What is team development?
Team development is a series of activities, interventions and conversations that increase the ability of a group of people in a mutually interdependent situation to work effectively together.
An effective team development programme:
Establishes the importance of team work to achieving particular outcomes
Ensures that members understand why they are there and what they contribute
Strengthens team identity
Increases the team’s ability to achieve their objectives
Develops a shared understanding of task and process
Increases members’ ability to display co-ordinated action in novel situations
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When is it a good idea to invest in team development?
This is a very good question, not all groups are teams. For team development to be a worthwhile investment there must be an inherent need for the people involved to co-ordinate their activities to achieve the task, that is, a level of mutual interdependency. If this organisational imperative is not present, than team development may not be the appropriate intervention.
Given this organisational imperative, team development can be appropriate in situations like these:
Newly established team
New team members
Change in team task
Change in organisational context for team
Merger of existing teams
Team performing poorly
Inter-team conflict, blame, poor morale
Intra-team conflict
Sudden loss of team performance
Change of leadership
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What does a team development programme involve?
Every situation is different, however a team development programme is likely to include some or all of the following elements
Individual initial interviews
The establishment of baseline measures of current performance
The agreement of an evaluation framework
A series of carefully designed and individually tailored activities
A series of carefully structured and facilitated conversations
Leadership coaching
Individual team member coaching
Facilitated conversations with other parts of the organisational system
Psychometric profiling
Evaluation of effectiveness
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How much does it cost?
This will depend on the particular package put together to meet your requirements. Jemstone Consultancy is committed to open and transparent cost arrangements with clients. Please see our pricing policy. Jemstone Consultancy will also ensure that you have a contract confirming the work to be done and the cost before work commences
To learn more about our general orientation towards our work please click here: general approach
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