In today’s fast-paced and interconnected world, the success of any organization hinges on the strength and cohesion of its teams. However, building effective teams requires more than just assembling individuals. It demands a strategic and multifaceted approach that addresses emotional, physical, mental, and psychological aspects.

It’s time to unlock the full potential of your team and propel your organization to new heights. Let’s discuss how.

Emotions & Team Building

As part of my team-building consulting services, we will unearth the team’s and individuals’ emotional feelings. By acknowledging these emotions, we can focus on using them as organizational intelligence. Understanding and managing individual and team emotions helps organizational behavior, self-awareness, regulation, motivation, and empathy.

Using this information, we can effectively empower teams to navigate human emotions’ complexities, laying a solid foundation for sustainable growth and collaboration.

Our team-building method extends beyond mere awareness to encompass actionable strategies for leveraging emotions as catalysts for positive change. By integrating emotional intelligence into every facet of team dynamics, we facilitate a transformative journey that enhances individual well-being and fosters a culture of trust, resilience, and mutual support. By promoting open communication, our approach equips teams with the tools and insights needed to thrive in today’s landscape.

Service-Lead Team Building

We also include innovative service-learning events. Our team-building approach goes beyond traditional methods by integrating hands-on experiences that foster camaraderie and resilience. Through activities in outdoor settings, such as cleaning up local environments, parks, ditches, or public beaches, teams are challenged physically and empowered to make a tangible difference in their communities.

By engaging in these meaningful endeavors, team members develop a shared sense of purpose and responsibility, strengthening their bonds and instilling a spirit of collaboration that transcends the workplace.

These service-learning events provide a unique opportunity for teams to demonstrate their commitment and dedication — a concept we refer to as “skin-in-the-game.” By actively participating in initiatives to improve the environment and serve the community, team members invest their time, effort, and personal values and beliefs. This deep level of engagement fosters a sense of ownership and pride, fueling teamwork and fostering a culture of accountability and mutual support. Our service-learning approach challenges teams physically and nurtures their collective spirit, paving the way for enhanced collaboration and organizational success.

Knowing The History

Together, we will explore the organization’s historical facts, encompassing its past achievements, current status, and future projections. This history will enhance and gain institutional knowledge and insight into its trajectory.

This understanding enriches the organization’s collective mental reservoir and strengthens its strategic decision-making capabilities. Through collaboration and knowledge-sharing, teams now have the power of collective intelligence to tackle new challenges together, driving the organization toward sustained success and prosperity.

Celebrating Wins

Lastly, in our team-building exercises, individuals will share life events that may be celebratory, exhilarating, or challenging to understand psychological opportunities for the individual, sub-sets, departments, units, and the whole team.

Individuals learn from each other’s failures and successes. This team building will focus on successes to change the team’s behavior for the organization’s good.

Our Team Building Program

Our team-building program for human beings using the balanced approach consists of four concentrated areas:

1. Emotional
2. Physical
3. Mental
4. Psychological

These four areas may help unify the team around the organization’s mission and vision. Over time, they produce other opportunities for growth and added quality.

This program is divided into one full-day event or two-hour events over four days. By the end of our team-building program, the team will gain insights into each other, learn more about each other’s unique skill sets, and appreciate, better understand, and realize the participants’ personality uniqueness.

Remember, uniqueness is an organization’s strength when utilized.

The team will gain knowledge and add self-worth to everyone. Challenged teams know their limitations and see pride in accomplishment.

If your organization has other areas to add, the training can be designed to meet your needs; please contact me to get more information on my consulting services. At a pre-event meeting, written objectives will be the driving force in this team-building training session/ program. My experience has been earned, and I am ready to share my stories, failures, processes, theories, and accomplishments to strengthen your team.

Take the first step towards unlocking your organization’s full potential. Contact me today to explore how my Consulting services can propel your organization towards new heights of success.

“These are the times that try men’s souls.” Thomas Paine – December 23, 1776

Who are you following?

Twenty-first-century leadership is needed. A team approach provides today’s trends of leadership styles and best practices. As a consultant, I work with teams of various sizes to offer leadership group training. We don’t need to be hoodwinked or bamboozled by a flim-flam approach.

The ability to learn is the most critical quality nurtured by a leader. It is an often overlooked yet important skill! Truth and justice are still the best American way. You need to harness one hundred percent of your workforce to gain on the competition, deliver quality, and provide confidence to your public.

70% of the workforce, your people, are not engaged *Gallop Polling 2012.

Good leaders show up, lead by example, and bring talent together to solve complex problems for the good of all. When this happens, the outcome is improved customer service, higher sales, and improved quality of products.

Strong leadership across all organizations can bring diverse groups together as needed. The arc of workers still believes that ethical, open leaders should be respected in the 21st century.

My objective-driven consulting agenda can guide, improve, and provide self-reflection for the leadership team. These best practices consulting sessions extend over six months to a full year to achieve desired outcomes.

Re-learn The Leadership Styles

As a leader, knowing and understanding leadership styles and best practices can help you evolve and grow. Each person on your team brings different strengths to your organization. Being able to translate your skills can be crucial to your success.

Authoritarian Leadership

Authoritarian leadership is akin to a captain guiding a ship with a firm hand, where decisions flow from the top down. In this style, the leader holds absolute authority and expects strict adherence to their directives without much room for discussion or feedback from subordinates. While authoritarian leadership can facilitate quick decision-making and clear direction, it may stifle creativity and innovation among team members who feel disempowered.

Transactional Leadership

Transactional leadership operates on a give-and-take basis. The leader sets clear expectations and rewards compliance while addressing problems through corrective action. This style emphasizes the exchange of rewards for performance, fostering a structured environment where tasks and goals are clearly defined. However, the transactional leadership style may lack long-term vision and fail to inspire intrinsic motivation among team members.

Democratic Leadership

Democratic leadership epitomizes the spirit of collaboration, where decision-making is inclusive. Leaders encourage open communication and value the input of their team members, fostering a sense of ownership and empowerment. While this style promotes creativity and engagement, it may prolong decision-making processes and cause challenges in situations requiring swift action.

Coaching Leadership

Coaching leadership revolves around mentorship and development, where leaders focus on nurturing the potential of their team members. They provide guidance, support, and constructive feedback to help individuals grow and excel in their roles. This approach fosters a culture of continuous learning and improvement, leading to higher levels of employee satisfaction and performance.

Transformational Leadership

Transformational leadership ignites inspiration and drives change by challenging the status quo and articulating a compelling vision for the future. Leaders in this style inspire and motivate their teams to surpass their own expectations and achieve collective goals. Through charisma, vision, and emotional intelligence, they cultivate a sense of purpose and commitment among followers, leading to transformative outcomes and organizational growth.

Laissez-faire Leadership

Laissez-faire leadership adopts a hands-off approach, granting autonomy and decision-making authority to team members. Leaders in this style provide minimal guidance or direction, allowing individuals to take ownership of their work and innovate freely. While it can foster creativity and initiative, it may result in a lack of coordination and accountability, requiring a highly skilled and self-motivated team to succeed.

Leaders Say…

“It’s not about what we deserve, it’s about what we believe.’ – Wonder Woman

Or Captain America who has stated “I can do this all day.”

And the original, Superman’s tagline “Truth, justice, and the American way.”

Followers May Say…

Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Look up in the air; it’s a bird, it’s a plane, its super LEADER!

Successful leaders today have confidence, charisma, resilience, courage, and humility. And great leaders invest in the employee’s wellbeing, embraces emotional intelligence, use technologies to benefit the employee and organized tasks at hand.

Yes, my friends, future customers: truth and justice are still the American way.

Reach out for my consultant approach. I can help set up a series of OBJECTIVES and work with your team to create action plans to help the leaders on your team grow, resulting in grown within your business or organization.

Take the first step towards unlocking your organization’s full potential. Contact me today to explore how my Consulting services can propel your organization towards new heights of success.

How the communication cycle works

For starters, you make a statement. From there, information is received. After the other person gets the information, then decoding happens. You will need to fill in the gaps as they finish processing the information shared.

Those on the receiving end of the communication likely have biased opinions and, most times, need additional information, facts, and clarifications. This cycle takes time, clear information, adjustments for those on the receiving end, and ensuring your information can be understood.

How is the communication provided?

The communication cycle isn’t just using your voice. Communication is everywhere these days, and we communicate by text, digitally, socially, professionally, and or, at times, using protected networks.

Successful organizations provide onboarding information and documents to address how their clients will receive information about the organization.

Your thoughts must be organized and communicated in a style that those on the receiving end can understand. The message must be clarified and, at times, provided with filters.

Successful people and organizations are effective 85% of the time with solid communication.

This is where bringing in an outside consultant can help your organization.

When should clarifications be shared?

As the need for additional information or questions arises, make sure you do your research. When two or more are involved, there may often be breaks in the communication cycle.

To be more efficient, organize and prepare your answers beforehand. Repeat and rephrase questions as they come to imprint them into your memory and inspire your audience.

Tips for clear communication

• When using text or audio messaging, be mindful of your emotions and always work toward mutual understanding.
• Don’t forget to be clear and concise.
• Provide voice tone
• Pay attention to your body language and word choice.

Using a consultant to help your communication

If your organization could improve internal and external communication, Ed Schoenfelt will help you streamline your communication processes. Contact Ed to learn more about working with him today.

Take the first step towards unlocking your organization’s full potential. Contact me today to explore how my Consulting services can propel your organization towards new heights of success.