TEAM BUILDING

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• TEAM BUILDING
• 1. What is it?2. Why do it?3. What are some
  success factors?4. How do you measure benefits?

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What is Team Building?

• Probably most popular Organization Development
  (OD) activity
• Goals are improved and increased effectiveness
  of a team
• Can focus on in-tact team, start-up team, newly
  integrated team, cross-functional team, project
  team etc.
• Often targeting one or more of three areas
• How well we get things done
• How well we work together
• How clear is our structure

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Benefits of Team Building

• Increased effectiveness in
• Sharing of information
• Setting goals priorities
• Building/deepening relationships
• Processes such as decision making,
  communications, setting clear expectations
• Positioning teams to respond rapidly to change
  and to perform continuous improvement Agility
• Helping teams name and navigate Forming,
  Storming, Norming, Performing stages of team
  development
• Added benefits FUN----and developing
  transferable skills!

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Success Factors

• Right people involved
• Concentrated block of uninterrupted time---focus
• Buy-in/commitment of those involved
• Clear desired outcomes
• Match the activity to the desired outcomes
• Debrief activity/Plan follow-up
• Tie activity to high priority issues
  opportunities

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Metrics

• High Performing Teams are characterized by
• Clear Purpose
• Informality
• Participation
• Conflict disagreement resolution pathways
• Clear decision processes
• Open communications
• Clear roles and responsibilities
• Shared leadership
• Style diversity
• Ability to self-assess
• Continuous learning
• Excellent results PLUS a good experience!

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Metrics II

• Ask/Observe
• Are team members following through on learnings?
• Is there a shared language, and/or agreed upon
  processes, that are actually being used?
• Are team members reporting specific results?
• Are new issues or opportunities (ideas) being
  offered up?
• Is there a decrease in reported negatives?
• Is there an increase in achievement of business
  results?