Team Effectiveness
Build cohesive, high-performing teams through coaching and consulting designed to strengthen how your people work together. Our organizational psychologists help you understand the dynamics of teams at any level, from front-line to executive leadership, then target and support the areas that move team performance forward.
Development shaped around your team.
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Grounded in a needs assessment or diagnostic, we identify the unique needs of your team before targeting any development, so the work fits the team in front of us.
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Evidence-based strategies drawn from organizational psychology and business research and practice, aimed at real gains in performance and productivity.
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Built to last, we align individual aspirations with the team's vision, put accountability in place, and provide ongoing support that makes growth sustainable.
Why team effectiveness drives growth.
When a team works well together, the effects show up everywhere. Focused team development helps you:
- Align the team around a shared vision, mission, and goals.
- Increase productivity and efficiency.
- Strengthen innovation and creativity.
- Improve working relationships and trust between team members and leadership.
- Build team engagement and morale.
- Strengthen communication, collaboration, and conflict resolution.
- Establish clear responsibilities and accountability.
- Facilitate the creation of strong team charters and norms to help the team align on and move toward a common purpose.
Tailored team effectiveness solutions.
Every team is different, so we draw on a range of assessments, team coaching, and facilitated development sessions, matched to what your team needs:
- Team Health Diagnostic: an assessment of your team's health and functioning, followed by a targeted debrief and a team action plan for how to improve.
- Team Charter Development: a facilitated process to define the expectations and norms for how your team works together, resulting in a shared charter that brings the team to the next level.
- Team Performance Coaching: coaching sessions that target specific areas for development, including communication, conflict resolution, and collaboration.
- Team Development Sessions: sometimes called teambuilding, these create a shared understanding of team dynamics, personalities, and work styles so people communicate and collaborate more effectively.
- Emergenetics Meeting of the Minds: using our Emergenetics certification, teams complete a brain-based assessment of thinking and behavioural styles and an engaging debrief that enhances team communication and effectiveness.
Not sure where to start? We'll begin by understanding the roles, strengths, and challenges within your team, then recommend the mix of assessment, team coaching, and facilitated development sessions best suited to its growth.
Frequently asked questions.
Team effectiveness is the ability of a group or team of people to work together successfully to achieve shared goals. While it sounds simple, it's not always easy to operate in such a cohesive and collaborative way. Facilitation and coaching with teams helps to increase performance by working on strategies to improve team effectiveness. These powerful strategies drive productivity, foster innovation, enhance communication, and improve other areas of team functioning that require attention.
A team effectiveness assessment or health diagnostic is a great way to determine the functioning of a team across key performance areas, such as goal alignment, communication, decision-making, and conflict management. Once an assessment of the team is completed, these insights help to identify strengths and areas for improvement that can be leveraged to enhance overall team performance and engagement.
Focusing on and improving the dynamics of teams is crucial for organizational success. Team effectiveness training and coaching helps address a variety of needs from improving collaboration, increasing employee engagement, fostering trust, and building stronger communication. When teams are operating at their best not only does it lead to higher productivity and cohesion, but ultimately better performance and business outcomes.
There are many ways that team effectiveness can be improved and, because the needs of each individual team are unique, we've developed a range of solutions to best support the effectiveness of your team. This process often begins with understanding roles and responsibilities and identifying the diverse strengths and challenges that team members face either individually or as a group. From there, we can offer assessments, training, and coaching designed to support team growth and success.
Birchwood offers a full suite of collaborative and customized strategies for addressing the unique needs of your team. Our experienced coaches and consultants personalize solutions that are steeped in organizational psychology knowledge to create sustainable improvements in team collaboration and performance.
Where we work
We work with teams in person in Calgary and Toronto, and virtually with organizations across Canada, from Vancouver to Halifax.
Many of our workshops can also be adapted for teams. Explore Training and Workshop Facilitation
Bring your team to its next level.
Reach out today to talk through your team's needs, or to ask about other training options. We'll recommend the right place to start.