Healthy Teams

If you’ve ever been part of a team where team members perpetually struggle to get along and work well together, you know the impacts. Results suffer, and so do people. Business results matter, and to be frank, life is too short to spend 40+ hours per week banging your head against the wall with your team. Healthy teams don’t happen by accident, so don’t wait until your team is struggling to do the work. Teams need trust, relationship, shared vision, and an orientation toward results to operate at their best. Effective teams also set clear goals, roles, and priorities—always easier said than done.

The Approach

A team that gives deliberate attention to the way it operates as a human system is able to leverage team strengths effectively. Healthy teams know how to build trust, navigate conflict effectively, and communicate about responsibility and accountability. Respect and candor are not mutually exclusive, and transparency builds trust. Team engagements focus on gaining and delivering useful insights about team strengths and dynamics. We’ll continuously use those insights to inform the work we do together.

I work with teams in the following ways:

• Retreat facilitation

• Building trust

• Engaging in healthy conflict

• Establishing commitments

• Improving accountability

• Facilitating planning and decision making

• Leading change

• Succession planning

• Building successful culture initiatives

• Enhance leadership skills

 I partner with teams for both situational needs and long-term executive team development.