Nine Dimensions of Team Development
August 6, 2018
Team Development
To help groups of individuals become high performing teams we draw on a range of approaches and many years’ experience helping groups and teams improve their performance.
We draw on a range of approaches and many years’ experience helping groups and teams improve their performance.
Our approach is to work with members of a team to:
- Clarify pictures of what success looks like
- Develop realistic and achievable plans
- Create ways of working together that allow them to be safe and excel
- Resolve difficulties between individuals in the group
- Find ways to clarify outcomes
- Achieve outstanding results
There is an order in which we tend to go about things when it comes to improving the functioning of a team.
- We assess the current state of the team on a number of hard and soft variables
- We work at exploring, opening up and building the relationships among the individuals within it
- We open up the information flow and patterns of interaction so the group can make better and well-informed decisions when it is working
- We clarify the team’s ambitions and intentions
- We work intensively with them to develop agreed ground rules of play
- We help them identify the blockages and conundrums that need resolving
- We help the group develop strategy to become a high performing team, and
- Design with them the specific action steps to achieve this, and finally
- We build in mechanisms for them to sustain the gains they have achieved
