Cross-functional team alignment
...unifies diverse individuals to become a cohesive team with shared commitments and culture.
The traditional notion of a team has been turned on its head: today’s teams are fluid, flexible and highly-changeable entities. Some will form and disband within a defined period. Others will experience a continual flux of members. Nearly all will be made up of individuals who belong to more than one team grouping.
FPG’s powerful team alignment offering is essentially for establishing the language, principles and roadmaps that will lead to the singular success of cross-functional, multi-cultural, pan-organisational teams.
Features
- suitable for multi-cultural, cross-functional and pan-organisational teams as well as project, supplier and/or customer teams
- delivered via a combination of one-to-one interviews, team facilitation and workshops
- reflects a high-level view of all sides of the partnership
- establishes appropriate team ‘language’ and behaviour
- contracts areas of alignment and freedom
- builds common working practices
- provides clear review points
Benefits
- fosters belonging and engagement
- aligns individual agendas with a clear, common purpose
- engineers individual commitment to positive, shared team outcomes
- creates a shared culture that reflects its constituent parts
- supports both the set up and the disbanding of temporary teams
- pre-empts potential diversions and thus accelerates team success
Here is what clients have said about Team Alignment Programmes from FPG:
"The two-day experience was well-managed and presented in a calm and thought-provoking way. Self-realisation can be difficult but I found the whole experience stimulating and educational." Joint MD, Clyde Materials Handling