Team Performance System

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User Comments:

"Great toolkit for managing people and projects."

"I can use this tomorrow to handle a tricky cross-functional group problem."

"These tools are so valuable, and have served my company well in a fast-paced, random culture."

"Right on the money!"

12 Team Traps

  1. False Consensus

  2. Inability to Reach Closure

  3. Rigid Hierarchy

  4. Weak Leadership

  5. Uneven Participation

  6. Lack of Cohesion

  7. Lack of Mutual Accountability

  8. Unrealistic Expectations

  9. Forgotten Customer

  10. Left Out Stakeholders

  11. Overt Conflict

  12. Covert Conflict

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What

Tools and templates to help managers, team leaders and members create the culture and behaviors to get work done more efficiently. Over 50 web-based tools cover the entire spectrum of management issues, from team launch, facilitation, feedback, communication, decision making, problem solving, and conflict resolution to change management and stakeholder relationships.

Why

  • Increase team productivity and reduce time-to-market through the use of best management practices

  • Speed up team launch by aligning quickly to purpose and actions

  • Avoid the 12 most common Team Traps (see sidebar)

  • Provide just-in-time action learning for existing teams that lets them solve their own problems

  • Access knowledge and research gathered from over 700 teams in high tech, biotech, financial, healthcare, and manufacturing

  • Drive your Project Management Office, Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing efforts more effectively with this complementary toolset

  • Provide state-of-the-art facilitation, consulting and teambuilding tools to your Human Resource and Organizational Development professionals

Who

  • Project teams

  • Work groups

  • Executive teams

  • Cross-functional teams

  • Co-located or globally distributed teams

  • Newly forming teams

  • Teams that are stuck or de-railed

How

  • Identify the best practices that will meet your business objectives

  • Select from the extensive menu of pre-existing tools, assessment instruments, templates and training modules

  • Develop and integrate your own tools using the simple, standardized format: Description, Steps, Tips, Worksheet

  • Access immediately from our server without IT support, or have your own branded tools and instruments with your company's look and feel

  • Host discussions and add Tips directly to your website

  • Create a comprehensive approach including team leader training, expert facilitation and executive coaching

  • Monitor performance improvement with the online feedback instruments

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