“Building effective teams starts with integrating and aligning the values of the members with the vision, mission, and strategic plan of the organization.”

-Barry Kassel, Esq.

A Team is a living organism

Managers and Organizational Development professionals have devoted enormous efforts to develop healthy, effective teams and to help team members work smoothly together. Two key points in team development are cohesiveness and communication. The goals for team building should not end at success. It is often the success of building the team that signals the beginning of the decay process. Wizdom at Work focuses on the team building of today as well as managing the success of the teams of tomorrow.

Assembling, assessing, training, and mobilizing powerful teams is a trademark of great organizations. Creating the alignment amongst members of the team is just as important as aligning the team with the organizational vision.

Team building is more than motivating teams and improving performance. It is a science and the investment in building effective teams pays off in bottom line dividends. There is no doubt that retreats, seminars, game playing, etc. are important, however, team building begins with a blueprint, foundation and engineering.

The science of team building integrates the following:

• Measurements
• Data Collection
• What we do with the Data
• Recognition and Reward
• Project teams versus Executive teams