Team Building Programs | True North Leadership, Inc.

True North creates and designs unique team building program services for senior teams, intact teams, cross-functional teams, and product teams. All our team building programs and exercises are custom tailored to deliver the highest possible results. The goals of our programs are developed with the meeting sponsor and the True North consultant, in order to meet the client's specific objectives.

Our Team Building Programs include following activities:

•	Meeting facilitation: Driving your agenda and integrating your meeting theme with leadership topics and experiential learning to vitalize the meeting
•	Ropes Course activities and low events
•	Leadership Skills Assessment: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Emotional Competence Inventory, Emotional Quotient Inventory, Coaching Report
•	Leadership Topics: Emotional Intelligence, Star Teams, Team Guidelines, Coaching Others for Success, Vision and values, Communication and Decision Making Skills

Case Study on Team Building Ideas and Activities:

One Example of How a Team Building Program Creates Organizational Success

Challenge:

A financial company was switching leaders between two departments. As result of the switching, transition issues, demanding goals, inefficient processes, long hours and competition were all creating poor performance and low morale in these two groups.


Strategy:	The following strategies were used to build the Emotional Intelligence within the groups, and a result, function better as inter-related teams.
	Individual coaching with each leader Group coaching with the two leaders Four facilitated team sessions with their combined teams Leadership Skills Assessment focusing on Inventory of Leadership Styles (ILS) and the Organizational Climate Survey (OCS): pre-assessment and post-assessment over a four month time period.

Results:

The teams identified various changes in work flow patterns which made their loan process more streamlined and customer-focused. In addition, the leaders were able to speak about issues that had previously been unclear. The leaders became: approachable, vulnerable, empathic and caring as to what their teams were experiencing. As a result, the team members felt heard, honored, supported and outperformed their forecast for the quarter.

Leadership Changes	Leader 1	Leader 2
Visionary	+ 27%	+23%
Affiliative	+26%	+13%
Participative	+35%	+3%
Coaching	+15%	+5%
Pacesetting (Negative leadership quality)	-18%	-15%

Climate Changes	Both leaders affect on climate
Autonomy	+ 22%
Performance Rewards satisfaction	+18%
Recognition	+18%
Mission and Direction clarity	+12%
Team cooperation	+11%

Executive Team Development

Typical Learning Objectives

Team Building Program Options