Leading research studies like "Good to Great" and "What Really Works" have shown, companies that develop and maintain a clearly stated and focused team based business strategy are significantly more profitable and have much higher levels of employee satisfaction than those that don’t.
A business strategy is far more likely to be successfully implemented if the leaders and managers of the business team develop the plan themselves, NOT an external strategy consulting organization. Your team members know far more about your business and your industry than any outsider ever will. Perhaps even more importantly, people always perform best when their strategy, goals and behaviors come from within.
With this pilosophy in mind, Team Woks acts as a facilitator to help your leadership team develop their OWN game plan while orchestrating a sound, proven process that assists in idea generation, options, solutions and actions. During this process, we record your team’s insights, which allows them to operate at a higher level of strategic thinking. Getting your leadership team to work together to develop a team based strategic plan will result in significant buy-in, commitment and perhaps most importantly, the execution that is required to achieve your organization's strategic goals.
Investing a relatively modest amount of extremely important time to ensure your team breaks away from day-to-day business to engage in high-level reflective strategic thinking, is the hallmark of sound leadership.
Although every team and situation is different, generally, bringing your team together and applying a sound, disciplined regimen of an annual team off-site, and quarterly ½ day team planning updates, is sufficient to ensure focus, commitment and action.
In addition, leadership interviews and behavioral assessments - which may only require another day or two of management team time, is all that’s required to set and achieve a great game plan.
Each company we work with receives a customized process and program tailored to meet its budget and business needs in order to achieve exceptional results. Our process is highly flexible and adaptable to meet the specific needs of virtually any organization or team.
We guarantee 100% satisfaction. Our unique Team Works team strategic planning process is proven. We have successfully facilitated hundreds of strategic planning sessions with a wide variety of companies, cultures and organizations. We have worked with leading corporate organizations, entrepreneurial ventures, partnerships, associations, not-for-profits, government groups and strategic alliances.
Team Works uses a proprietary computer assisted process that enables your team to quickly and efficiently develop then capture the information throughout the team strategic planning process. This system allows your team to do twice the work in half the time. Your team creates the strategic plan in real time…IN THEIR OWN WORDS…without messy flipcharts or unclear and confusing notes.
We incorporate and design a variety of entertaining, insightful and relevant team building activities that add to the overall experience, while contributing to a great strategic planning process. Our unique brainstorming activities and processes spark your team’s creative thinking to unleash innovative solutions. We apply various parallel thinking processes to ensure that the team subsequently makes rational, logical and smart business decisions.
We have also incorporated some truly unique processes and techniques learned from the worlds of psychological programming, hypnosis and sports performance, that significantly increase the likelihood of integration of the plan into the subconscious minds and hearts of your team. We use these techniques to optimize the mastermind effect and team spirit required to build high performance teams and empower them to truly succeed. We can also deliver a truly unique Golf Team Building Activity that compliments your team’s strategic planning retreat.
In every organization, the most valuable asset is the leader and their team. Consider the entire annual compensation earned by your leadership team. How much would you be able to profit if you improved their capability, commitment and focused their energy by only a fractional amount? At Team Works, we help leaders and their teams drive results.
Business Teams The majority of our work has been with business teams of all shapes and sizes. As you can imagine, our work brings us into real life situations with a wide variety of leaders, leadership styles, organizational cultures and teams, all in various circumstances and markets. Fortunately, the experiences and insights gained from working with a wide variety of teams can be of great value to help you and your team to do the right thing, while saving time, money and avoiding making expensive mistakes.
We have worked with corporate leaders, middle management teams, skunk-works operations, entrepreneurial firms, technology ventures, family enterprises, partnerships, alliances, our client’s customers and more. We have also worked with companies in a wide variety of industries ranging from manufacturing, distribution, service, high-tech, marketing, design, broadcasting, entertainment, food, financial services, sports ventures and more.
Situations range from mature companies to start-up from high growth to turnaround and from performance improvement to revitalization and reinvigoration of leaders and their teams. We have worked with highly functioning, exceptional teams through to arguing, warring and totally dysfunctional teams and everything in between. Our experience in helping turnaround weak performing and failing teams into winners is one of our most satisfying activities.
The future of leadership is moving from a hierarchical to a collaborative style. Business leaders that recognize this evolution quickly comprehend that building inspired, motivated, and committed teams, are the leaders that will drive results for themselves and their organizations.
Partnerships Partnerships require a unique collaborative leadership approach. Professionals who operate in partnerships are teams of equals, each of whom have valuable expertise, insights and strengths to contribute to their organization. However, partnerships, by their very nature, do not always operate efficiently. Leaders of these organizations are continually challenged to drive initiatives, discipline their colleagues, and push for results, while maintaining the necessary level of collegiality and positive relationships required amongst partners.
Fortunately, our presence and process is exceptionally valuable in helping partnership leaders and teams to develop the vision, goals and actions that produce results. We have conducted sessions with various professional partnerships ranging from two to two hundred. In each instance, we've been able to obtain solid agreement on the strategic direction for the partnership, and achieve the necessary commitment to action that moves the partnership forward.
Most importantly, we do this in a positive, friendly, professional and collaborative manner that both engages talented professionals, and ensures that they bring the best of themselves to help the partnership to grow and succeed.
Associations (& Co-Operatives) Associations, be they volunteer or operated by professional staff, are groups of people who are aligned to achieve some common, mutual goals. Leaders of these organizations must be skilled diplomats, negotiators, marketers as well as trusted confidantes and advisors to their members and Boards.
We assist these leaders by providing a safe, positive and healthy environment to get the Board, volunteers, staff and members engaged, committed and working collaboratively to drive results. We also act as a safe “neutral” third party that can bring an unbiased perspective and offer solutions to delicate and sometimes conflicting situations. Most importantly, our process helps associations and their constituents get engaged, stay focused, achieve results and ensure an ongoing, positive approach for all participants.
Golf Clubs & Organizations The game of golf is a great gift. For those who participate in the game it offers recreation, relaxation, competition, exercise, camaraderie and entertainment. Golf is also a very philosophical and almost spiritual pursuit that has great learnings for any player, regardless of their skill level, proficiency, gender or age.
As a passionate advocate of the game, we are pleased to apply our unique team strategic planning services, leadership workshops and motivational speaking services to help the game that we love. We are pleased to have worked with many leaders and organizations that have an involvement in the game, ranging from beginning to elite players, club professionals, organization leaders, resorts, private golf clubs and any others who have share a passion or just a passing interest in the game.
In addition, we can incorporate some unique golf related team building activities, golf event speaking and other activities for charity and corporate events that apply the teachings from the game to help participants set and achieve their goals.