Desired Futures for Organisations and Teams

Build cohesive results focused teams and organisations

Are you frustrated with teams that don’t perform and sometime seems to make life harder?

If you are a leader with responsibility for team and organisation performance or a frustrated team member looking for answers the Desired Futures for Teams program can make a difference to you.

Teams suffer all sorts of problems including:

• Different views of what matters;
• Lack of agreement on how to behave;
• Problems are ignored;
• Poor performance is accepted;
• Underground conflict and avoidance of issues leads to resentment and mediocre results;
• Turf wars and resource fighting detract from what is important; and,
• A whole heap of other excuses that are often labelled “personality issues”.

Left unchecked, which is often the case, poor team performance, leads to:

• Patch protection and internal fighting;
• High cost of management time dealing with problems;
• Reluctance to speak up resulting in safety issues, customer complaints and lost opportunities;
• Poor execution sees failure to deliver;
• Reduced profits and business performance;
• Increased costs, mistakes and rework;
• Difficulty in attracting and keeping the best staff; and,
• Lost opportunity and risk of business failure.

Poor team performance and all the negative consequences do not have to be tolerated. Often leaders fail to take action as they have not experienced high performing teams and are unaware of what can be done. When teams work well some of the possibilities are:

• Great teams and organisations achieve exceptional outcomes;
• Engaged and committed individuals and teams become the norm;
• A culture of focussed and aligned teams forms a company that achieves great resalts;
• The team becomes profitable, innovative and sustainable;
• Constant improvement occurs;
• Reduced costs of errors, conflict and staff turn are experienced; and,
• Pride, commitment and reputation are enhanced.

Seven steps to start on the road to great team performance include:

1. Adopt the Desired Futures Approach to Teams;
2. Adopt team model and behaviours;
3. Clarify desired future;
4. Share current reality;
5. Develop strategy and action;
6. Cascade strategy and action to individuals; and,
7. Review and learn.

Central to assisting you develop the team results you need for business success are a number of services including:

• Desired Futures for Individuals and Teams to collaborate and reach peak performance;
  
• Strategic Advice tailored to meet your needs;
  
• Strategic Participation to contribute to your success;
  
• Personal and/or Team Success Boot Camp to fast track individual and team achievement;
  
• Fit for Success to inspire and boost individual and team fitness and performance;
  
• Vision That Matters to connect with people’s hearts, minds and talents;
  
• Facilitation to enable you to do what really matters;
  
• Consulting for the results you want;
  
• Coaching and mentoring to enhance capability for success;
  
• Newsletter to keep you informed and up to date with the latest ideas;
  
• Keynotes, Conference packages and Development programs to inspire and educate.

Andrew O'Brien - Desired Futures
Level 1, 181 Bay Street, Brighton, Victoria, Australia, 3186
Phone +61 3 9607 - 8548
Fax + 61 3 8679 - 0542
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