Our Team Development Model

Vision ► Knowledge ► Involvement ► Understanding ► Action ► Accountability

 

Achieving extraordinary results involves more than just a combination of the right people, effective leadership, and teamwork.   Team development is an on-going learning and trust-building process.  Our experienced facilitators can lead your through the following steps to achieve the results you desire.  Team New England's Team Development Process is designed with you to meet your specific needs and generally involves an investment of 2-3 days of time over the course of 2-3 months.

 “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can
change the world.  Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

Margaret Mead

Step 1: Vision       All new initiatives begin with asking questions.

Step 2: Knowledge

Next, we need to find out what we already know.  This means getting open and honest feedback from all team members and key stakeholders.   How well are we doing at present?  What specifically do we need to do to ensure future success?  Our confidential online Team Performance Survey is a brief, computer-based survey that will quickly assess your team in six key area’s - Mission, Strategy, Roles, Process, Feedback, and Networking.  An insightful detailed report with data, graphs, and descriptive comments will be presented during your first team workshop to celebrate your strengths and identify key areas for improvement. 

Step 3: Involvement

Highly interactive problem solving challenges get team members working together in ways that generate a sense of cohesion, mutual trust, and a “can-do” attitude.  Teams tasked to complete exciting challenges in a short time frames with a focus on quality and customer service quickly discover the essential elements of a high performance team. "Challenge by choice" trust building activities will increase the level of comfort among team members and raise the level of team risk-taking - something essential to creating innovation in the workplace.  See Team Building above for more details.

Step 4: Understanding

Effective teamwork is based on healthy relationships.  This involves sharpening one’s ability to understand and appreciate differences in how people learn, process information, deal with conflict, and relate to others and the world around them.  Our facilitators bring your team the leading such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Learning Styles Indicator (LSI), and Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument to foster self-discovery and maximize collaboration and synergy among team members.

Step 5: Action

Now that we have built a sense of involvement, trust, and understanding, your team is ready to work together in a much more powerful and effective way to clarify your team vision, mission and core values.  Through dynamic consensus building activities, TNE facilitators will then help you create a set of well-defined objectives and prioritize your next action steps.

Step 6: Accountability

Your team members are ultimately responsible for achieving your goals and objectives.   However, we expect results and will help hold you accountable in follow-through sessions where you will have the chance to present your progress to us and top management.  In this session, we will work to define your next opportunities for growth and action steps based in part on the feedback and progress shown in your online post-Team Performance Survey.