Innovative Teams and Teamwork

Not every group is a team and not every team is effective. Teamwork is not an off-the-shelf product. Teamwork has general principles and logic as well as defined components, but these have to be melded and formulated to fit team members and their circumstances. As a computer system requires co-ordinated work between designers and users, so too does teamwork.

Team Building and Coaching

The Applied Innovation Centre turn groups into high performance teams that get results.

In coaching teams and facilitating team-building sessions, we can design up to five different types of programs, depending on the current development stage of your team:

• Team start-ups for newly formed work teams or groups working towards optimum productivity.
• Regular formal Review strategies for average or well performing teams willing to become high performance teams.
• Addressing known task-related problem/issues for groups or work teams that are “stuck”, but willing to take responsibility and act to improve their current performance.
• Identifying the problems/issues for ineffective/unproductive groups or pseudo-teams suffering from low morale and productivity, unable to identify clear reasons for their underperformance.
• Targeted Interventions for dysfunctional and unproductive teams suffering from low morale and needing support for growth, team member development and/or conflict resolution strategies.

If you are unsure of the current level of development of your team, the Applied Innovation Centre can assist you to determine this and to develop an appropriate and tailored program to achieve your goals.