High Performing Teams

If you are looking for world class teams Grape can help you create them. Huge improvements can be made by giving teams process structures, esprit de corps and clear direction, roles and responsibilities.

We use particular frameworks that can help you create and sustain self organising teams which are committed and focused. Grape People are licenced to use key psychometric tools which help team development.

Management team development

Management Teams have an extra team responsibility which is to learn how to lead other global, matrixed, self organised teams, virtually. They often have an extra complication which is to clarify together their fundamental purpose and the strategies aligned to it by making sense of the fuzzy environment around them.

Our Core Team Development Process

Understanding the Team Development Process helps to you to see better the needs to develop and sustain such high performing teams. The process is based on the Drexler-Sibbet model and most Grape Team Development Processes will  use the model as a conceptual base which is then tailored for your specific needs associated with self organising, with globality and with virtuality.

Stage 1: Clarifying Purpose and Team Alignment

Why are we a team ? What are we trying to do ? What is our fundamental purpose and how does that motivate us ? Why should we work together ?

Stage 2: Clarifying Strategic Goals and Roles/responsibitlies

What are the strategies we need to fulfill that purpose ? What goals will we set to get there ? Who will do what, when will they do it, how will we review what we are doing ?

Stage 3: Developing Trust and Building Connections

Who are we as individuals ? What do we believe ? What are our core values ? How will we live together ? How will we support and sometimes critique each other ?

Stage 4: Implementing Processes

What key team processes will we need ? How will we practically collaborate ? How will we virtually live together in a practical fashion ?

Stage 5: Sustaining High Performance

How will we learn and improve as a team ? How will we become more creative and innovative ? How will we keep being a world class team ?

To learn about activities supporting the stages contact Iain Muir, Greg O'Shea or Piritta Kantojärvi. All team development can be performed in English, Finnish, Swedish, Czech, German and Russian.

Back to Team Development >