Team Development
Team Development
Ask yourself: How many teams do you know that are...
- Just ‘ticking along’ or ‘making do’?
- ‘Struggling’ or ‘stuck’ or on the edge of ‘derailment’?
- Performing well but needing time out to review
- Newly merged or formed and undergoing change?
Whilst the team you’re thinking of may be reasonably successful, it might not be as effective and productive as it could be i.e. Not fulfilling its potential. Teams generally don’t just ‘happen’ they need investment from the leader, themselves and other resources to optimise their performance. Clear purpose and goals, clarity around roles and responsibilities, agreed processes and strong relationships are all key foundations to an effective team.
Most importantly of all though, the heart of team performance is where team members trust, are open, can be vulnerable and have the courage to share ideas and take risks. They need to understand and apply their own and combined emotional intelligence.
Solutions
Often, in order to reach this ideal place, a team needs time out with an external facilitator to help them achieve their goals.
Alison has always had an uncanny knack of picking up the dynamics of a team and its relationships. This natural strength has been honed through years of experience with leaders and teams. She provides an innovative, pragmatic and results focussed solution in a safe environment to enable teams to become high performing. She works with a wide range of teams including: intact teams, project teams, new teams, merging teams, collaborating teams and changing teams.
Alison’s solutions accelerate team’s performance through time out to reflect, discuss and review progress and performance and “iron out’ issues which are more often than not around relationships. Alison’s expertise is in getting to the heart of the matter quickly and helps teams to move on and forward in a much stronger place. She is not afraid to have the conversation with you about your behaviour and impact, irrespective of your role in the team and the business.
Benefits
- Teams that understand their purpose and goals
- Clearer understanding of roles and responsibilities, boundaries and hand offs
- Agreed ways to communicate, knowledge share, problem solve and make decisions
- Enhanced levels of trust and openness across team members and with the leader
- Raised awareness of own behaviours and impact on others
- Improved relationships
- An understanding of each other’s strengths and how each other ‘ticks’
- Appreciation that a high performing team is made up of diversity that is valued by everyone
- Improved individual and team EQ (emotional intelligence
Alison’s Team Development Solutions:
- Focus on growing the team over time with the goal for them to ultimately self manage
- Are tailor made and include up front work with the team and leader to diagnose the objectives,
- Involve a mixture of methodology including workshops, experiential activities, psychometric profiles, coaching and assignments.
- Are always engaging, enjoyable, practical, business focused, memorable and most important of all they change the way things are done back in the workplace.
- Vary in length from a two day residential event, a two hour workshop over lunch, or as part of your company conference.
"I have had a partnership with Alison for the past 4 years and she is my “go to” trusted advisor for the engagement and development of my team at Airways. Over recent years of change and restructure, she has helped us to sustain our effectiveness and be the best we can be as a critical business team. Alison has designed and hosted our annual team conference as well as facilitated smaller team workshops and one to one coaching sessions. Alison is an expert in teams and MBTI which we now use as a team language to sustain our performance. I value my trusted relationship with Alison and would highly recommend Alison working with you and your teams."
Kim Nichols,Head of Safety
Airways
"I am pleased to personally recommend Alison Hood for the excellent services she provides in leadership and team development. Alison has worked with our Leadership Team over the past three years and has helped us develop insight into our team dynamics to achieve a more collaborative style of management."
Guy Keogh,Agri Divisional GM
Skellerup Industries Ltd
