Give your team the leg up it needs to achieve great things.
Getting a team to produce results takes more than a team charter, a RACI matrix and/or project management tools. Teams are made of people with varying priorities, points of view, communication styles and personalities.
To work together, all the people on your team need to learn how to align to each other, negotiate conflicts, engage in constructive conversations and share ownership in producing results.
What kind of team support do you need?
Mobilization
For teams that are launching and want to start things off right. Set the vision and own the purpose. Learn communication skills that build trust, resolve conflict and surface unspoken issues.
Repair
For teams showing signs of trouble (over-budget, over-schedule, out of control scope, infighting). Includes diagnosis and custom program creation to help leaders and members break through dysfunction and improve morale.
Facilitation
Targeted support for critical conversations that aren’t happening or aren’t happening well.
Teamwork in Science and Tech
Building innovative life science and tech products has become increasingly complex. Teams are now far more diverse, dispersed and technical. Members don’t speak the same language, literally and figuratively.
Cross-functional teams are on the rise and notoriously challenging to manage and coordinate. Members come to the table with competing priorities. They typically don’t have enough experience working together to come to the project with a shared understanding or mutual trust.
For those on a team where people are working well together it can be a terrific experience. For others, it can be intensely stressful and bring out the worst in its members. The effects of a poorly functioning team can lead to lost time, wasted resources, unproductive conflict and depleted morale.
What are you struggling with?
“We’re stuck in silos and don’t work together.”
“We’re mired in conflict.”
“We’re over budget, missing deadlines and the scope is out of control.”
“We’re launching a new initiative and want to get it right”
Ways We Help Get Your Team On Track
Alignment
Build trust and elicit a shared sense of ownership. Hold each other accountable.
Team Assessment
Surface hidden problems; identify strengths and weaknesses and make appropriate adjustments; decide the way forward.
Conflict Resolution
Set clear intentions, listen to individual concerns and face conflict/problems head on.
Vision Setting
Articulate a vision, initiate the team charter and identify priorities.
Commitment Clarification
Confirm roles and responsibilities; articulate how the team will work together.
Communication
Learn best practices and practice ways of communication that bring clarity and commitment.