Team Building Skills

Help Any Team
Become More Successful

Have you ever been on a team where the team members or leaders:

• Have a problem staying on track?
• Have very little motivation or energy?
• Say very little or talk way too much?
• Are unable to make decisions?
• Belittle other people's ideas?
• Have their own clique within the team?
• Are in conflict with each other?
• Don't want to be on the team?
• Don't respect each other?
• Don't know how to care for and encourage each other?
• Are overwhelmed by the task ahead?

Such a team's chances for success will be predicated on its willingness to learn effective team building skills and then quickly put them into practice.

Our goal is to provide you with business proven and practical team building skills, tools, and resources that will develop your skills as a leader and those of your team members. We want to help you increase your confidence and ability to meet any of the challenges that that you are likely to encounter leading a team.

The tools and techniques described here address issues at all team stages(beginning, evolving, and mature). They help in chartering new teams and revitalizing existing teams. The tools include exercises, checklists, assessments, questionnaires, guidelines, and methods for measuring team development.

What are some of the most significant team building skills, tools, and techniques you can learn in order to be successful?

• Start-Up Skills. Learn how to facilitate positive relational connections between your team members and create excitement and energy about the goals of the team. We have tools, checklists, and assessments that will help you charter a new team and begin to learn more about each other.


• Shared Commitment Skills. Learn how to encourage your team to mutually commit to a common team purpose.


• Overcoming Limiting Beliefs Skills. Learn how to help your team think in ways that do not limit what they can achieve.


• Team Morale Skills. Learn how to evaluate team morale and how it is impacting performance.


• Personality and Style Skills. What kind of personalities is the team composed of? Are they introverted or extroverted? Do you find them open, agreeable, conscientious, emotionally stable? Will it help you to understand the style of each team member? What are the team's strengths and potential blind spots? Check out the following links:
  • MBTI Team Overview
  • Learn How The MBTI will Benefit Your Team
  • Improve How Your Team Gathers Information
  • Improve Your Team's Performance
  • Improve Your Team's Decision Making
  • Learn Why Your Teammates Do What They Do
  • Learn More About Our Team Tools
  
  
• Communication Skills. These tools and checklists teach your team how to effectively communicate with and listen to one another. Click on Leader Skills: Building on Teammates Ideas


• Trust Skills. These tools and checklists provide crucial trust skills for teams to perform well together. For example, teams examine their ability to trust each other during challenges which involve perceived risks. Click on Leader Skills: Building Trust in Teams


• Cooperation Skills. These tools and checklists develop skills to help teams abandon competitive thinking by learning how to solve problems through cooperation.


• Conflict Resolution Skills. To be an effective team, members must reach agreements on goals, make decisions about how to achieve those goals, and help each other accomplish the work of the team, despite the differences. For example, the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) is designed to help you and your teammates understand your styles of conflict and suggests ways that your team can increase your effectiveness handling conflict as a team.

  We have exercises that place teams in conflict situations to challenge, encourage, and examine their ability to resolve conflicts and reconcile differences. Click on Leader Skills: Resolving Conflicts in Teams or go to the Team Tools Page and scroll down to the TKI Instrument.



• Giving and Receiving Care and Support Skills. Teams learn how to give and receive care and support to their teammates. These tools focus on encouraging team members to be "other" focused to help each other feel supported, appreciated, respected and affirmed, which is proven to increase a teams motivation.

We can also help you design Team Building Workshops where the time and content can be adjusted to fit the needs of any team, from a corporate leadership team to a small church or family team.

We can provide consulting services by phone. If you need experienced coaching help we would be happy to provide you with the most cost effective approach.

Please complete our form (below) to "Request Information" if you have any questions or need our help.

The team building skills and tools we can equip you and your team with are business proven and tested around the world, and will help any team become successful.

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