CLOE: Strategy to Reality

Team & Partnership Alignment and Development Workshops

During a workshop we create the conditions that demonstrate the pattern of team development below.

After Tuckman & Jensen 1977 • © CLOE 2007

We demonstrate the three key characteristics that differentiate a team from a group: leadership, a defined task and reason for being, and discipline. In particular we highlight the main reasons for less than optimal performance:

Strategic plans which substitute ‘policy’ for strategic objectives and which lack a clear mission, measures of success and defined, delegated tasks (with accounable owners) the attainment of which collectively enable the mission to be achieved.
Confusion about vision and mission, policy, strategy and tactics, objectives and tasks.
Lack of clarity about the aim and purpose of a plan and subsequent lack of buy-in and engagement – especially in multi-organization partnerships
Inability to understand the strategy and align thought, decisions and actions to it
Ineffective communication – poor cascade of plans and decisions and lack of 2 way feedback
Unstructured meetings, lack of follow through and wasted time and effort
Refusal to subordinate personal interests to the greater good, fear of and resistance to change

Depending upon what stage your team is in, we then might then employ our ACE concept and planning methodology to create the clarity that is needed to get past the storming phase at work; or we might examine other team dynamics and patterns of behaviour at work. In multi-organization partnerships particularly, we find that creating real clarity of the mission (and the dynamic of the process used in creating that) and the subsequent ‘ownership’ and understandnig that is created about leadership and accountability, is the key to more effective partnership service delivery.

Depending upon your needs, our psychologists and coaches may work with a range of profiling tools to develop stronger and more effective working relationships and interpersonal communication within the team. Team development programmes may be based in the classroom, at work on the job or in more ‘adventurous’ settings.