Let me ask you a few questions so you can decide if a Team Building Workshop or Assessment is of value to you?

Is there an absence of trust between the members of your team?
Is there conflict and do team members often avoid conflict?
Is there a lot of blaming, complaining and excusing happening?
Do they demonstrate a lack of comitment?
Is there an avoidance of accountability?
Is there inattention to results?
Is there a lack of motivation?
Is timeliness or lateness an issue?
Is there a lack of appreciation of each team member?
Do some members of your team have limited or poor communication skills?
Is there a lot of pressure on your team from outside forces?
Are you experiencing difficulty in delivering your service in a timely and cost effective way?

If your organization experiences some or all of the above there is a very high hidden cost associated with these issues.  Team members may devote 40% of their time (and often higher) to the above, such as time spent in conflict, wasting time, procrastinating or being late and missing opportunties.  These costs are not always seen like paying the rent but are just as real.  

Why you want to hire someone from the outside?  

Have you ever seen a couple who are having problems with each other or within their family?  It is easy to see because you are not emotionally involved, no history.  Now bring this to your relationship and you can see that you become a bit blinder and have more difficulty in seeing the issues clearly.   This is the same scenario for your organization.

If you bring in somebody completely from outside, the slate is clean so that an outside facilitator can ask questions – even the dumbest, most obvious questions – but they come clean and it’s amazing what people will tell them and what people will share.

There’s also inevitably no hidden agenda, people don’t know them, they don’t know how to react; it’s a different situation. There’s no history for example with an outside facilitator, whereas with an HR Director, an HR Manager, there is.