What are the benefits to your group?

How is your team doing?

Okay, so maybe you weren’t the quarterback on the high school football team, but that doesn't mean you can’t be the quarterback on the team at work!

• Understand how team theory – FORMING, STORMING, NORMING, PERFORMING – can keep your team on track

• Learn the differences between a manager and a team leader.

• Identify the pitfalls teams can get stuck in and how to avoid them.

• Find out how to energize your team with a can-do spirit.

• Gain solid leadership strategies that allow you to deal with conflict and problems as they arise in the team process.

• Leave with a concrete call-to-action plan on how to apply the information and techniques in your team environment.

This seminar is filled with hands-on activities and relevant scenarios which allow the participants to experience actual team development, not just hear lecture about it. They take away a clear understanding of their role as both a team member and a team leader.

What are the benefits to your group?

• They'll understand the value of working together.

• They’ll look forward to working as a team and they’ll accomplish more because of it.

• They’ll take ownership for building the team and maintaining maximum effectiveness.

• They'll recognize when their team is not functioning and know what steps to take to get back on track.

• They'll capitalize on the talents of each individual team member to make the team stronger and to accomplish tasks better.

1. We ensure that everyone on our team is respected, is heard, and has responsibilities.
2. When we have finished a task we seek feedback from the team about what went smoothly and what we would need to do differently if we have to do the same or similar task in the future.
3. When we have a new team member, we take time to get to know that member and familiarize them with how the team functions.
4. We know when our team is in the forming, norming, storming, or performing stage of team development and we have a plan to ensure positive team development.
5. We understand the strengths and needs of individual team members and structure meetings and tasks to meet those needs (as long as doing this doesn’t continually interfere with accomplishing our goals.)
6. We have a plan to develop leadership among all team members.
7. We have assigned specific team management task (such as team leader, recorder, “honest broker”, timekeeper.)
8. We have a plan to deal with conflicts as they arise and before they interfere with the team's functioning.
9. We have methods to regularly evaluate our team meetings.
10. We spend time acknowledging and celebrating our accomplishments.

Understanding Your Score

10 – 22 points. You should be pretty frustrated. Your score indicates one of two things:

1. Your team is getting its job done, but your attempts at working together are so exasperating and exhausting that people are either dropping off the team or are not motivated to continue working together.
   
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2. You are getting the job done because you have one or two team members who are doing all the work. The others spend their time avoiding the team or in conflict with one another.

Your inability to work together is either keeping your from getting the job done or keeping people from enjoying doing the job. You probably spend more time than you should on working.

Your entire team really needs to dedicate time to learning about team development and then dedicate time to applying those principles in your teamwork.

23-37 points. How's your team doing? Well, what day is it? Your score shows that there will be times you think this team is great, everyone is working together and you're getting things done. Then, all of a sudden, people are back to focusing too much on disagreements and the goals end up on the back burner. You don't really understand why this happens or what do to about. You’re spending more time than you think you should on getting people to work together. Actually you need to spend some time on that, but it needs to be focused, structured time that results in preventing problems from arising, not just reacting when they do. You need to learn more about what are the pitfalls teams face that keep them from accomplishing their goals.

38 - 50 points. Congratulations! You are a member of functioning team. And you're probably pretty happy about it. Take a look around you – you should see people you trust, respect and that you know you can count on. Keep dedicating time to team development to stay in the performing stage.

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