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TEAM BUILDING MORE and more companies see the need to get things done with people, rather than through people. Thus, as they move toward people-centered functionality (work teams, cross-departmental teams, customer-supplier teams, etc.) they are giving greater emphasis to influence, rather than linear or positional status. But in our experience, too many individuals do not feel part of a team. Some feel alienated from colleagues and from the organisation that employs them. Many are in passive resistance. Cynicism is rife. The emphasis in PiB Team Building programs begins with the assumption that business cannot be conducted without THE HUMAN FACTOR – not humans themselves, since that is self-evident – but one fundamental premise: that state of mind either supports or negates the effectiveness the team. Indeed, through state of mind we see the reality - the culture of the team, for good or ill. And the culture is expressed through the level of healthy functioning [and ultimately through viability and profit] that stamps the business for what it is. THE BUSINESS OF TEAM BUILDING cannot be tackled lightly if it is to be embraced and owned throughout the organisation. Identifying team and individual behaviours is only the beginning... In late March 2008, PiB joined forces with Team Management Systems to bring the widely acclaimed Margerison/McCann Team Management Profile™ (TMP) instrument to our clients. TMP was developed in Australia and is widely used throughout Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Asia and Europe in both the public and private sectors. Worldwide, more than one million people have completed the TMP, in more than 160 countries. TMP is a small piece of the puzzle - a useful tool in the overall PiB coaching framework, and a building block for understanding the attitudes, thought patterns, and habits that frustrate even the best of relationships. We all have different ways of seeing things. But for all our acceptance of that simple fact, and our determination to be seen as objective, objectivity is very rarely the case. Our investment in ourselves and our place in the world, our knowledge and our 'truth' as we see it, prevents objectivity. In essence, we sabotage our ability to relate well, create and develop new approaches, act on the information we gather, make sound decisions and organise ourselves into colleagial and productive teams. |
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PiB & TEAM MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (pdf) To learn more about PiB's Fundamental coaching approach, download
THE FUNDAMENTAL COACHING FRAMEWORK [pdf] |