High Performing Teams

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Many organizations invest in team building events where games are played and discussions facilitated but little is actually accomplished to address fundamental improvements in how the team functions.   Many of these approaches are actually effective AFTER a proven method for improving self and team awareness is executed, but this is not common.  

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Back in 2003, we started a new process with executive teams who had just been through debriefs on their behavioral assessments focusing on both their  leadership, interpersonal and personal effectiveness behaviors and how effective they are in initiating, motivating, implementing and maintaining in each area.  We found that even after positive even emotional experiences improving their self-awareness and better understanding their causal factors underlying their behavior,  a few weeks later,  many reverted back to previous behaviors  with little benefit.   We hypothesized that if they had to share their perceptions of others and then share their actual behavioral tendencies (assessment sc

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Virtually every organization has a formal structure and a formal network with formal communications and systems   but each day as customers interact, projects get done, individual tasks get accomplished, it is the informal network where most of the real work gets done.  Increasingly this informal network extends out to other organizations and to customers. 

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When you want to improve your ability to select the right people for the job, or manage them more effectively, or develop them optimally, you need to realize that decision support tools have drastically improved in the last few years.    Choosing the right employees and managing them effectively involves ongoing decisions that need to be supported with critical information.  The validated information that is now available inexpensively is a really a game changer  (in the game of management).

 

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The Harrison Assessment reveals insights on what drives behaviors and how we typically act under normal stress and under extreme stress.  It also reveals how likely we are to see certain "strong" behaviors or imbalances.  During the debrief process and even more so, in executive team building sessions using these tools, we've continually learn lessons in how to improve and sustain a high performing team.

 

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