Team Development

Team Development Team Building Excursion Learning^™ Facilitation

Leaders today are required to build and motivate cross-departmental or cross-border teams, while honoring diverse cultures and people. Leaders want high-performance team members who openly collaborate and seamlessly hand-off quality work.

Yet, teamwork skills don’t come naturally. Leaders must establish expectations and norms for high performance. To achieve high quality work, team members need to learn how to navigate with agility and collaborate productively. We help:

Accelerate cross-functional collaboration
Align goals and work processes to business strategy
Jumpstart new teams and team member integration
Build safe environments for risk-taking, effective conflict management and creativity
Gain higher engagement, commitment and trust by getting all voices heard
Cultivate shared accountability and end-to-end ownership
Reduce rework and duplication of effort
Clarify roles and responsibilities

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QuickStart: Supports Team Integration and Development

QuickStart^™ is a team development process model designed specifically for senior management teams that have formed as a result of a merger or acquisition. Led by experienced Innolect organizational effectiveness consultants, QuickStart^™ rapidly creates team identity, builds team trust, and establishes a high level of team efficacy. The speed of QuickStart^™ enables teams to achieve aggressive short-term business goals and build the foundation for long term strategic success.

Team Development Blogs

What Can Aspen Teach Us About Collaboration?

By Kittie Watson | March 22, 2019

Did you know that aspen trees in Trembling Giant grove in Utah are the oldest living organism in the world—over 80,000 years old? You might ask, “how is that possible?” Our answer is twofold: Collaboration and Support.

Collaboration, Encouragement and Barn-raising

By Kittie Watson | October 16, 2018

The Cajun Navy, an informal network of good Samaritans with small watercraft, mobilized once again in the last few weeks—this time to help the victims of Hurricanes Florence and Michael. Formed as a response to Katrina in 2005, the so-called Cajun Navy has saved thousands of stranded people and lives. Their emergent activity, now an integral component of hurricane disaster relief, has similar characteristics to what many Amish families experience with barn-raising when disaster strikes in their communities.

Collaborative Leadership: How to Avoid Fears and Traps

By Kittie Watson | March 23, 2017

…collaborative leaders who have built strong cross-functional relationships and trust are more likely to commit to enterprise-wide goals rather than their own individual or business unit goals. They focus on doing what is right for the organization as a whole.