Research has made it crystal clear that the capacity of an organization to build and use teams provides a major competitive advantage. In fact, real teams might be the most viable tools modern organizations have for increasing financial, technical, and human performance. Although teams are more important today than ever before, they’re often misunderstood.

Establishing High-Performance Team Basics

The primary purpose of our team coaching program is to help team leaders and members establish high-performance team basics. To do so, we apply a functional team development approach, which focuses on directly transferring performance gains to the work setting. The endgame is to improve team effectiveness in ways that are quantifiable in the workplace, which is to say they are evidence-based.

Functional Team Development Performance Factors

Functional team development coaching helps improve team effectiveness by enhancing any of eight essential team performance factors. In high-performance teams, all of these factors will be in alignment.

Investing in Teams Pays Dividends

We have found that some of these team performance factors are best addressed in offsite events. This gives the teams a chance to stand back, reflect, and see their human performance factors and workplace dynamics more clearly and objectively. Typically, what’s going on inside team members is having a greater impact on performance than external factors. Just clearing the air and resetting the team’s purpose can work miracles.

Other team development initiatives need to take place in the actual work setting, so that work processes and performance factors can be evaluated and optimized pragmatically. Our team assessment process includes steps that help identify areas to develop first to maximize performance gains and leverage the organization’s investment.