Team DISCovery

Team DISCovery™

Focus: Intact Workteams or Small Businesses of about 25 or less employees

Time Frame: 6 months; usually about one meeting every 3 to 4 weeks, with a total of 5 half-days with a half-day follow-up about 3 months later.

Price: $15,500 USD; includes all materials for up to 10 participants. Extra particpants are $200 each.*

Team performance is a fact, not a fad. Unfortunately, so is team frustration and failure. Team training efforts continue to miss the target by focusing on togetherness, open communication and interpersonal dynamics rather than simply getting the basics right.

Jon Katzenback and Douglas Smith, The Wisdom of Teams

Developing effective teams takes time…

Only an ongoing process of development will produce sustainable change that results in increased performance.

Team DISCovery^™ was developed to address the key reasons why most team building programs don’t achieve any real results in the long term, even if they appear to have worked in the short term.

Changing behavior takes time. You cannot expect people to change their behavior and continue with those changes from a 2 or 3 day training experience.
The focus of team building must be on improving results, not just improving relationships.

The starting point for any team must be to be clear about why they exist as a team, what they have to achieve, and what each team member has to do so that the team can achieve the desired outcomes. This basic starting point is often not achieved because of ineffective communication… about why the team exists (their purpose), their goals, and what each team member needs to do to accomplish this.

Team DISCovery^™ not only achieves a high level of clarity and agreement about the team’s purpose and goals, it provides insight into the factors that inhibit effective communication about these critical issues.

The initial focus is on the impact that differences in behavioral style have on communication, decision-making and goal-orientation and building trust. Through use of the DiSC^® Behavioral Model, team members gain a better understanding of the impact their behavior is having on other team members, and what needs to be done to improve communication.

Through an understanding of the DiSC^® Behavioral Model team members also gain a better appreciation of the contribution that team members who have a different style to themselves are making to the team. An effective team needs the strengths of different styles, and the team will not function effectively unless all team members are contributing their strengths, and other team members respect and value what they are contributing.

Trust is another key factor in determining a team’s success. Trust provides the foundation for helping the team to achiecve its goals.

Only by focusing on communicating more openly and directly about the Four Behaviors that Build Trust™ can the team can move forward to becoming more productive.

The Components of a High Performance Team

We work with intact teams to strengthen the skills that build a high-performance team. Our program involves teams working together in 5 half-day sessions with 2 to 4 weeks between each session. During these sessions teams learn:

about their own behavioral style and the styles of others
how to communicate more effectively with each other
about their preferred work environment
about the purpose and goals of the team - their team performance challenge
about individual and team strengths
how their group culture impacts on their effectiveness at achieving the team performance challenge
how to give and receive feedback to each other to increase performance
how to accentuate the positive
how others react to our behavioral approaches
how to build trust with each other
how to engage in constructive conflict to achieve commitment

The program concludes with a sixth half-day session to review progress in about 3 months, resulting in about a 6 to 9 month program.

Team DISCovery™ is a Seven Elements of High Performance™ Program.

The US Navy has adopted our model for use at the Center for Naval Leadership in all of their leadership development programs.

*Plus Travel and Expenses.

Our Programs

Team Quest^tm
Vision Quest^tm
Leadership Connections: Engaging Performance^tm
Work Engagement Survey^tm
Team DISCovery^tm