HIGH-PERFORMANCE TEAMWORK

• Identifying the strengths of individual team members and how they translate into the team dynamic.

• Support of the team during a period of transition, especially a change in leadership.

• Facilitating the formation of a new team, including the definition of mission, vision, goals, norms, and roles and responsibilities.

• Building trust, respect, and collaboration.
  
  

CONFLICT RESOLUTION

• Identifying and resolving the underlying issues for dysfunctional teams.

• Meeting individually with team members to determine their perception of how the team is performing.  Establishing a baseline for team performance.

• Reducing distractions that worsen conflict.

• Transforming conflict from destructive to constructive.
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GENERATIONAL DIFFERENCES

• Understanding the motivators and values of each generation.

• Identifying potential areas of conflict between generations, based on those motivators and values.

• Negotiating toward trust and respect.

Reaching high levels of team performance is not an easy feat to accomplish.  Team effectiveness does not just happen.  It isn't learned in a classroom.  It is developed through deliberate, day-to-day interaction.  

Our experience tells us that successful teams possess three characteristics: a clear purpose, strong relationships, and effective processes.  Teams with healthy relationships will disagree, even argue at times, about the best idea or approach.  Let us help you gain a grasp on group dynamics and develop productive teams, by doing some of things listed below.

Birkman for Teams