Supercharge Your Work Team Seven Steps To Create A High Performing Team
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Every organization has work groups that need to work better together, or than can benefit from higher levels of productivity and performance. Bart Allen Berry has lead his teamwork consulting and training company for the past 28 years, developing and delivering best practice teambuilding and team development programs for hundreds of organizationa such as Coca Cola, US Air Force, Pfizer, Sony, Samsung and The Central Intelligence Agency. Bart's company, San Diego Corporate Training was the first to bring experiential teambuilding methodologies to Mexico, South Korea and The Sultanate of Oman. Bart has lead team training programs for more than 200,000 employees and managers and presents here, the refinements of his team development methodology developed over the last three decades. Included in this book are not only the seven steps to supercharge any intact work group, but also the Functional Workgroup Teamwork Survey- a 50 question statistical baseline of teamwork performance, and the Teamwork Behavior Self Assessment - a powerful instrument for individual teamwork behavior self awareness. This is the ideal program for any frustrated manager or company CEO looking for ways to boost organizational performance, productivity and to develop a healthier team and organizational culture. Great for stuck teams or those who are already performing well but want to reach their full potential.
Bart Allen Berry
Bart Allen Berry is a veteran trainer and organizational consultant and founder of his own 30 year old firm. Bart has worked with hundreds of organizations worldwide from large multi national corporations and government to international manufacturers and entrepreneurial start-ups. Bart has operated his own company corporate learning centers in San Diego, Palm Springs, Newport Beach and Baja Mexico.Bart specializes in Team Development and Experiential Learning, Strategic Planning, Leadership Development, Quality Management, and Customer Satisfaction. Bart was a founding faculty member with UCSD’s Executive Edge Leadership Development Program for CEO’s and has taught for many institutions including UC Riverside, University of Redlands, University Of Denver, and The University Of Humanistic Studies and many internal corporate learning departments.Bart is credited with being the first to bring corporate experiential learning technology for team and leadership development to Mexico, The Republic of Korea and The Sultanate of Oman. Bart’s clients include Sony, Mattel, American Express, Tyco Healthcare. Merck, Ritz Carlton, The Central Intelligence Agency, US Navy, Department Of Energy, US Air Force, EG&G, Dyncorp, Proxima, and hundreds more.
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Supercharge Your Work Team Seven Steps To Create A High Performing Team - Bart Allen Berry
SUPERCHARGE
YOUR WORK TEAM
Seven Steps To Create A High Performing Team
By Bart Allen Berry
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Table Of Contents
Introduction
Step One: Create A Rationale For Teamwork
Step Two: Establishing The Ideal State Of The Team
Step Three: Establishing The Teamwork Baseline – Where Is The Team Today?
Step Four: Learning By Experience, The Team Practices Better Teamwork Together
Step Five: The High Energy Shared Experience, Tapping Into The Emotional Commitment To The Team
Step Six: Individual Contribution And Commitment To The Team
Step Seven: Capturing Team Learning, Commitment And Follow Through
Appendix
About The Author
Introduction
All organizations, even the smallest, depend on teamwork for their success. A high performing team is not only capable of more but serves as an inspiration to others by demonstrating what’s possible when people work together well.
Creating a high performing team is a structured, proven process through which you can tap more of a teams’ potential to attain significant improvements in performance and productivity. An additional benefit is the improvement in job satisfaction for all concerned.
‘Synergy’ might seems like an overused term in management science lingo, but there really is no better word to describe the dynamic effect produced when:
- Barriers to teamwork are removed
- The work team defines a stronger identity for themselves as a high performing team
- The work team learns more effective group process skills and approaches
- Individuals mitigate their own dysfunctional team behaviors
- A strong commitment and plan is established by the team with 'buy-in' from each of its members
Does synergy sound like a lofty or even impossible goal? There is a systematic approach to building high-performing teams that will work for you even if you’ve tried team training, team development or team building before.
Supercharge Your Work Team outlines the critical steps needed to transform your low or average-functioning teams into high-performing, synergistic units that are recognized for results and widely acknowledged for their strong and positive influence on the organization. This methodology is not only appropriate for low performers or teams with serious problems but also for taking well-performing teams to even greater levels of productivity and team member satisfaction.
Who can benefit from this book?
Any work group
Training and HR Directors
Company Presidents and CEOs
Executive Teams
Sales Teams
Engineering Teams
Any functional work group whose members have an interest in working better together
Individual team members who want to be a catalyst for improvement on their own dysfunctional teams
SUPERCHARGE YOUR WORK TEAM –Seven Steps To A Create A High Performing Team is based on our work with over 200,000 employees and managers over the past 28 years. The best practice approach described here has repeatedly validated itself with work groups from nearly every industry in six different countries.
Why Team Building Must Be A Priority
There is one simple answer to this question: Work groups without good teamwork cost the organization money.
Poor teamwork impacts the organization’s bottom line. Dysfunctional, underperforming and ineffective teams create inefficiency, waste, rework and mistakes. They can be the cause of low morale, they undermine worker commitment and initiative, and can be a major cause of stress in the workplace.
If poor teamwork is pervasive, it can rob an organization of its competitive advantage and threaten its very existence.
Consider some of the ramifications of low levels of teamwork:
Excessive sick leave
Stress-related illnesses
Missed deadlines, quotas, or production goals
Poor quality of products and services
Conflict
Lack of communication within and between departments
Customer dissatisfaction
Lost customers
Lack of creativity
Stifled initiative
Workplace sabotage (disgruntled employees who erase vital computer files, etc.)
Work teams who never reach their potential
Retention problems resulting in the need for costly recruitment and training of replacement workers
A negative atmosphere that turns away the best talent
Upset workers who file expensive lawsuits
Lack of confidence and support for management
The list goes on.
The costs can escalate exponentially over time if teamwork issues are not identified and corrected. These issues can jeopardize even a successful business in today’s competitive marketplace. A comment you often hear about a company on the ropes is They just can’t get it together.
Lack of teamwork can almost always be identified as one of the central issues when a company is floundering, identifying it as a symptom or a cause.
Investing In Teams—One Of The Best Investments You’ll Ever Make
The major expense in most companies is not in equipment or materials but in human capital. While almost all companies spend profusely on maintenance and upgrades to keep their expensive systems and machinery operating at peak levels, only the best organizations invest in their work teams in the same way.
Any organization is only as good as the people who work there. Investing in Team Development means to invest in your human capital, to create an environment where increasingly more self-directed groups of talented individuals take pride in what they do, have a strong sense of identity and purpose, and excel in productivity because of the nature of how they work together. These teams give off positive energy that is contagious across the organization, are recognized and respected as leaders and can be counted on to deliver.
Consider any commodity industry where the products and services are mostly the same. Whether linoleum flooring, light bulbs or life insurance, the true differentiation between a successful company and an unsuccessful one is the often people. How employees work together can make the difference between a motivated and energized enterprise, recognized for its efficiency, focus and innovation and its competitor which is staffed by clock punchers who are unempowered and motivated by fear.
Make no mistake—the latter organization will eventually lose its most talented workers- and often to that other firm with a better environment of teamwork.
Every Team Needs Maintenance
No matter what the organization or industry, it is statistically improbable that everyone in a given work group will get along with one another, and that there won’t be problems, issues and relationship difficulties. Astute managers recognize that every team can benefit from team building, skills development and support.
Training Cost And Time Considerations
The decision to invest in team development or team building has been difficult for some organizations because they haven’t had a clear picture of the cost-benefit relationship. The benefits mentioned here, as well as the risks for not investing in team development, have not seemed tangible enough to justify the expense of such a program on a quarter-by-quarter basis. Herein lies the problem:
Any organization needs a complete process for team development, not a hit-and-miss strategy. There are many incomplete approaches to team development today. Consultants are usually willing to build a program around whatever the company is willing to spend in time and money regardless of whether it is really what the organization needs or whether it will produce lasting results. Most training companies would never admit to this, of course, but let the buyer of training beware! While such trainers are well intended, there are dangers inherent in fragmentary approaches to team development.
28 years of teamwork consulting and training reminds us that our challenge is always to get the client to commit to a process that is actually going to achieve their desired outcome of creating high performance teams.
In today’s downsized business environment, time is as much a factor as cost when making a commitment to team development programs. In the 1980s, three to five-day team training programs were the norm, and significant change could be accomplished in that length of time. The time companies were willing to invest became shorter in the 1990s until today the trend is toward one and two-day team programs, sometimes shrinking to half day or one to two hour segments. Such time restraints make it extremely difficult for a teamwork trainer to achieve the desired results. Shorter programs like these miss the mark and create a bad reputation for the teamwork consulting industry. Such ineffective team development models set unrealistic expectations and give the entire concept a bad name with employees as well as training decision makers.
The Seven-Step Team Transformation Process
There is another way for companies who are willing to abandon this shortsighted approach and make a deeper commitment. We are not talking here about some huge,