“The single most untapped competitive advantage is teamwork.” - Patrick Lencioni

Team Building

Are you a senior leader who wants your team to:

  • Trust one another?

  • Engage in constructive conflict around ideas vs. destructive conflict about personalities?

  • Commit to decisions?

  • Hold one another accountable?

  • Focus on achieving collective results?

Are you an HR executive who is trying to help your organization’s managers:

  • Get off to a strong start with new teams?

  • Create teams that value and fully utilize its members strengths and differences?

  • Address unproductive and/or toxic behaviors among a team?

Team building is a process, and we can help!

Holmes Street Leadership has a variety of solutions, such as:

  • A new manager-team “quick start” facilitation to clarify expectations, identify desired norms and create alignment for moving forward together;

  • A workshop where team members learn about their own and each others’ communication styles and then identify specific strategies for communicating more effectively; and

  • A longer term assessment-driven process to directly address areas of trust, conflict, commitment, accountability and results. 

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“Team building” becomes “team coaching” when there is a longer term, facilitated coaching process will help the team practice new skills and ways of being with each other and their stakeholders.

What Clients Say

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  • The department now has direction and a structure by which to move forward.

    The significant impact to me was the fact that the team now knows who they are as a department and have a much better understanding of who their team members are within the various teams.

    — Senior Manager

  • What I found really useful was that it provided our group a chance to reflect and provide feedback regarding changes that they would like to see in the lab.

    It was a first to see as many people engaged in the process. It gave me hope. The session showed the group was diverse and that we could all learn to work with each other’s styles without completely changing who we are. All members of the team will be more aware of the collective strengths and weaknesses as a group and using the synopsis of each style we can work to modify how we communicate with someone that has a different communication style.

    — Participant of an intact work group, working on communication and trust issues

  • I valued everything! Really… Too much to say in one breath.

    But my top two are:

    1. Not letting anyone off the hook if there was a sticky feeling in the room or during discussion.

    2. Denise’s unbiased approach towards everyone.

    — Individual contributor in team mediation session

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