Building a Cohesive Team
Strong cohesive teams are essential for healthy impactful organizations and successful businesses. My proven training system empowers you and your teams with the skills and tools necessary to be effective.
Build Teams
Strong cohesive teams are essential for healthy impactful organizations and successful businesses. My proven training system empowers you and your teams with the skills and tools necessary to be effective.
STEP #1 - Goals
The first and most important thing needed in building an effective team culture is a set of shared values, goals and practices.
STEP #2 - Clarity
We need an environment where goals and projects are transparent, so everybody is on the same footing.
STEP #3 - Unity
We need everyone on every team in the organization to have a common skill set for teamwork.
Team Connection. Successful Organizations.
We have all been part of a team where we are supposed to work together to get a job done, but, instead, end up having to work through personality differences.
It made us wish the project was over before it even started.
As a manager, do you feel like you are spending more time playing referee rather than being a coach?
Why can’t everyone just get along?
The ability for individuals within an organization to work together effectively and productively is now more critical than ever—it’s time to rewrite the rules of teamwork.
The first and most important thing needed in building an effective team culture is a set of shared values, goals and practices.
We also need an environment where goals and projects are transparent, so everybody is on the same footing. That leads to clarity on direction and synergy across the organization.
To foster this culture, we need free information flow across teams and the entire organization. This is essential as individuals and teams shift in a more fluid manner.
The reality is that we typically aren’t trained to have an effective teamwork skill set. Rather, most people base their understanding of effective teamwork on their experiences, on what they learned in childhood or through trial and error in the workplace.
Ultimately, to have an effective team culture we need everyone on every team in the organization to have a common skill set for teamwork, and this skill set is critical to the future success of the organization.
These traditional behaviors in a workplace setting, such as not challenging authority and hiding our flaws, can unfortunately get in the way.
A mind shift is needed. We need new rules and norms for how to work together.
We want to create an environment where there is trust, so team members…
- can challenge one another productively
- can improve rather than give criticisms that make people defensive or competitive and suspicious of others
- strive for the best result
- commit to the team’s decisions
- hold one another accountable to assure an efficient team
There is power in these new rules. They allow us to be more authentic and to break down barriers that get in the way.
Let me help you and your team become better together. No more unproductive teams. Let go and crush the criticisms and unhealthy banter.
The Team Building Process
Building teams takes a little extra hand holding and instruction, but with the assistance of Carol and her team at Release the Beast, we have a system that has proven to work.
It all starts with Catalyst.
Catalyst is a personalized, online learning platform that acts as a single access point throughout a your teams journey. We help, through instructor-led facilitation, to use the Catalyst platform and learn how to integrate DiSC into the flow of everyday work, ensuring takeaways are readily applied and ALWAYS available when needed. (see video at the top of this page to learn more on DiSC)
The Catalyst Platform Experience
Catalyst takes your Everything DiSC experience to the next level by making the hard work of lasting behavior change possible—even fun!
On Catalyst, learners will:
- Take the Assessment: As the original DiSC provider with over 40 years of expertise, Everything DiSC offers a proven, scientifically validated assessment with a 90%+ accuracy rating from learners worldwide. Learners respond to behavioral statements on a five-point scale to measure their preferences and tendencies based on the DiSC model—a simple, yet powerful model that describes four basic behavioral styles: D (Dominance), i (influence), S (Steadiness), and C (Conscientiousness).
- Discover Their DiSC Style: Catalyst delivers each learners’ assessment results using a personalized, narrative-style behavioral profile. The personalized profile content:
- Deepens self-understanding through the lens of each learner’s unique DiSC style
- Gives learners insight into their own preferences and tendencies
- Lays the groundwork for a transformational learning experience full of “aha!” moments
- Connect with Colleagues: The Find Colleagues feature enables learners to integrate DiSC into their day-to-day work lives. Learners can use this feature to:
- Compare DiSC styles and gain tips for more effective interactions
- Easily navigate through the platform to view comparison continua, actionable tips, and more
- Adapt to the unique needs of each person and situation they encounter in real time
- Access DiSC Applications for Ongoing Learning: Catalyst offers a range of DiSC application content designed to help learners develop the social and emotional know-how for more effective interactions at work. This personalized content helps each learner:
- Better understand themselves
- Appreciate and value difference in perspective and approach
- Readily—and consistently—adapt to the unique needs of each person or situation they encounter
Benefits to your company
- Increases productivity
- Brings people together for more collaborative thinking (two minds are better than one)
- Engaged employees who feel vested in the company
- More creative ideas flow, which help grow your business
- Healthy competition
- Happy and loyal employees
- Morale is high
- Respect of the community
- Low turnover which affects costs
- Fun, high spirited atmosphere
