Team Development

Purposeful Teams©

Awakening the power of teams

The Purposeful Teams© program is grounded in the belief that clarity of purpose combined with a personal
(individual) and shared (team) commitment to that purpose is the most powerful catalyst for effective team performance.

Many team development programmes focus too heavily on task or specific behavioural aspects of team development. By contrast the Purposeful Teams© program anchors the team solidly within its organisational context and its organisational mandate, ensuring that the skills and experience of every team member can rapidly be brought to life. As such the program is relevant and applicable to natural task or project teams at every level of the organisation.


Purposeful Teams© structure

The program consists of a two-day workshop followed by two half-day review processes, all of which is facilitated by a People Axis facilitated.

The following key team dimensions are explored through facilitated conversations in which the team members provide the content and facilitator provides the background material and the process facilitation.

Connecting
Organisational mandate, team purpose in the system context, owning and connecting to purpose

Challenging
Understanding past and present, current state, team habits

Visioning
Personal commitment to purpose, envisioning the future state, statement of intent

Committing
Defining task milestones, team commitments and individual development plans

Learning
Reviewing team progress, applying team learning, challenges – feedback and coaching

Sustaining
Team sustainability, success stories, challenges and solutions, sustaining commitments


The program includes activities and dialogue that work in the realms of:

Knowing
 Knowing
Builds knowledge of the elements of team purpose and team work.
Being Being
Prompts values-based reflection on the elements of team purpose and team work
Doing Doing
Encourages behavioural changes to improve

Each conversation follows a set process. The team members review the team dimensions, examine attitudes and beliefs for the team and the organisation, review behaviours and set out development plans for the individuals and team.

Purposeful Teams© offers benefits at the individual, team and organisational level

Learning outcomes for individuals in the Purposeful Teams© intervention:

  • Team members embrace alignment to purpose as a driver of performance.
  • Team members renew their focus on important organisational objectives and achieve clarity of purpose.
  • Team members identify and work towards key milestones to achieve their purpose.
  • Team members integrate task, relationship and process for high performance.
  • Team members engage in meaningful conversations and create action plans to accelerate their effectiveness.
  • Individual and team commitments are formed and put into action.
Business benefits of the Purposeful Teams© intervention:

  • Purposeful Teams© are high-performing, effective and deliver rapid results for the organisation.
  • Purposeful Teams© implement appropriate execution strategies and action plans to deliver strategic objectives.
  • The Purposeful Teams© intervention averts potentially derailing team process and relationship issues.


To learn more about the Purposeful Teams© intervention please contact Tania on e-mail info@peopleaxis.com.ay or call (03) 9894 2805.


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