Individualised team development – which methods are useful?

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  Team building and team dynamics

  A team development/team training helps to strengthen the relationships in the team, build trust in each other and thereby strengthen the overall cooperation.

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  Communication skills

  Effective communication is crucial for team success. Training can help the team improve its communication skills – both verbal and non-verbal.

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  Problem solving and decision making

  Team development/team training courses teach techniques for creative problem solving and decision making. This makes it easier to reach well-founded joint decisions.

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  Efficiency and productivity

  By teaching specific techniques for time management and work organisation, team development/team training can increase the efficiency and productivity of the team.

Team development methods we use

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  Belbin Team Roles

  The Belbin Team Roles team development method focuses on the potential of individual team members. It looks at where each person’s individual strengths lie. Used correctly, this team development method can reduce conflicts within the team and lower staff turnover.

  A suitable activity for this method: Chain Reaction 4.0

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  DISG Team Profile

  This team development method involves conducting a personality test with each individual. The aim of the test is not to promote stereotypical thinking, but to describe the individual personality of each person in a non-judgmental way. For this reason, this method is used exclusively by psychologists or trained and licensed trainers.

  A suitable activity for this method: Merchants of Venice

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  Team analysis

  The team development method of team analysis involves defining the team’s current position and creating a vision for the future. The team then develops specific strategies for achieving the goal.

  Click here for the workshop: Workshop on analysis

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  Feedback

  This team development method focuses on how to give my team members feedback in the right way. The aim here is to give feedback in such a way that it is accepted and does not come across as an attack on the person. In the long term, this can improve cooperation.

  This method is often requested by young managers: Workshop on leadership

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  Team resilience

  Team resilience means overcoming challenges together, adapting flexibly and emerging stronger from setbacks. Resilient teams remain capable of acting even under pressure, learn from mistakes and support each other. This leads to sustainable success, higher productivity and a strong sense of unity.

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  Team dysfunctions

  Why is a team not working together optimally? There can be many reasons for this. With our team development method for dysfunctions, we can use a self-test to identify the problems in your team and address them in a targeted manner.

  Click here for the short test: Team dysfunctions self-assessment

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  Tuckman phase model

  The team development method of the phase model is often used at the start of a development process. The four classic team phases are also often already known within teams: forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning.

  Click here for the relevant workshop: Workshop on cooperation

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  Four Ears Model

  Friedemann Schulz von Thun’s Four Ears Model explains how people perceive and interpret messages in four different ways. Every message contains four levels simultaneously. Therefore, when dealing with people, it is important to address the right level and to check whether the message has been received as intended.

  Click here for the relevant workshop: Communication workshop