Building Extraordinary Teams
How can you ensure that teams are working at their best?
Do team members have the opportunity to think about how they work as both individuals and as a team?
Are team members encouraged to give feedback to each other and openly discuss issues or proposed changes?
Key to becoming part of an extraordinary team is for individuals to know themselves first – what strengths and preferred ways of working can each member offer to the team? M.J. Consulting use both Belbin team types and the MBTI to help individuals understand their uniqueness, the qualities they can bring to a team and the challenges and differences they may face.
It is only when individuals understand themselves that work can be done to improve the performance of the team from OK to extraordinary.
The key areas for developing extraordinary teams include:
Team Health Check
Team leaders and team members are asked to review how the team operates across a number of areas ranging from planning and communication to dealing with change and the role of the team leader.
Results from the health-check are used to identify areas where the team need to concentrate more effort and as the basis of any development actions.
The use of questionnaires will also allow us to highlight any difference in viewpoints of team members and team leaders and explore how these need to be recognized and addressed to improve team spirit and performance.
Team Building Workshops
We offer a range of team building workshops to help newly formed teams and team development workshops for established teams and teams with specific issues. By working in partnership with you we ensure that our team programmes are both fun and meaningful.
Team members are asked to review their own way of working and consider those of their colleagues.
Teams share real work issues and challenge these through activity based learning.
We look at what is happening now and what needs to be different to raise their performance, not as individuals, but as a team.
What Makes a Successful Team?
Linked to the team health-check, we look at what behaviours and actions make a successful team.
Team members are asked to honestly rate their own performance as individuals and as a team against the key behaviours.
We will help teams to identify what they need to do differently and challenge the way things are done now. Teams will produce their own contracts for change and agree how they will give feedback on good/unacceptable examples of team work.
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Developing Management Potential
How can you ensure managers have the necessary skills to manage their teams?
Do you help your staff take that big step from team member to manager?
Do you support your staff by providing regular feedback on performance and coaching opportunities?
We can provide a range of both off the shelf and tailored development programmes for managers at all levels. We can introduce them to basic management skills and help them to develop those skills over time by helping you to establish a coaching and feedback environment. For more experienced managers we offer a range of workshops to provide them with new skills or an opportunity to refresh existing skills and knowledge.
The key areas for developing managers include:
Gettind Started In Management
Newly appointed managers or those seen to have potential are given the opportunity to explore what management means and how to make the transition.
An introduction to a range of basic management skills using a variety of learning methods to help individuals identify their strengths and areas in need of development.
Participants use development plans to ensure they focus on small, specific steps to improve their own performance.
Structured Management Development Programmes
A range of Development Workshops are available to cover Management skills. These can all be tailored to your company needs or designed specifically for you.
All workshops build on skills and use linked theories and themes to ensure structured and continuous development.
We use a variety of self diagnostic tools to allow individuals to identify and highlight their own strengths and preferences.
Skills Audit And Assessment Programmes
Individuals are asked complete skills audits to identify areas where they are performing well and areas where they could do better.
Skills audits can be competed by members of the team to provide a more detailed picture of performance and to give the individual more specific feedback.
Results of audits are used as the basis for personal development programmes for both individuals and groups.
Coaching And Developing Staff
Workshops on coaching and developing team members are provided in order to introduce the skills required to be an effective coach.
We will work with you to develop skills in the workplace in real coaching situations and provide coaching and feedback to managers.
Managers will be asked to think creatively about development opportunities for both themselves and their team members.
Developing A Mentoring Culture
Many successful managers admit to the fact that having a mentor helps them develop their own management skills and style.
Having an environment where managers can identify role models and use them as mentors reinforces a positive approach to development.
We will work with you to identify managers who exhibit the style and behaviour you want to encourage and help you to build a network that ensures that mentoring is seen as “the way things are done around here”.
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Discovering New And Hidden Talent
How well do you know the strengths and attributes of the people in your team?
What techniques are in place for assessing an individual’s aptitude for more senior roles?
How confident are you about the quality and rigour of the information used for succession planning?
Whether looking for new team members or assessing the potential of existing employees, a carefully designed Assessment Centre will provide the means to fairly and accurately measure their performance across a range of activities using specific and measurable criteria.
Discovering New Talent
MJC will work with your competencies / criteria to design a series of structured activities that may include group work, 1 – 1 discussion, analysis and interview.
We are able to offer psychometric / aptitude testing as appropriate.
End of event review and selection session.
MJC have experience in the coordination of large and small-scale recruitment events. Our consultants are able to advise on best practise, screening methods, resourcing issues and feedback techniques.
Discovering Hidden Talent
We will design challenging activities to your own competences / criteria at a level above those attending.
Our centres are focused on career development and candidates will consider future options, challenge personal barriers and bring together the findings of the centre.
A MJC consultant supports the Assessor team in the production of end of event reviews, analysis and end of centre reports.
MJC deliver detailed candidate performance profiles that will identify performance gaps between current abilities and more senior positions.
Developing Assessment Skills
MJC are able to run workshops or discussion groups with inexperienced assessors to develop their assessment skills.
Skills for assessors include observation, competency mapping, analysis and feedback.
We provide safe and realistic opportunities for trainee assessors to practice their skills and receive feedback on their own performance.
Developing Competency Frameworks
MJC have experience in the creation of multi level competency behavioural frameworks.
We offer 1 – 1 coaching or working groups to ensure assessment criteria include behavioural descriptors / outcomes.
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Growing Leadership Capabilities
How do you get your managers to recognize the important difference between management and leadership?
Do you have individuals who are managers due to their job title as opposed to fully effective leaders who people choose to follow?
Do you have leaders who inspire their teams, encourage them to try out new ideas, allow them to grow and flourish in a supportive environment, praise team members consistently for work well done and set a good example of behavior and standards?
Our individually tailored programmes will help your managers to identify their own leadership qualities:
What areas need to be improved?
What can they really do to modify their own behavior to improve their team’s performance?
Programmes are developed to include:
360° Feedback
360 degree feedback allows leaders to find out how their own manager, peer group and direct reports rate their leadership capability.
In addition to scores from questionnaires, specific behaviors provide quality examples of what individuals do well and what team members would like them to do differently.
Discussions on key areas allow leaders to identify actions for improvement.
Action Planning
Individuals will be asked to produce an action plan to identify what they will do differently.
We will focus on the small changes that will make ‘extraordinary’ differences.
Line managers and team members will be encouraged to be part of the review process.
Continuous Feedback
Managers are encouraged to share their feedback with their team members.
Managers will explain their action plans to their teams and the behaviors they are working on.
Managers can agree how feedback will be given against action plans.
Group Workshops
Participants are encouraged to share their feedback and action plans.
A range of experiential activities is used to allow participants to explore different aspects of leadership.
It is an opportunity to share experiences and learn from other leaders.
Individual Coaching
Using the 360 feedback and individuals own views, leaders work with one of our consultants to explore their performance and what they could do differently.
Additional information can be used as necessary, using tools such as MBTI & 16PF.
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Turning Individuals Into Stars
How confident are your employees about their strengths and development areas?
How clear are individuals about the value they bring to your organisation?
What opportunities exist for your employees to shine within your business?
MJC will work with you to build a range of development options for your staff, establish creative performance assessment techniques and create a culture of shared values and drive for improvement.
Our solutions :
Understanding Ourselves
We offer 16PF and MBTI personality testing to help individuals more fully understand their own personalities and the impact of these on others.
Our consultants work with staff members to explore perceived barriers to performance and generate development options.
We use 360 degree feedback to work with individuals to compare their perception of performance with that of fellow team members.
Development Solutions
MJC offer an extensive choice of tailored workshops to meet a wide range of individual development needs.
Workshops will be tailored to meet your needs or can be designed specially for you to meet needs that are specific to your team/organisation.
MJC work closely with organisations to create development solutions that utilise opportunities both in and outside the business.
Performance Management
Through either 1 – 1 coaching or workshops managers learn how to effectively manage performance issues, set objectives and provide future focused feedback.
Individuals are encouraged to seek/welcome all types of feedback and manage its impact.
Our aim is to enable individuals to recognise Performance Management as an integral part of the management role as opposed to an annual exercise to identify good/poor performance.
Coaching / Mentoring
MJC offer 1 – 1coaching using a range of empowering/direct techniques to help individuals focus on future success.
Our Coaching for Success programmes enable managers to learn techniques that can be used successfully in business.
Our mentoring programmes provide a supportive network for learning within business. We are able to bring together individuals to form performance partnerships that aid development for both parties.
Vision and Values
For individuals to be able to identify their opportunities for growth within an organisation a clear infrastructure of values and vision needs to be in place.
Among other techniques MJC use customer/employee focus groups and management forums to inform the creation of a meaningful set of values.
Team activities can be designed to help individuals assess the part they have to play in the delivery of the values and to measure their ongoing performance.
We have coached leaders both in how to create inspiring and powerful visions that can be shared across the business and how to communicate its message in a consistent manner.
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