Philips Consulting

When people work seamlessly together, they produce results that are greater than their individual efforts. But creating a high performance team takes time, commitment, skill and sensitivity. In our team building sessions, we teach and create understanding of team dynamics:

Values

What are the commonly held values and beliefs that drive and motivate your team?

Trust

Building trust and safety in your team - the basic requirement for open communication

Ethics

Create a "code of conduct" for your team - "the way we agree to behave toward one another"

Communication

Encourage members to constructively disagree without destroying their ability to work as a team. Create a feedback structure for team members to encourage learning and reduce misunderstandings.

Spirit

Deal with apathy, low motivation and lack of commitment

Recognition

Create a culture of thanks, acknowledgement and celebration

Accountability

Ensure that responsibilities are clear, understood and measurable.

What was most valuable however, was the unique, perceptive and creative method you employed to address these challenges to build an effective team structure for the BCIT Foundation staff.  The insightful perspective...resulted in a working model which addressed concerns and anxieties of both management and support staff, and fostered a truly cooperative work environment.

- Laurie Clarke, VP Development
  BCIT

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

- Antoine De Saint-Exupery