Our thoughts on Teams and Team Development
Addressing Practical Issues
Teams often find it difficult in raising, let alone discussing constructively, the issues that are fundamental to their success. An external facilitator can ensure these matters are brought into the open and are dealt with in a helpful and positive way. Our role in these situations is to:
- clarify the team issues that need to be dealt with and identify what needs to be achieved
- challenge, stimulate new thinking and ensure difficult issues are addressed
- focus the team on the critical activities to reach the agreed goals
Developing better ways of working
Teams can waste a great deal of time and effort by failing to understand some basic principles of teamworking, working in a haphazard way and waiting for situations to arise before deciding how to deal with them. Understanding how a team can work effectively, even when it is made up of people with different personalities, interests and ways of working can save time and unnecessary hassle in the future. We can help teams establish ways they might work together, that would be best for them, and will enable them to be more effective and productive than would otherwise be the case
We help teams to work more effectively and productively.
Teams
Groups of people who interact frequently and are often located in the same area are often referred to as a “team”. However, such groups may be seen, by either themselves or others, as just a collection of people who work together (e.g. a “workgroup”). In many ways the distinction is immaterial and our approach is to focus on what people need to do together that will produce what is required in the best possible way.
The effective teams and workgroups model that Obsidian have developed, that is set out below, summarises the six core factors that our research and experience have shown need to be considered where people work together. Performance Management in our terms covers both organisational and individual performance, and the critical links between the two.
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