Key Capability: Team Orientation

Many define team orientation in an organization as the collaboration and teamwork that can be cultivated by encouraging shared effort. However, we at the Culture Resilience Group view teamwork as a primary capability for the organization to collectively demonstrate the ability to adapt and react to changes in the market. 

Market disruptions, technological innovations or deviations in consumer behavior force organizations to rapidly adjust if it wishes to remain viable. On numerous occasions, behavior change takes place faster than systems change in response to new market or consumer demands. Teamwork is the capability that helps employees work across organizational boundaries to get the job done.

When teams have developed the skills of working together, communication, problem solving and agility they can rapidly manage changes needed by the organization to respond to market disruptions or increased competition. The development goes well beyond the natural stages of team evolution one might see in the model of forming, storming, norming and performing. The skills must be honed to think and understand quickly when problems or obstacles to objectives are encountered.

At CRG, we view the advanced development of teamwork as the prerequisite to organization agility. Individual employees can think and understand quickly when faced with challenges driven by change. However, their ability to think and understand quickly as a team is what creates agility across organization boundaries.

Our teambuilding programs are designed to develop the collective capability to demonstrate agility in response to challenges created by the continuous change your organization is experiencing.