The world changes very rapidly and on an unprecedented scale. Pioneering technological developments, climate change, globalization, population growth and agedness create a continuously changing reality, impacting organizations in a fundamental way. Now, more than ever, professionals need to come together to mutually define and create the way forward. While building teams, the groups of individual professionals working together towards a common goal, was always an important part in organisational development, it has become crucial. For teams ready to commit to fundamental development, Source Leadership offers a tailormade process in which we work on the three aspects of a team:

• The personal (‘I’); by creating awareness of your personality and development of those traits that are currently counterproductive, we help team members grow awareness on their individual role in the team’s situation.
• The interpersonal (‘WE’); by creating awareness on the interaction between team members and the experimenting with new behaviour, we help to decrease counterproductive behaviour and find synergies.
• The team task/goal (‘IT’); by assisting the team in defining the common goal on a strategic and tactical level, and by aligning, evaluating, and correcting its efforts over a period of time, we help the team mature.

The team development process

A team development process begins with an orientation phase consisting of personal interviews with all team members to gather observations and feedback on individual and team dynamics. In a feedback session with the team, we then define the first steps of the development process. As development is not a quick fix, the process involves several small steps over a longer period needed to improve the functioning of the team. Trust is the discerning element in any team. It provides the fundament for differences to surface, for healthy confrontational dialogues, for creating shared commitments, for holding each other accountable, all prerequisites for creating focus on shared results and the common goal. A team which is unable to build trust will fail to perform.