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Team Development Events with a Change focus
Organisation Development / Initiating Change
This type of event helps a team to restructure itself, or perhaps
build its vision and strategy. This may be to address changed business
circumstances, changed personnel, or to make a step-change in performance.
It can be a structured series of discussions, team exercises, visioning
exercises, followed by action planning. It would typically be one
or two days, with follow-up meetings to monitor implementation of
action plans.
Case Studies: Developing a project team
We were asked to assist a product development team in a large corporation
had around 20 members, which had members from the US and the UK.
Prior incarnations of the group had been attempting to resolve a
particular development issue for several months, and the new group
inherited this problem.
Team startup
At a face-to-face event, the individual team members spent valuable
time introducing themselves to the group, with some of their background,
interests, then some of their work history, specialties and perspectives
on current issues. After this exercise, they were able to build
consensus on the team's operating principles - what should be communicated
and when, listening behaviours, and so on.
Developing communication and decision-making processes
They then focused on the work issue they'd been trying to resolve.
The team had a tendency to debate everything to death! Discussions
would continue for ages even around issues that had been agreed!
One that hadn't, however, kept bouncing back and forth, with ideas
and counter-ideas. The leadership members were encouraged to make
more solid proposals: summarising the essence of the disagreements
and pushing for consensus - the best compromise. It turned out that
the real sticking point for the team were their behaviours and approaches,
rather than completely polarised beliefs. They continued to press
for closure, and they managed to complete the decision.
The whole exercise above was completed in around 2 days.
Get in touch if you wish to discuss
these methods further!
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