New Team Alignment™ enables teams to move into effective action quickly by creating more trusting relationships and partnerships, enhancing team and individual performance, supporting group identity that is aligned with the company culture and supports the business strategy, and developing a shared understanding of direction for the team members.
When new teams are formed through mergers or reorganisations, members generally experience fear and distrust. They have many questions about who their new leader and members are and how the new team will operate. Our approach is to deal with fears and other issues up front; to create shared understanding of team norms, leader and member roles and responsibilities; and to understand the team's direction, objectives, timelines, and deliverables. Alignment on these issues creates the foundation for strategic planning and effective action.
In New Team Alignment™ you will learn how to:
The New Team Alignment™ design includes pre-interviews with participants and is customized to respond to the company's environment and culture as well as to specific needs of the team and team leader. The key members of a new team attend the two-and-a-half-day experience as a single group.
"New Team Alignment profoundly altered my viewpoint of the individuals and of the whole team in the most positive sense. I now have a very positive perspective on where the team can go and what we can achieve —and my every dream was fulfilled in that respect."
"New Team Alignment provided me with new insights about myself and my colleagues that have enabled us to advance to a new level of cooperation and achievement. I have increased confidence in my abilities and more trust and faith in others."
"This was a great arena to learn and feel the mechanics and desires of the group. The strategic path has been set —I now feel like we have a team and I am part of it."