Team-Building

Team-building is a specific and often requested outcome of group programs. The type and format of a team-building program will depend on the current status of the team. Are they new to one another? Are you building toward new capabilities? Are you solving a specific need? Are you on a continuous journey of strengthening and learning? Below are some common tools used for team-building programs. Let’s talk about your more specific needs.

EverythingDiSC by Wiley

The EverythingDiSC model provides a straightforward model and simple language to help us talk about our workplace relationships. Self-awareness is the core building block that leads to mindset and behavior changes. The program gives us tools to recognize, understand and appreciate other ways of working on our team. EverythingDiSC has a large platform of applications for individuals, managers, teams and leaders. As well as specific applications for emotional intelligence and productive conflict. Jonathan is a certified in-person and on-line facilitator. If you have used this tool in the past, I’ll bet you’ll be excited to check out the new Catalyst platform.

Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team

A team-health evaluation that identifies specific team-level behaviors that are limiting your team success. Intended for smaller leadership teams, the team moves together (and often individually) for several months through the stages of this model in order to maximize its value. Learn more here.

MBTI

A more advanced tool useful for understanding how we and others take in, organize, decide and communicate—the primary activities of knowledge workers.

Tuckman model

A model to help teams understand their changing feelings about their group work and about one another. We’ll help teams harness this natural team-development process to more quickly get functional and get the work done. Useful in organizations in which new teams are being formed as a result of organizational change.

ProSci

ProSci is a premiere organizational change management tool. Models and tools to simultaneously design communication, sponsorship, coaching, training and resistance management plans for individuals who must implement the organizational changes. This is comprehensive tool to prepare and measure success of new initiatives.