Team Launch Workshop
Create and launch real teams on real missions
in this intensive,
comprehensive 5-day workshop.
Workshop Purpose
Teams learn teamwork doing the team's work
A small group of people facing a challenge, with an important
mission to accomplish, with professional training and coaching, and
well aware of the threats and opportunities they face will form into
a team in the course of doing their work.
This workshop helps people do that more quickly. It helps them
avoid forming bad habits that would limit their performance. It
helps them to produce a high-quality project plan in a short time
with a very strong commitment to the successful execution of the plan.
Coaches With Life Experience and Professional Experience
DeltaNet applies seasoned veterans with decades of experience
in the business world to train and coach teams. It's a novel concept:
Take people who have already experienced a successful career, team them
with a social psychologist to add the human perspective, and put them
to work training and coaching the rising stars.
It's hard to beat.
Synopsis of the Team Launch Workshop
Team Launch is a 5-day workshop. It is designed to form a team committed
to a specific mission, and to guide the team through its formation
and project planning. Team Launch uses a 3-stage process: Preparation,
Primary Team Training, and Mission Planning.
Stage 1: Preparation
In advance of the first team meeting, DeltaNet consultants work
with the various people in the client organization to help develop
the Team Challenge. A well-constructed Team Challenge is both
difficult to achieve and worthwhile. It establishes the
expectations of the team over the long haul, and it sets
the overall constraints within which the team will be expected
to work. The Team Challenge is the cause that the team will
rally around.
The first use of the Team Challenge is to recruit team members.
A well-constructed challenge will be exciting and motivating
to prospective team members.
DeltaNet often helps the client organization to recruit and
select team members. The team roster must represent all the
significant stakeholder groups, those that will affect or will
be affected by the team's work product. And the roster must
include a broad diversity of functional skills, experience and
individual temperaments.
DeltaNet consultants also advises management on the development
of the initial framework for a working environment that both
nurtures the fledgling team and holds the team accountable.
Stage 2: Primary Team Training
Primary Team Training builds a common knowledge base among the
team members and provides initial development of team skills and
processes. It is facilitated by two DeltaNet consultants in an
intensive 2-day session, usually the first 2 days of a 5-day
workshop.
The Primary Team Training Module gives the team members:
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A common understanding of the primary rational process
and interpersonal skills that teams need to perform effectively.
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Practice in using rational processes and interpersonal skills
to solve a controlled, simulated problem.
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A benchmark evaluation of the team's performance and behavioral
style compared with hundreds of other teams that have run
the same simulation.
The evaluation also guides the selection and content of further
training to strengthen the weaknesses discovered during the simulation.
At the end of Primary Team Training, team members are aware of the
skills they have, the skills they need to improve to work together,
more productively. They will have practiced those skills in a
structured problem-solving situation, and they are ready to continue
to develop their new skills while doing the team's real work.
Stage 3: Mission Planning
The Mission Planning Module is the final 3 days of the 5-day
workshop. The team comes together and takes on a strong sense of
project ownership and responsibility during Project Planning.
While practicing their new skills and while using their new
processes, the team plans the best course of action, the
timetable, and the resource needs to meet the Team Challenge.
In many Team Launch Workshops, the team presents its mission
plan to management during the afternoon of the final day.
Following the workshop, the team puts the finishing touches
on the mission plan, secures management approval for the overall
plan and for the next phase of work, and begins execution.
To Learn More, or to Arrange a Workshop
DeltaNet delivers the Team Launch Workshop as an in-house workshop only.
In this workshop teams work on real projects involving issues that cannot
be revealed outside the company. Public workshops are not appropriate.
To learn more about our Team Launch Workshop, or to arrange an
in-house workshop, go to
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