Team consulting

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Would you like to have a team that unleashes its full potential—far beyond the sum of its individual members?

Teams are developing their own dynamics. The best way to shape these dynamics is to consciously take time for reflection, orientation, and joint progress. Such breaks create spaces in which teams gain clarity, grow, and take their collaboration to a next level.

For example, if you ...

  • are feeling that something is wrong in your team in terms of relationships and work,
  • are observing unproductive tensions and unfavorable group dynamics,
  • want to clarify lines of conflict in order to use conflicts productively,
  • want to develop a healthier approach to mistakes and create a clear distribution of roles and tasks,
  • want to strengthen team performance within the organisation,
  • are having a newly formed team that wants to come together,
  • are planning to establish a different way of working (e.g., agile working),
  • want to learn how to deal with new tasks, requirements, or conditions within the team, e.g., as a result of company-wide restructuring,
  • are facing the dissolution of your team and want to reorganise it into other structures,

then you will find our tailored support like ...

Team(development) workshops

i.e., accompanying the team (more than the sum of its parts = team members) in changing its behavior and communication patterns from a previous state to a new state.

Team(development) workshops can be supplemented with targeted conflict resolution or individual counseling.

Trainings

i.e., clarifying and practicing new skills and competencies. The focus is not only on building knowledge but, in particular, on transferring it into everyday working life.

Training can be delivered as standalone sessions or embedded in organisational development.

If you'll request our collaboration, you can expect ...

  • advice on whether team development or training is the right approach for you and, if not, what alternatives are available,

  • clarification of roles and tasks distribution within the team,

  • clarification of the role and purpose of the team within the organisation,

  • not a pleasant feel-good event, but a reflective balancing act between differentiation (from the organisation) and adaptation (to the organisation in service of task fulfillment), which ensures everyone's active involvement,

  • a productive exchange within the team that is stimulated, accompanied, guided, and de-escalated — whatever is necessary to clarify one's own patterns, their purpose and significance, and the balance between task fulfillment on a factual level and emotional interaction,

  • raising awareness of behavioral patterns ("What are we doing? What are we avoiding?") with an understanding of group dynamics as a natural expression of dynamic collaboration,

  • navigating through phases of necessary instability (the old is gone/disappearing, the new is not yet there/is being built) towards new functional stability that meets the new requirements and circumstances,

  • promoting anti-fragility (i.e., not only withstanding stress and demands, but also being able to deal with them productively and, if necessary, overcoming setbacks and growing from them),

  • identifying and combining the strengths of team members,

  • developing and expanding skills to manage complexity more effectively.