Team Building

Your team is the most important part of your program. Again, an investment. Not all teams gel together or work well together. This occurs due to differing personalities, perspectives, opinions, and expectations. It is the program director’s responsibility to make the team function well in a collaborative, positive and supportive environment.  This does not happen naturally or overnight. 

To make everything run smoothly,time must be spent on the program director understanding each faculty member, each faculty member understanding the leadership style of the program director, and the faculty understanding each other. A strong team equals a strong program.

Teams need to know and understand each other to trust each other and work together effectively. Many people believe that team building is all about playing games and holding hands. Team building is much more than that.

Team building is multi-faceted. Everyone has a different style of communication and understanding the style of every team member is a crucial part of leadership. Communication is an art. It takes work and experience to be good at it.

Why is Team Building Important?

Think of it this way, if you walked into a room and were asked to assist with a project, which table would you select to join?

• Table of individuals that has several of your friends

• Table of individuals you have met but never worked with

• Table of individuals in which you know no one

As humans, we almost always select the first table because we believe that is where we will be the most comfortable and the most successful.

Now let’s imagine a group of faculty members who have different personality characteristics.  Do those individuals get along and work effectively together? Sometimes yes, but many times no.  But it does not have to be that way.

Understanding everyone’s personality traits on the team is important. And learning how to work with different personalities affects how the team functions as a whole.

Team Building Sessions

We offer team building sessions to assist programs in reaching their full potential as a group. These can be developed as a 1 or 2 day session.

There are four areas that we focus on – understanding and working with different personality traits within the program, understanding and working with different communication styles, understanding the strengths and weakness of the team, and working as a team.