More often than not, it is deficits on the soft side of improvement – the lack of team skills, internal politics, and bad communication – that imperil initiatives. Rath & Strong’s coaching in Team & Influence Skills addresses how to:

• Avoid the leading causes of project failure
• Get crucial buy-in and cooperation from managers and employees
• Establish clear team goals, roles, and procedures
• Lead effective team meetings
• Influence key stakeholders
• Plan the people side of change effectively

Our One-to-One and Team Coaching Ensures Improvement Success

Our customized solutions improve team effectiveness with tested methods to improve both individual and group performance. We approach coaching in Team & Influence skills as an integrated effort: combining technical methodology with elements of leadership, customer input, team skills, and critical influencing skills. Our long experience helps teams that are stuck get unstuck, helps teams just coming together avoid pitfalls, helps teams working well together learn how to integrate new members, and spurs successful teams to raise the bar even higher.

We work with you to:

• Leverage individual strengths to create stronger teams
• Speed up successful new team start-ups
• Remove entrenched obstacles and barriers to team performance
• Release the innovative power of teams
• Evolve teams to ever-higher levels of performance

Cross-Functional Team Performance

Alignment of business processes with the needs of the customers requires breaking down functional silos. Our coaching efforts with cross-functional teams help define the key deliverables of business processes, establishing a direct linkage between team goals, process goals, and customer needs. We help leverage the collective strength of the cross-functional team, while navigating the usual interference and internal political land mines. Team members and leaders then see how to improve critical processes that drive customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Multicultural and Cross-Cultural Team Building

Our coaching to multicultural and cross-cultural teams helps identify the cultural and communication orientations that can either help or hinder a team’s performance. Awareness of and sensitivity to differences grounded in national culture, while avoiding over-generalizing or stereotyping, is a necessary element in implementing change cross-culturally. Generating genuine enthusiasm means putting team performance in the right organizational context from the start, and Rath & Strong has unique experience in helping Global 500 firms release the talents of individuals and teams achieve extraordinary results.