Team Effectiveness

Team Development

Organizations’ success relies on effective teams. We partner with your organization to develop and sustain high-performing teams, using our unique consulting, coaching, and training methodologies. We work with all types of teams including executive teams, in-tact teams, groups of team leaders, long -standing teams or newly formed teams. Our goal is to help your team to increase effectiveness, deliver business results, and Improve communication and morale.

Takeaways resulting from team development include:

Gain clearer understanding of the team’s mission and purpose
Create a clear team charter
Achieve clarity on team members’ roles and responsibilities
Gain commitment and cooperation from your team
Create mutual accountability and commitment among team members and set clear and realistic team goals
Learn how to give effective and powerful feedback to your team members by leveraging your individual strengths and communication style

Approach

RAE Development utilizes a 4 step process:

Step 1: Needs Assessment

Vision and strategize the most sustainable team-effectiveness program and determine program success measures. Complete relevant assessments to measure the team’s current state and determine any gaps. We use a variety of assessments to assist in determining team strengths and development areas including Meyer’s-Briggs Type Indicator™, customized team surveys, and the Strengths Deployment Inventory™

Step 2: Gain Support

Identify supportive formal and informal leaders who can clarify your team’s mission and champion your team’s ongoing efforts across the organization.

Step 3: Design & Delivery

Create a powerful team-effectiveness program for your organization which may include the use of assessments, training modules, and follow-on group and/or individual coaching. Many of our team-effectiveness programs incorporate the following elements:

developing a common vision, purpose, and set of goals
determining strategy • defining roles and structure
setting clear expectations • creating team ground rules
improving team communication • reducing conflicts
defining team processes • engaging in team coaching

Step 4: Monitoring & Measuring

Regular evaluation of progress based on program success measures is key to monitoring your program success, ensuring program participants stay on course, and evaluating return on investment.

Leadership Off-Sites and Retreats

With today’s challenges and distractions in the work place it can be challenging hard for leaders to focus on professional development. Our workshops hone in on key areas including:

Effective Communication
Setting strategy
Understanding Team Member’s strengths, interests and goal
Team building
Building communication skills through Drum Circles

The Five Dysfunctions of Teams

RAE Development incorporates Patrick Lencioni’s 5 Dysfunctions of Team’s best practice model to develop teams.

The model describes 5 Dysfunctions that impact a Team’s performance:

Dysfunction #1: Absence of Trust
Dysfunction # 2: Fear of Conflict
Dysfunction # 3: Lack of Commitment
Dysfunction # 4: Avoidance of Accountability
Dysfunction # 5: Inattention to Results

RAE Development designs customized sessions that focuses on o vercoming each dysfunction so your team can thrive and produce results while maintaining trust and strong communication amongst team members.