Cross-team development: Stronger together
Are you an enthusiastic teamworker, skilled at tackling tasks together with diverse people and strengthening company performance? Yet, you sometimes experience seemingly insoluble controversies, especially at the periphery of your own team? Then you're probably dealing with interface conflicts.
What is cross-team development?
Cross-team development resolves conflicts that arise in everyday life between departments, teams, and individuals. Representatives of the relevant interface teams, who are specially selected for the seminar, learn to develop a shared vision of synergistic cooperation at these interfaces. Together, they seek the causes of conflicts and sustainable solutions to build trust and respect. The result is a new team norm: "What is right?" instead of "Who is right?" Instead of "That's not possible" or "We don't have the capacity for that," the new approach is: "We're all in this together and we're committed to making it happen."
The five steps to the ideal cross team
- Kick-off : During the one-and-a-half-hour kick-off, the team determines what it wants to use cross-team development for. The rules of the game and the desired level of openness are also discussed.
- Pre-work : During the eight-hour pre-work session, participants learn and experience the core competencies of the teams as a whole and how these can be optimally utilized to achieve the company's goals. They develop a sense of what would ideally be possible and where they actually stand.
- Team Workshop : Four weeks later, the participants meet for the actual team workshop, which lasts two days. The focus is on jointly identifying points of friction between the affected teams and reflecting on the current situation. They work out how potential can be further utilized and define an action plan that ensures optimal collaboration and transfer.
- Optional virtual team coaching : After the workshop, participants and coach meet three times for 90 minutes to reflect on the results already achieved and to ensure that the obstacles of everyday life are overcome.
- Follow-up : During the half-day follow-up after about six months, the participants discuss and verify the implementation of the newly acquired team skills.