Team Building
Making nonprofits successful takes more than just individual effort – it takes teamwork. Today, nonprofits need to use teams to accomplish many tasks. Teams may work on site-based decision making, program development, implementation of new programs, or alliances with other nonprofits. For teamwork to be successful, teams and individual team members need to have a clear understanding of team roles and responsibilities: shared goals; a sense of commitment; the ability to work together; and mutual accountability.
Using the Team Dimensions Profiles model, DESC consultants will work with a nonprofit’s leadership to strengthen team(s) function. This includes an on-site workshop for an agency’s team members with support to implement change.
The workshop components are as follows:
1. Self assessment of team member roles and responsibilities
2. Overview of effective team building
3. An interactive exercise
Objectives:
1. Understand the five stages of team development
2. Effective use of the five essential roles needed for a highly functional work team
3. Develop strategies that will help you work on a team in ways that balance the different strengths of each team member
To request help for your team, click here.
