Skills   Team- & section developement

Teams, departments, sections – all under development?

"Team": the buzzword for tedious palaver and delayed decisions?

We encourage teams to stand dissent, to appreciate individualism and diversity, where they fertilise processes and results. Creativity and hard work on the way to consensus should not be sacrificed to all-too quick decisions.

We support teams and sections to reach qualified decisions by efficient discussions. There has to be a good balance between caring for matter and people and a determined pace.

Good teams do not only make better decisions. Their members infect each other with their motivation – which gets them into a persistent fever until the goal is reached.

But be careful: not any time a team does not live up to requirements or potential, "the team" itself has to and is able to develop – first, we tend to think of horizontal co-operation, of self-control. The second look often reveals the management, leadership to be the weak spot.

Then this is where we have to start from. This might be within the context of a team development format – but quite a few requests for team development have turned into a coaching of the manager.

Good old teamwork increasingly has to develop under special conditions as well:
for example after "mergers & acquisitions": In these cases, but also after other re-organisations requiring the consolidation of teams, people with completely different cultural backgrounds are confronted with each other.

And this is often a double whammy:
Two German companies – and often enough this even applies to two locations of one enterprise – represent biotopes so different from each other that you first have to learn to get ahead effectively without any misunderstandings, frictions and irritations. “Trial and Error” is often a long and expensive process.
And if on top of that different national cultures come into play in international teams ...
Often enough a high price has been paid for neglecting this dimension. Too often trying has meant the end.
Inter-cultural training e.g. helps to see these differences and to treat them sensitively.

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