Team Strategy
Fixed Fee Offers
Make the most of your money with our targeted performance packages.
Process Improvement
Tune-up performance – Grassroots process improvement completed by your team, facilitated by us. Re-envision, refine, and recharge how your team delivers value.
If you’re team is doing “more with less,” just keeping its head afloat in a high-demand world, or struggling to deliver on-time and within budget due to forces outside its control, this package is for you. We’ll help your team unpack the obstacles that get in its way and identify actionable process improvements that can turn performance up.
Includes
- Rapid, high-level pre-assessment of team operations, roles/responsibilities, and work process(es) to uncover any sensitive topics or team issues and inform workshop preparation.
- Three 2- to 3-hour facilitated Value-Stream Mapping (VSM) workshops designed to identify process waste, strengthen process ownership and accountability, develop collaborative business partnerships, prepare the team for process implementation and governance.
- Documented reports of workshop results.
Key Benefits
- Strengthen team engagement, ownership, and accountability.
- Focus on high-value, high-impact activities.
- Maximize potential ROI of critical work processes.
- Promote critical thinking and collaboration.
- Strengthen the team’s systems thinking competency and capability.
Ideal for…
- Teams that need to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their work process.
- Teams encumbered by matrixed and/or siloed organizational handoffs.
Time
2- to 4-weeks
(dependent on scope and client availability)
Cost
Fixed fee. Contact us for pricing.
Collaborative Team Operations Assessment
Take flight together – team operations assessment and re-alignment completed by your team, facilitated by us.
The more things change, the more things stay the same – but should they? In this disruptive and rapidly changing world, clarity of purpose and direction are essential to survival. Re-imagine what’s possible and how you do your work through facilitated design-thinking workshops that focus your team on a common purpose and empower them to shape and own their future.
Includes
- Rapid, high-level pre-assessment of team operations to uncover any sensitive topics or team issues and inform workshop preparation.
- Two 3-hour facilitated assessment and alignment workshops (using Clever Tern’s proprietary Team Operations Wheel of Alignment [TOWA] framework):
- Documented reports of workshop results.
Key Benefits
- Sharpen the team’s value proposition and sense of purpose.
- Gain consensus on team strengths and vulnerabilities.
- Agree on team priorities and continuous improvement efforts.
- Promote strategic thinking and inclusive collaboration.
- Learn valuable techniques to strengthen business partnerships and process handoffs.
Ideal for…
- Teams in need of performance improvement.
- Leaders who seek to lead more strategically and inclusively.
- Leaders who want to develop team ownership and accountability and drive sustainable high-performance.
Time
3 to 5-weeks
(dependent on scope and client availability)
Cost
Fixed fee. Contact us for pricing.
Expert Team Operations Assessment
Lead the business, don’t let the business lead you – gain insight into team strengths, limitations, and key opportunities to optimize the team’s ability to generate value for itself, its customers, and the organization.
We collaborate with you to zone-in on your team’s true purpose and value and, through careful evaluation of team health and performance, identify opportunities that can unleash performance.
Includes
- Team operations assessment using Clever Tern’s proprietary Team Operations Wheel of Alignment (TOWA) framework (rapid or in-depth assessment options).
- Rapid review of performance data, relevant organization documentation, and business systems; plus, interviews and/or focus-groups with the core team and with the team’s key partners and customers.
- In-depth review includes additional consultants for the observation of work and for a financial ROI review.
- Findings and Recommendations Report to inform continuous improvement efforts.
- Suggested “flight plan” to implement recommendations.
Key Benefits
- Gain objective insight into team strengths and vulnerabilities.
- Acquire valuable information to prioritize continuous improvement efforts.
- Obtain unbiassed feedback from key partners and customers to strengthen business partnerships.
- Sharpen the team’s value proposition and sense of purpose.
- Promote strategic thinking and inclusive collaboration.
Ideal for…
- Teams in need of performance improvement.
- Leaders who seek to lead more strategically and inclusively.
- Leaders who want to drive sustainable high-performance and create strong business partnerships.
Time
3 to 5-weeks
(dependent on scope and client availability)
Cost
Fixed fee. Contact us for pricing.