Team Process & Development

Unless you work alone, nothing happens in an organization without some level of coordination and interdependence. When groups are responsible for production, the task at hand is only a fraction of what must be managed for success. Attuning only to task means being blind to potential performance barriers as well as to potential sources for deeper collaboration and generativity embedded in the group. 

Leading successful and productive teams means enabling and supporting processes and practices that underlie team task performance. Teams are much more complicated than mere collections of individuals and as such, demand a more complicated and sophisticated management strategy. A skilled team manager simultaneously attends to individuals, the group, the task, the interdependencies, and the myriad processes facilitating communication, empowerment, and accountability.

If you're ready to take your team and your team leadership skills to the next level, its time to get intentional about how you see and learn about teams. Your potential as a team lead and the potential of your team is already there, waiting to be nurtured and developed. Together we can create a self-sustaining learning system within your team.  

Some principles of my approach to Team Development:

Intervention begins with assessment, from leadership down and from the bottom up.

Knowledge of what works well and what needs improvement is embedded at all levels of the system

Meaningful and sustainable team development requires understanding the broader system and organizational dynamics in which the team and its leadership operate

Leadership is an action, not a title. It requires courage and is the shared responsibility of the team.