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Lead Your Team

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.” - Vincent Lombardi

 

effective teamsThe key to reaching departmental goals lies in the overall effectiveness of your team. IGI guides you in creating high-performance teams that have a shared vision and truly work great together - teams that perform better together than separately, solve problems effectively, and even have fun together while exercising their knowledge, skills, and abilities to get the job done.

Developing the individual members of your team and the relationships within is essential to creating a high-performance organization. This takes time, patience and ongoing effort. The most effective teams are those where each member is highly skilled and well matched to their responsibilities, direction and communication is clear, there is a high level of respect among teammates, and necessary resources and job tools are available. All of this creates an environment of trust and drives employee commitment and performance, challenging employees to reach higher. IGI works with you on the following practices to ensure all activities align with the direction of the organization and help to build high-performance teams

  • Communicate and translate vision and purpose

  • Manage and coach individual and team performance (roles, expectations, goal setting, feedback, delegation, development, evaluation)

  • Engage, recognize and reward teammates

  • Communicate effectively with all styles

  • Embrace and resolve conflicts

What IGI's clients say:

“My management team is thinking more proactively about what they need to do to deliver stronger performance by being more effective in basic management skills, e.g. setting expectations, giving feedback, delegation, etc.”

Vice President, Corporate Services

 

 

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams

 

Performance Management

Implementing a Performance Management Process with your team provides a way to support employees toward optimal performance aligned with the expectations and goals of the business. Performance management is a process consisting of a continuous cycle of collaboration and communication between the supervisor/manager and the employee. IGI has experts ready to assist you in:

  • Defining your performance management cycle
  • Aligning individual goals and expectations with corporate and team strategies
  • Coaching employees toward goal achievement
  • Developing an effective performance appraisal tool
  • Tying compensation and rewards to performance
  • Writing and communicating the performance appraisal
  • Managing under-performers

 

Cross Functional Teamwork

Is your company achieving the results you know it can Is your company achieving the results you know it can?

Are there disconnects between marketing and sales, production and distribution?

Do you have teams that are dysfunctional instead of cross-functional?

Integrated Growth can help you identify where your cross functional teams are working well and where there are gaps. Using a simple "Root Causes at a Glance" diagnostic tool you will begin to realize where to focus to improve cross-functional operations. IGI will work with you to create a high functional organization from production to sales and entry level to senior executive.