Team Solutions - Leveraging ideas and generating effective solutions
New corporate strategies. Reorganisation, cost containment, and changes to go-to-market strategy. The people in your organization face conflict-producing organizational changes like these every day.
Faced with these tough issues, managers and individual contributors charged with leading change, reinforced by past successes and their personal values, often respond poorly:
- Some rail against the change siding with those who also believe it one step too far.
- Others play the "get along by going along," game putting too much emphasis on team harmony rather than real change.
- And some become dictators, they conceive the solution alone and push it onto the team, resulting in unproductive, emotional resistance.
In any of these cases, the results are the same: teams function poorly, quality drops, innovation disappears, and productivity suffers.
The challenge is clear: to provide individuals and teams with a new, more constructed approach to developing solutions for issues generated by the need to change. The desired outcome is teams learning to be successfully at developing collaborative team solutions that are creative, innovative and executable.
That's what Mgl’s Team Solutions Model® delivers:
- Team Solutions Model®: a powerful model that provides managers with a framework to facilitate their team through a solution development process. The model shows the team how to focus their attention collectively on examining each change problem. It teaches the team to dissect each issue, accumulate the teams collective knowledge and generate creatives options, contingencies and action plans.
- DUET®: is an online tool that gives individual team members feedback about their personal values and how they approach work and problem solving. This allows the team to understand their differences and develop complementary working process as well as leveraging individual strengths.
What's in it for your organisation...
When Team Solutions Model® is adopted, your managers of managers will make a significant productivity break through:
More team innovation and creativity
Managers realise the power of their teams and understand how to delegate and empower teams to develop their solutions. DUET® enables Team members collaborate more effectively, maintain higher levels of mutual esteem, share (rather than protect) information, and work together to generate better business solutions.
Higher levels on internal and external customer satisfaction
DUET® helps team member leverage diversity of ideas and personal styles, the results in improved communications allowing the team to develop a richer understanding of a problem, creating approaches that often exceed expectations.
Lower costs, higher productivity
When Team members learn how to identify new and creative ways to achieve goals, solve problems and meet schedules , the result is improved engagement and confidence which research has proven improves operating income and share-price.
Want to Improve Collaboration and Innovation on Your Teams?
When your teams collaborate more effectively, the results ca n be dramatic: more innovation, increased organizational performance, and higher levels of customer service, quality, and profitability.
Tangible business returns?
Improved team engagement delivers:
- 2009 - 47% higher total returns to shareholders over the last five years
- 2009 - 51% lower turnover rates with engaged employees (Gallup Organisation)
- 2008 - More engaged workers = more operating income and earnings - Firms with the highest percentage of engaged employees collectively increased operating income 19% and earnings per share 28% year to year (Towers Perrin)