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Next Step Partners helps corporate teams of all types and sizes, including executive, cross-functional and virtual teams, to increase operating effectiveness, develop positive dynamics, and meet business challenges. We contribute to team effectiveness by creating engaging and constructive environments that enable teams to communicate directly and productively. We tailor our approach to the specific requirements of each situation. Our clients include longstanding teams seeking to improve results as well as new teams or team leaders that need to accelerate productive working relationships and processes. We help client teams:
- Define new visions and create strategic plans to achieve them
- Integrate new leaders with existing team members to achieve quick results
- Improve communication and resolve conflict
- Maximize individual styles and contributions to facilitate constructive group processes
- Establish clear operating principles, particularly in virtual or cross-functional environments
- Step back, assess new business challenges and plan the appropriate course of action
- Run meetings that ensure full participation, focused problem-solving, and results
Executive Offsites
Team Development
Meeting Facilitation
| Executive Offsites |
We design and facilitate executive team sessions to discuss and resolve complex issues, align goals, and set clear direction for the business. As needed, we provide ongoing facilitation and team coaching through the implementation process to assess progress, address emerging challenges and target further action.
Offsite sessions may include:
- Analyzing the competitive landscape and opportunities, threats, strengths and weaknesses of the business
- Creative visioning to enable executives and extended teams to articulate the desired future state of the business
- Identifying improvement priorities for the business
- Defining goals designed to stretch team members and move the business forward
- Creating communication strategies to engage employees in the vision and strategy
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| Team Development |
We design and facilitate team sessions that accelerate performance. We enable discussions that create clarity, increase understanding, generate cohesion and build commitment. The session content typically addresses the current business issues facing the team so that progress is made on both the team’s functioning and its strategic goals.
These sessions may include:
- Processes that allow teams to surface and resolve underlying issues
- The Myers Brigg’s Type Indicator® to build awareness and understanding of the different ways individuals operate in a professional environment, as well as maximize individual contributions
- Energizing experiential exercises that enable team members to see and experience the ways that they are working well together and how they are limiting themselves
- Structures that create individual and team accountability for follow-up actions to ensure results
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| Meeting Facilitation |
We work with groups of all sizes, at all levels, to design and facilitate high-stakes meetings. Our master facilitators drive toward results by creating clarity, accountability and commitment to action.
The success of these sessions is due to our ability to:
- Quickly understand the business context and group dynamics
- Work with the client to identify specific and realistic objectives for the meeting, and design a process that achieves these outcomes
- Identify and address potential obstacles up front that might impede the success of the meeting
- Create an environment that encourages active participation
- Manage challenging group dynamics constructively
- Ensure quality conversation while keeping the group on track toward session objectives
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"Our team came away from the team building workshop that Next Step Partners led with a better understanding of ourselves as individuals and how we operate as a group. As a result, we were able to improve how we work together and now share a common language on our dynamics. All the team members commented that the session and facilitator exceeded expectations. Thank you again, Next Step Partners."
Vice President,
Business Direct
Card Services,
Wells Fargo |
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