ensure the stick-to-itive-ness through checking back with the team, eliminating any regression, and adding another, bigger block to stretch team development.
We teach the skills of working better together to create immensely profitable performance, and equip teams with the building blocks to continue their team growth journey.
Wonder If the Shoe Fits?
Consider This Story
Can you hear and see yourself in Wesley’s story?
Wesley, the CIO of a video production company, is challenged to get his team focused on the ‘right’ stuff. While his team works very hard, they seem to lack the alignment and direction that will catapult them into the levels of success that they should and can aspire to reach. They seem to be hindered by their inability to create intimate relationships with their peer members. While not entirely sure of all the nuances that are impacting their effectiveness, Wesley suspects that it is due to their need to ACT with accountability and to TALK to one another in REAL ways - they just need the secret formula for team alignment.
He wonders how he can engage them to THINK in radical ways, while, at the same time, making emphatic decisions by asking profound business questions. Sure that if he could solve some of these issues they’d be able to run profitable meetings that were timely and targeted with the ability to cascade a strong ‘One Voice’ message to their teams. He wants them to be extraordinary and produce profitable results, harnessing Team Survival Tactics.
Faced with these challenges, Wesley wonders if his team feels the same. He is curious how his perceptions compare to those of his team and would like to measure them, and if needed, take action.
Overall, he wants them to be all that they can be, he seeks to provide them with the foundational building blocks that will cause them to thrive, deliver on their goals and become profitable in every way.
Building Blocks to Team Alignment
1. Working Better Together Team Survey.
2. 2-Day Team Workshop – The foundational Building Blocks for Working Better Together
3. Sustainable Learning Tool
4. Team Workshop - Inspecting the robustness of the created foundation, and Building the Bigger Blocks for next-level team Performance
(While most consultants will come in, deliver and depart, our passion for helping teams work better together, drives us to take the extra step. We become intimate with your team, communicate with you through our online tool and commit to a future re-visit with your team to ensure the skills have become natural and REAL in the team’s daily interactions. (included in your investment)
“A superior team is 30% more productive than an average team.” Spence
The 4 Core Principles that Block or Build Working Better Together
Making the LEAP
1. Always-done-it-this-Way
• Stuck in the old ways
• Fight to stay in your comfort zone
• The always pessimistic view
• Rely on best-practices
• Overly cautious
1. Radical well-tested Ideas
• Open to new ways
• Ready to move outside your comfort zone
• The incorporation of a balanced view
• Having the courage to break-the-rules
• Willing to tread where no-one has gone
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking
we used when we created them.”
- Albert Einstein
• Wear a mask and play the game
• Try to minimize conflict
• Address only the surface issues
• Same-thinking is a good thing
• Tell the truth even when it is unpopular
• Harness lively debate
• Dig down deep
• Nourishing the collision of thoughts is a great thing
“You absolutely cannot make a series of good decisions without first confronting the brutal facts.”
- Jim Collins
• Over-reliance on facts and logic
• Focus only on the numbers
• Hear what people think
• Welcome the value of emotion
• Passion for the people and the numbers
• Hear what people feel
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.”
- Albert Einstein
• Over-reliance on facts and logic
• Play all sides
• Talk about what should happen
• Emphatic about decisions
• Pick a side
• Talk about how and when it will be done
“When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think
I’ll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends.
From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.”
- General Colin Powell
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