Teambuilding

Building the team can be an effective and rewarding undertaking if:

• Performance outcomes and results are the primary objective of coming together, not just improving interpersonal relationships.
• Team members are just as important as the team leader in discussing and evaluating team performance, current and future.
• The time together is spent discussing real, current and future successes and failures.
• Time is spent to understand the individual characteristics and contributions of each team member, and the willingness of each member to give and receive feedback regarding their contribution.
• Team members all agree to take the time to build the team, and participate in creating objectives for the teambuilding session.
• All understand that honesty is the “sine qua non” of teambuilding.
• The outside facilitator is skilled at building trust and establishing rapport.

“A team remains the most flexible and the most powerful unit of performance, learning and change in any organization. While a team can be misused, just as easily it can be overlooked. We remain convinced that getting real teams in the right places offers significant performance potential for any organization.”

– Jon Katzenbach