Cw Team Boarding Your Talent

Post on 22-Apr-2015

146 views 0 download

description

Learn more about team boarding and how it helps to on board your teams for success

Transcript of Cw Team Boarding Your Talent

TeamBoarding Your Talent

Building better leaders and sustainable cultures of engagement, accountability, and results

Agenda

• The Case for Teams

• How to Spot the Team Player

• Team Boarding for Success—TQ™

• Take-aways

2

The High Functioning Team

A small number of people with complementary

skills who are committed to a commonpurpose, performance goals, and approachand for which they hold themselves

mutuallyaccountable.

Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith, The Wisdom of Teams

3

The Case for a Focus on Teams

• The Manufacturing Performance Institute's 2005 Census of Managers, states that 70% of organizations use teams to "accomplish their business goals.”

• A recent CCL client survey found that 20% of companies are using team coaching or development for their senior teams, and 46% of participants recommend that senior teams receive team coaching to create a culture change.

• Results include:• Products get to market faster• Customers get better service• Employees are more satisfied• Quality of product and service increase• Productivity costs decrease• Students learn better• Creativity and innovation are enhanced

4

The Case for a Focus on Teams

• We believe that breakthrough ideas often result from the work of teams seeking to creatively solve real client challenges. Boston Consulting Group

• There is an emphasis on team achievements and pride in individual accomplishments that contribute to our overall success. Google

• When employees pull their own weight in a unified and synchronized way then the results will be better than uncoordinated heroic efforts of a few. SAS

• Teamwork, with a focus on service, provides our clients with leading technology and proven results. Our employees are experts at what they do, and form experienced teams with the talent and passion to serve our customers. ???

5

The Team Player—What to look for

• A team player is someone who puts aside his personal goals and cooperates with others, strives for a common goal.

• Key Characteristics:• Effective Communicator & Good Listener• Problem Solver• Collaborator & Partner• Relationship Builder• Results-driven• Skilled at: developing trust, meeting

facilitation, resolving conflict

6

Clearwater Team Development TQ™

• TQ™ is the ability to understand that there is “intelligence” that lives at a systemic level in the uniqueness of a team.

• It involves learning how to collaborate, communicate, problem solve, and hold each other accountable to reach the goals.

7

Components of TQ™ Success

Team Relationships and the Team Profile

• Understanding Self and Others• What is DiSC?

• A tool to understand complexity of behaviors• Applies insights to self, others and situations• Explains the why and how of what we say and

do• Developed in 1924 by PhD Dr. William Marsten,

from Harvard Univ.• Has been for over 30 years, in 25 different

languages by 40 million

9

Individual Profiles and the Team Profile--Dimensions of DiSC

2.

1.

Individual Profiles and the Team Profile

Direct

Results oriented

Competitive

Influence

Results oriented

Enthusiastic

Conscientious

Accuracy

Measured

Supportive

Impact on others

Friendly

The TQ™ Challenge

• How can your teams improve communication, build stronger relationships, yield higher levels of productivity and improve business results? 

• What will your teams be known for?

• How will your teams sustain their work?

12

Clearwater Consulting Group

• Women-owned consulting firm founded in 2005, headquartered in Atlanta, GA

• Company focus is senior team development for greater organizational clarity

• Reach us at www.clearwater-consulting.com• Phone us at 404-842-0987

13