What if you spearheaded a project complete with a team of world-renowned experts, but none of them spoke the same language? Or - what if your team of experts all spoke the same language, but couldn’t agree on a desired outcome? (Sound crazy? Or uncomfortably close to home?)
In either scenario, you’re bound to have trouble achieving your goals. That’s because a focus on results without attention to the team environment, structure, or process is like shooting in the dark. It’s hit or miss at best and often requires complex work-arounds and detours that are costly and ineffective. Likewise, a focus on just environment or process is a recipe for disaster. Without a goal in mind, even the best process often just leads to more process (and frustration!).
Working alongside your team in real time while you're doing real work, The Halle Group coaches and facilitates, providing tools and practices to communicate, collaborate, build trust, make decisions and resolve conflict creatively. Our approach to team effectiveness doesn’t involve Band-Aid solutions: our first objective is identifying your team's "operating system" -- how you collectively are thinking about the work, the situation, your roles, each other, how best to make decisions, resolve conflict and communicate. When you learn about what gets you stuck, you can shift how you're thinking and then develop strategies that will enable you to accomplish goals and be effective over time. And in ways that are a lot more fun!
“Carrie is an exceptional consultant with strong skills in developing team building with a diverse and professional group of participants. Our recent strategic planning and team building retreat deepened our relationships, highlighted the strengths of our agency and enhanced our communication.”
“The Mutual Learning training , team and one-on-one coaching Carrie did for my department helped to bridge the gap between management and non management staff, increased the management team capacity to work collaboratively, handle difficult issues and differences more effectively, and bring better internal and external service to our customers. She has a unique ability to get people to see their role in ineffective communication and coach them to become effective leaders and team members.”