Building a high functioning team in a professional environment is a difficult task. The business world is full of quick fix strategies that offer plug and play solutions for every group related issue. From "Team Building for Dummies" to "How To Get Along With Everyone" the options for "buying" an effective team are everywhere. We believe that building an effective team is harder than that. Developing a team takes the very currencies we often have the least of: time, compassion, commitment and resolution. However, the yields are tremendous in job satisfaction, talent retention, bottom line results and personal initiative.

Our Process

Our process is simple. We start with determining who you need to be as a team and why. We then begin to build an understanding of who each of the players are, what their strengths, challenges and tendencies are and examine the individual and collective motivation for wanting this team to develop. Next, we address the gaps in communication, symmetry, compassion and understanding that stand in the way of success for most groups. Finally, we determine what new actions are possible and what commitments are necessary to implement those actions. We build a sense of completion by identifying benchmarks for progress and success for the team as it develops and changes.

New Action

Open Range Consulting provides team development that is rooted in the ability to take new action and produce results. We believe that every effective team begins at the individual level and builds outward only from a solid foundation of personal understanding and interest. Our custom team workshops are interactive, experiential, dynamic and results oriented. We focus on the practical applications and changes in everyday actions and mentalities that allow individuals to work more effectively alone, together and across teams.

Craft

The fact is that crafting a collection of individuals into a group that performs specific tasks with creativity, compassion and rigor is just that, a craft. Navigating the terrain of human intelligence, emotion and intent is a key skill for anyone at any level of an organization. Team building and development is not simply creating the team, but creating the outlook, skills and mentality that allows each individual to bring the best of themselves to the table and take effective action in coordination with others.

Transform yourself, your team and your business.

Open Range Consulting offers professional coaching that dovetails with our team programs. The coaching process will strengthen and deepen the transformation initiated through a team development workshop. Coaching packages based on results are available for individuals and small groups.