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Team Building Needs Analysis
Before any team building intervention occurs team members are asked:
“What gets in the way of this being a productive team?”
“What do you think will help to make things better?”
These questions help issues surface and allow us to put the issues into a positive and hopeful context.
To give one example of that process:
A number of teams experience conflict between the “old timers” and the “new kids on the block”. What many of them do not realize is that tensions between old and new are a normal part of change.
When change is not handled supportively, the “founders” get the feeling that everything they have done to build the organization is being invalidated by new people pressing for change.
Or the "new kids" start to feel unmotivated and ignored.
Understanding how to manage change can help to heal this polarization so that both factions can move forward together.
Identifying the team issues makes developing an effective team easier. Once the issues are identified, the team can meet together to start looking at ways to make things better.
Cobalt offers a one-hour, free team building needs analysis. All of our work begins with a needs analysis because strategic solutions require a good foundation.
Our team building needs analysis includes:
- An introduction to Cobalt and how we do business
- A discussion about your practice and how you do business
- An introduction to your key staff members
- A review of current team issues
After the needs analysis, we will submit a proposal covering our plan which may include a more in-depth team assessment.
