Team Development

Optimization solutions for work groups that want to exceed organizational goals

Farr's Team Development process takes team building to the next level, by developing custom solutions that optimize team performance.  Farr's team building process is for management and executive teams, who must meet the multi-faceted challenges of leadership. Farr helps teams gain the capacity to achieve goals, develop new products, creatively solve complex issues, manage time and deadlines, contain costs, and exceed customer expectations for quality and service.

Overview
Farr Associates provides a high-power catalyst for successful team building and transformation. Our involvement and the technology we contribute to a team's efforts to develop and implement strategic initiatives can accelerate your process, yielding earlier bottom-line results. Farr consultants bring to bear a considerable accumulation of learning and experience in helping teams become genuinely powerful and effective in achieving organizational outcomes. We use our technologies to help you design a team development/maintenance process that specifically fits your situation and your aspirations. We then facilitate the major events/activities in the process, providing an experienced outside force to help you realize the full power of your team and its teamwork.

Outcomes
Our experience tells us that a team cannot simply expect to become effective by working together. It can't happen automatically or in the "normal course of events."

Teams need to work at working together. That includes:

• Supporting an action plan to address organizational issues and the planning of major company initiatives.
• The ability to function optimally as a whole in the face of competition. Goals are better defined, more quickly executed, and fully achieved.
• Improving creativity and focus so knowledge is managed in a way that actually solves problems and produces results on time.
• Achieving better communication to serve as the key vehicle for improved responsiveness to both internal and external customers.
• Learning and practicing essential team-development techniques—elements like feedback, active listening, keeping team agreements, and collaborative problem solving, improved skills, decision making, and innovation.
• Check-pointing your team effectiveness on a regular basis- turnover reduces, profits grow, and market share is captured.

Because effective teamwork skills are critical to becoming a high impact organization, our solutions provide practical, hands-on experience to prepare participants to work more effectively on teams.  Because teams need time and practice to become high performing, the events are highly interactive, and coaching is provided at the workplace if needed.  A critical component of the success of teams is having a clear purpose and framework of operations, so the event and accompanying consulting time will also focus on the alignment of the team to strategic initiatives. 

 

 

Power struggles, defensive behaviors, games, politics, or simply poor communication and listening skills, can hit the bottom line hard when team performance is critical to an organization.

What if you could remove these costly behaviors from your work groups?  What if people understood where others were coming from, and were candid with each other about their concerns?

At Farr, we provide the tools and ground work for teams to have open and constructive communication, that not only helps remove disruptive behaviors, but build new ones that can catapult work-group productivity.

What would 20% more productivity mean each year?  Or, even just 10%? 

10% more productivity, means getting product-to- market 24 business days faster each year.

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“I already had an exceptional team. Now I have a team that is flat out extraordinary.

This is one of the top investments we made this year.”

Ray Gogel, Vice President of Client Services, Xcel Energy / IBM Global Services Division

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