COMMON WORKPLACE CHALLENGES

Our team has conducted Action Learning Programs for various clients during last five years to help clients addressing the following common workplace challenges:

Managing Change
Bonding of newly hired team
New Project Launching
Vendor/client relation building
Breaking Silos and Opening up
Low morale of project team
Leadership development
Preparing team for challenging goals ahead
Orientation of team culture for new inductees
Motivation of Sales team
Improving trust and communication

Managing Change 
Be it the acquisition by an international giant at global level or the organization going through a major re-structuring process, change comes at the core of such developments. If not managed in a structured way, it gives birth to uncertainty, chaos, unclear roles, lot of grey areas, rumors, high turnover and low performance. People at senior level with better visibility of happenings around are expected to be in total control of the situation. More frequent communication at all levels, developing a mindset to adopt change, shifting focus to the broader objectives and ensuring uninterrupted business performance takes the organization out of such critical phase. In past many years, our following solutions have helped organizations to be prepared for or get comfortable with change:
Dare to Change
Team Survivor
Developing Change Leaders

Bonding of newly hired team 
Have you ever experienced change of school in early education? Not much learning occurred in the earlier days where everyone was stranger around you, had to unlearn previous culture and experiences, new teachers with new teaching styles, so much to keep you away from the core purpose i.e. studies. The early days in a team’s formation can be equally unproductive and frustrating as members struggle to delineate roles and responsibilities, establish procedures and systems for completing work, and set goals and milestones. Strange faces with unfamiliar behaviors, unknown expectations, communication barriers and less shared vision – these are some of the problems usually our clients have mentioned while forming new teams.       

Although there is no short cut to team building, however we have helped our clients to speed up the process with the right interventions at the right times. We recommend newly formed teams using one of the following…
Team Impact
Team Golf
Team Raiders

New Project Launching 
New things, like new projects bring opportunities as well as threats for many. Usually people face difficulty in socializing themselves in new project teams, where the behaviors are still being adjusted, timelines are being worked out, budgets and resources are being distributed, roles and goals are still unclear. The magnitude of the project on one side and the people factor on the other flares up the uncertain and bewildered elements of the project. In such circumstances, new project teams engage us for building a better team cohesion, breaking inter-team barriers and developing trust. Our following programs have helped new project teams to be geared up for a powerful launch:   
Team Quest
Team Survivor
Team Impact

Vendor/client relation building 
Highly competitive business today demands extremely coordinated and trust based relationship between the service providers and the service users. Vendors are taken us business partners by various leading organizations. To achieve common business objectives clients and vendors work together as a team. These teams are usually formed for a short duration of time to complete a particular project or launch a new product. Often issues emerge as the teams encounter cultural clashes, misaligned processes, and a lack of group identity. We have developed expertise in helping organizations where such relationship exist and client or vendor is suffering any of the above mentioned problems. Our following programs address these issues:
I am with You
Team Impact

Breaking Silos and Opening up
Often the structure of organizations, separate locations, different work tracks can make it hard to work together effectively. Cross-functional teams have more than just physical barriers separating them. While the individuals within might share the same goal, each responds in different ways, from different perspectives, with different agendas and at different points along the timeline.

Sometimes these differences are further aggravated by territorialism or departmentalism. Finance vs Marketing, Product Development vs Sales. Many conflicts arise along organizational lines, from minor competition to major sabotage.

To address these challenges, we’ve developed a series of team building adventures and training workshops that can be combined and customized to meet the unique needs of your group. Our following programs have successfully delivered such results in the past:
I am with You
Team Quest

Low morale of project team 
There’s no bigger impact on team productivity than low team morale. The symptoms are easy to recognize: Low energy levels, Mistrust, Warfare on emails with lot of CCs to senior management, Chronic absenteeism, and Missed deadlines...

...but the causes are often much more complex. It’s easy to understand how down-sizing and layoffs can cause low morale on a team, but did you know that teams in wildly successful companies can also suffer from low morale?

Often it’s due to teams not having a clear charter to follow. Sometimes it’s due to individual personality conflicts. Usually, there’s a decided lack of trust among team members. Either way, we recommend the following approach to discover and counteract the sources of low morale.
TRUST
Team Impact

Leadership, Visioning, Succession 
Developing leaders at all levels who are willing to take challenges upfront, can lead with example, take risks and make decisions in unknown is the need of every growing organization. In past many years, the decision makers have approached us to take their executives through adventures where every turn brings a new scenario and every day comes up with even greater mental and physical challenge. Since we believe that doing business now a days is like going adventures. Not just surviving but leading their way is the outcome of these outdoor leadership experiences. Our clients have also benefited from our leadership programs for developing a shared vision for senior management and giving a flavor of succession planning in their leadership pipeline. Organizations and individuals have benefited enormously from our following leadership offerings:
Leadership Expedition
Exploring Leadership
Leadership Quest
Strategic Golf

Preparing team for challenging goals ahead 
With immense growth in competition, higher customer expectations and challenging business conditions, organizations are in need of individuals and teams that can outperform to achieve near to impossible goals. This starts with a strong inner drive in individuals, then trust amongst the team members and finally a commitment with organizational purpose and values. Training Impact comes up with this soft part for achieving daring goals while the client organization takes responsibility of hardcore tools, techniques and resources for reaching their targets. With this partnership approach we have served our clients thorough following programs:
Team Impact
Team Raiders
Chasing Snow Leopard

Orientation of team culture for new employees 
Teamwork, team culture, team player, team lead … these are the common jargons used by a number of organizations these days. In our past many years, working with national and multinational organizations we have found that in many companies, despite of using team jargons, they are still departments, functions, groups or subdivisions. The spirit of teamwork is missing while the organization is desiring to have it. According to our research, more than 80% individuals and teams, while going through our team culture programs, have redefined teamwork for themselves. After going through our following programs, their rating of teamwork at workplace has gone down while the realization graph goes up.

Our clients have engaged us to give orientation of team culture to new inductees so that they should be clear from the very first day about their destination for an organization with team culture in real spirit.  
Team Impact
I am with You
Team Quest

Motivation of Sales team 
High motivation of bread earners has always paid back to the organizations. Motivating the sales people doesn’t always means charging them up with just a motivational speech. It can’t be achieved unless it is internalized through a systemic approach of analyzing market, business trends, strong product support, having a rational belief, commitment of top management and of course the transparent systems to appraise individual’s performance. We have helped our sales oriented clients in keeping their people motivated to achieve their targets and developing systems to support a continuous motivation for even greater results. From delivering a motivational talk to developing a rational framework that ensures motivation at each step has been our success through following programs:
Team Raiders
Conferences

Improving trust and communication 
Trust is the foundation for teams in becoming high performing means just that: trust comes first. When we try to manage teams before the trust issues are resolved, we deal with symptoms rather than causes and repeating problems by just changing names. If trust prevails in the organizational culture, same words could have different meanings on the other side no matter how promising the organization is, if trust is not there even good action is also taken as a conspiracy. We have experienced organizations suffering from the basic communication problems because of they don’t trust. In such culture, people don’t share, don’t ask, don’t complain, and don’t go into conflicts thus hindering the organizational performance. We have taken teams through our outdoor trainings where through a systematic facilitation process, they start opening up and bridge the perception gaps. They start accommodating others even in unlikely conditions. They discover good human being inside those about whom they had rivalries at workplace. And they start trusting them. See more details of following programs that promote trust and improve communications in teams:
Team Impact
I am with You
TRUST