"Our team is in complete alignment about where we want to take our business. It’s awe-inspiring to look back and see how far you helped us come in just a few weeks.”
                                                    – NO, VP, Advertising Agency

Our Team Jump-Start Program will quickly launch and build an effective team or department (especially on a mission-critical assignment or during major change); Jackson & Schmidt can help a client accelerate team performance during all phases of key teamwork situations including:

    • Long-term strategic teams
    • Short-term critical project teams
    • Ad-hoc teams
    • New department or division

The Business Case	The Solution	Expected Results
Most organizations increasingly rely on teamwork, but do not provide systematic team development skills. The result is teams with: • Lack of clear vision, mission, and direction • Little or no clarity of individuals' roles and responsibilities • Minimal or "fuzzy" accountability • Decisions which are "carried over" from meeting to meeting	J&S shows you how to make teamwork a high-performing asset to your business. There are distinct phases and skills to increasing true team performance, which are very different skills from the traditional models that reinforce and reward individual performance. Our Team Development Program targets the following objectives: • Phase One: Chartering an Effective Team Start-Up Get everyone aligned and moving toward a common direction, with clearly defined and communicated roles and responsibilities. • Phase Two – Productive Team Work Sessions Create a common language and toolkit for effective “meeting behaviors” to produce output in team sessions, and avoid the pitfalls of aimless, rambling, ineffective meetings. • Phase Three – Accelerating Long-Term Performance Instill new habits, and build team facilitation expertise quickly requires coaching team leaders on how to manage team performance and process at each phase. A combination of classroom training, tools and models, plus on-the-job learning and coaching is the most effective way to accelerate a team results. This is ideally managed internally by the organization. Read the case study for this program.	Define and develop the "true-team mindset" which leads to high performance teamwork and accelerated performance on projects.