• Identify and eliminate blockages to performance
• Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the team.
• Motivate members to improve their team's performance.
• Facilitate the commitment of each member to participate in the improvement process.
• Understand the characteristics of effective teamwork.
• Establish an action and improvement plan

Step One: Assess the Team

Prior to the meeting, team members individually complete a detailed and validated questionnaire about how their team is functioning. Compiling the results gives an accurate perception of what is working and what is not. At the meeting, the team and facilitator work together to:

1. Identify the team's strengths and weaknesses

• Explore the team's strengths
• Identify blockages to high effectiveness
• Measure the team's effectiveness in overcoming barriers to effectiveness
• Determine factors to develop to increase team performance

2. Establish a concrete action plan to be implemented by the team leader, the team as a whole and individual team members

• The facilitator explains and interprets these results, validates them with the team members and establishes an action plan with them.
• The diagnostic instrument used is the Team Assessment Questionnaire, by Francis and Young, world-renowned experts in team development.

Step Two: Strengthen the team

Team members participate in the training activities essential to building a strong, harmonious and productive team.

1. Understand team development

• Through structured and validated activities, participants discover the fundamental factors of team building and team consolidation.
• The facilitator explains and demonstrates: how an effective team works; how to identify the four stages of team development; why you need to start with team structure; - how to build a team.

2. Developing the team and removing blockages

• Practice developing the 12 skills of a team in its work, relationships and meetings
• Practicing how to deal with the things that get in the way of effectiveness
• Use a proven tool to observe, increase and review your team's progress

3. Establish an action plan

The trainer proposes concrete and proven ways to improve the team's functioning. He/she helps the team to establish a concrete action plan with a realistic timeline. He/she helps the team to determine :

• the objectives to be reached the responsibilities of each person
• the means to be used
• the resources required
• the support to be obtained
• the time frame for achieving them
• the criteria for evaluating the improvement
• the type of support provided by the trainer: report, coaching, training, etc.