Team Building Skill Builder

Success in any organisation today rests heavily upon how well its teams perform. A champion team will usually beat a team of champions – but how do you create a champion team? Effective teams do not simply 'happen'. They have to be built.

For the purposes of this Skill Builder, a team is defined as a group of between three and twenty people. Usually the team exists around a common purpose or goal in the way that it works or performs. The team also has to see itself as (and behave like) a team by meeting and sharing experiences regularly.

Team building can be applied to an old or new team, a temporary or a permanent team, or even a team formed specifically to achieve one simple goal in a very short time frame. In every case, the team needs to be built step-by-step to ensure that it performs to its highest potential through each of stages of team development.

The Team Building Skill Builder covers:

1. Direction - developing mission, vision and strategy
2. Values - finding and building on common beliefs
3. Roles - conducting a skill audit
4. Groundrules - implementing a 'charter' to guard behaviour
5. Progress - determining and assessing performance indicators
6. Outcomes - finding out if goals were achieved and lessons learned

What are Skill Builders?

These short, sharp and succinct resources provide best practice thinking on a range of key topics and are currently available in 35 titles. Skill Builders are 12 page black and white booklets printed on 140gsm paper and hole-punched for easy insertion into a 3-ring binder. They are designed to provide a practical method for improving skills and focus on explaining the main steps in the process. On the back page of each booklet, a template illustrates how the process fits together for practical and immediate application.

What can Skill Builders be used for?

• Staff meetings or other group gatherings where time is limited and you want to discuss a specific skill or topic
• Pre-course work (to provide a brief and practical introduction to a topic)
• One-on-one or group coaching
• Self development
• Any other situation where a practical best practice process is required and time is limited