A strong team is built on more than talent alone. Our Team Development programs help organizations strengthen communication, build trust, align around shared goals, and leverage individual strengths to create collaborative, high-performing teams that achieve lasting results.
Why Invest in Team Development?
The productivity and harmony of teams are highly dependent on having a clear strategy, positive group dynamics, and effective leadership. Without this foundation, teams can struggle to communicate, collaborate, and perform at their best.
At Elevated Talent, our team development programs in Vancouver help teams feel empowered, synchronize their efforts, and deliver better results. Based on the Gallup strength-based development approach, we help team members understand and leverage their individual talents while building stronger relationships and more effective ways of working together.
Organizations that Receive Training Report
7% - 23%
Higher Employee Engagement
8% - 18%
Increased Performance
20% - 73%
Lower Attrition
*Gallup research
What Makes a Team High-Performing?
In our team development engagements, we draw on A Model of Team Success as a framework for building high-performing teams. Teams function best when they have a common purpose and a strong foundation of connection, communication, collaboration, and celebration.
Our team development programs help teams build these foundations while creating a deeper understanding of individual strengths and how they can be leveraged to achieve shared goals.
A Model of Team Success
To maximize team performance, every team member must:
Connection
Be CONNECTED to a COMMON PURPOSE
Communication
COMMUNICATE with everyone effectively
Collaboration
COLLABORATE to find the best, most effective methods to work together and leverage team’s resources
Celebration
CELEBRATE individual strengths and team successes
What's Included in Our Team Development Programs?
1. Half-Day Session
The Building High-Performing Teams with StrengthsFinder, the half-day session package includes:
- Preparatory and ongoing communication with participants.
- 30-minute calls with individual team members to discuss each member’s StrengthsFinder results.
A Half-Day Workshop, Where Team Members:
- Get to know each other better through ice-breaker exercises.
- Develop awareness about each team member’s strengths and blind spots.
- Discuss strategies to leverage one another’s strengths to become more effective.
- Develop an understanding about the team’s collective strengths, potential blind spots and friction points, and ways to work more effectively under pressure (see an example, Team Strengths DNA chart below).
- A designated coach to deliver ongoing support, communication, and workshop facilitation.
- A debrief and support after the program’s completion.
2. Full-Day Session
The Building High-Performing Teams with StrengthsFinder, the full-day package includes everything noted in the half-day package plus a facilitated discussion to cover the following critical topics related to elements described in A Model of Team Success:
- What are our organizational values, and how do we practice them on a day-to-day basis?
- What are the organizational vision and mission?
- How do we hold each other accountable?
- How do we deal with failure and disappointments?
- How do we give each other feedback?
- How do we best communicate with each other? How about when under pressure?
- How do we share information?
- How do we make decisions?
- How do we acknowledge each other and celebrate wins?
The key topics will be reviewed and finalized with you.
What’s Our Process?
Building high-performing teams with StrengthsFinder is a collaborative process designed around your team’s unique goals, dynamics, and organizational context. While every engagement is customized, our team development process typically involves the following activities:
Step 1
Discovery calls with participants before the program to gather data and understand the context of your organization.
Step 2
30-minute debrief of StrengthsFinder results with each team member to discuss strength and development areas.
Step 3
A half-day or full-day session, delivered in-person or virtually, explores the team’s diverse talents and develops a foundation for high performance. Based on A Model of Team Success, we identify the team’s shared purpose and build connection, communication, collaboration, and celebration.
Step 4
A Q&A debrief, and post-program support is offered to your team to address inquiries and feedback.
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