Corporate Team Building

Corporate Team Building
by A. J. Schuler, Psy. D.

I believe corporate team building should deliver sustainable results, and not just warm feelings that fade away.

I also believe that corporate team building interventions should occur in the places where people work, because the science of behavior change tells us we can’t assume behaviors that may occur in one setting - such as a retreat house or wilderness camp - will cross over into another setting, like the office.

    For these reasons, I won’t take groups to country settings where they will climb ropes - but I will use the sciences of adult learning and behavior change to teach your team “the ropes” of creating excellence in workplace performance.

I designed and am proud to offer the Teamwork Starts With Me (TSM) Program, avaliable as a stand-alone program or as a component of the suite of organizational development tools called Growth Architecture®.

The Teamwork Starts With Me (TSM) Program

Benefits:

  • Increased individual accountability for behavior in the workplace
  • Increased individual accountability for creating a productive work environment
  • Increased team and individual productivity
  • Increased positive communication among team members
  • Increased clarity of organizational roles, functions and sources of authority
  • Increased effectiveness in leadership performance of the team leader
  • Creation of a positive, self-sustaining organizational culture within the targeted team, which can become a benchmark and model for other parts of the organization.
  • Proven model through which behavior can be acquired and maintained in the work environment.

Features:

  • Efficient use of time, as team commitments are phased throughout the program according to planned steps over twelve weeks.
  • Simplicity of its core message through the definition of five desired behaviors required for Certification

      • 1. Celebrate Others’ Successes
      2. Say “Thank You” 
      3. Create Solutions, Not Distractions
      4. Have Fun - Make Someone Smile!
      5. Repeat Back Before Responding

  • Specific criteria to measure successful program completion.
  • Leadership Coaching, begun at program inception, for the team leader to maximize TSM Program benefits and manage the transitional period following the team-based portion of the program.
  • Administration of five short TSM Seminars that lay out program principles in a dynamic, entertaining environment.
  • Materials for participants including workbooks, email-friendly Weekly Progress Forms, pocket cards listing simple program principles and framed certificates for successful completion.
  • Administration of a team celebration to coincide with the awarding of Certificates to successful program participants.
  • Program implementation by Dr. A. J. Schuler, a Wharton School trained Doctor of Psychology, with over eight years of experience in organizational development, change management, executive leadership and executive coaching.

The Teamwork Starts with Me (TSM) Program is part of Growth Architecture® and is the exclusive property of Schuler Solutions, Inc.

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Schuler Solutions, Inc.
A. J. Schuler, Psy. D.
2914 Hickory Street
Alexandria, Virginia 22305

AJ@SchulerSolutions.com
www.SchulerSolutions.com
(703) 370-6545