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Team
Development - The Baraka Speciality
Team Development and Team Enhancement workshops are our speciality.
We have vast experience in this field of professional development and have
worked with many teams ranging in size from the very small work group to the
large corporate team.
Baraka Training & Management can offer a Team Development
Program specifically designed to met the unique needs of your team.
Material can be customised to highlight the strengths of the team and to
identify opportunities for improvement using a catalogue of professional
development products and tools.
Team Development sessions tailored to your needs have been
delivered in a variety of formats and utilising a variety of venues. Time
lines range from half day sessions to three day Team Retreats. Content can
be focused solely on theories and principles, or hands-on experiential
activities or a mixture of both with the classroom as the setting or totally
facilitated in an outdoor, participative environment. The choice is yours.
A team-based approach is
fundamental to most modern organisations. The reliance upon project teams to drive change and innovation is but one
example! Now more than ever, people
need to have "Teamship Skills" which are on par with their
functional/technical skill sets, however many have had little training and
coaching in this important core area.
When
the fundamental outcomes of team building have been achieved, the second phase
of team development will accelerate your team's journey toward peak performance.
A team development program will provide the teamship skills and
operational framework for individuals and the team to reach its full potential.
Whilst every element of your chosen program can be designed specifically to match the needs of
each team, some key components of Baraka team development programs include:
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A
Process for Teamwork - Using The Team Wheel
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The
Team Make Up - Work Style Preferences and MBTI®
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Working
with Difference - Interpersonal Skills
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Team
Balance
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Operational
Framework - The Team's Charter
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Team Management Systems
Peter Reilly is an
experienced and qualified TMS facilitator and through Baraka Training & Management
he can offer TMS assessment and feedback
instruments as part of the Baraka professional development product catalogue. Team Management Systems (TMS)
is recognized as the foremost-integrated system of work based, research proven
assessments and feedback instruments worldwide.
The TMS approach focuses
on identifying and understanding key work elements that prove to be a reliable
and valid focus in explaining:
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why some individuals, teams, and organizations perform
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work effectively and achieve their objectives, while others fail
At its core, Team
Management Systems offers you and your organization research proven assessments
that reveal critical dynamics to enable the development of high performance in
the work place.
1. A Process for
Teamwork - The Team Wheel
Motivation to achieve is not enough! Teams
need a process to help them work together more effectively in solving problems
and making the best decisions. The
Team Wheel has nine key functions that are critical for achieving high
performance. The wheel ensures that
the team takes a balanced approach in all that it does, avoiding costly rework
and frustration.
2. The Team Make
Up
At the team-building stage, people are just getting to know each other.
They will be aware of different personalities in the team, but will lack
a framework by which they can understand these differences in more depth.
Using a work style diagnostic questionnaire, the second phase of the Team
Wheel identifies the preferences an individual has for the key functions.
Coupled with another diagnostic tool which measures people's innate
personality preferences, these comprehensive personal profiles raise
self-awareness and provide a common language whereby team members may openly
express and celebrate the diversity within their team.
3. Working with
Difference - Interpersonal Skills
Awareness of difference is the first step, the challenge is to develop the
skills to connect with people of quite different styles/approaches to your own.
Equipping people with Pacing Skills ensures that misunderstanding and
conflict is replaced with synergy and support.
4. Team Balance
By combining individual profiles, we can produce an overall team profile which
when reviewed within the context of the team's purpose, will highlight team
strengths and weaknesses. With the
assistance of a skilled facilitator, the team will develop strategies to address
weaknesses and maximize strengths.
5. Operational
Framework - The Team's Charter
Okay, we now have good understanding of who we are and how to pace each other
plus the team wheel to give us a systematic approach to problem solving and
decision making, but how will the team operate? Through
a series of workshops the team develops its own Team Charter.
Content may vary according to each team, however areas typically included
are:
- What's our role? - Team Role
Statement
- What are we trying to achieve? -
Team Vision/Mission Statement
- How will we treat each other? -
Team Values/Supporting Behaviours
- How and with whom shall we
communicate? - Communication Strategy
- How will we track our
performance? - Performance Management System
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If
you would like further information on any of our Team Development Products and
Workshops we would be only too happy to provide you with example team profiles,
workshop outlines and a 'no obligation' comprehensive quote. Call Kate on
(07) 49 782168 or email kate@btm.com.au
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