Great teams learn more, risk more and deliver more than individual members could on their own.

COMPIO's team coaching services build the leadership skills, recognition of possibilities and commitment to excellence that drive innovation.

Innovative Works: Build team members' creative acumen by providing a supported, practical experience with applied innovation

It's one thing to be able to list the six steps to creative problem solving; it's another thing to lead effective creative problem solving in the workplace. Facilitate a thoughtfully designed team through a creative problem solving process that generates a more effective approach to your challenge, while developing your ability to engage others in approaching business challenges as creative challenges. The scope of the Innovative Works executive coaching process includes:

• Innovation strategy design: crafting the team charter, selecting and inviting team members.
• Exploring the challenge: collecting and considering data and information, defining the "real challenge," updating key stakeholders on these outcomes.
• Generating creative solutions: incorporating unique approaches and vantage points, defining a range of potential solutions; selecting and improving the best.
• Preparing for action: developing and improving implementation strategies; sharing the plan with others, integrating input and building support.
• Implementing for sustainable success: executing, measuring the effectiveness of and improving the selected strategies.

Creative Intelligence: Tap into the creative abilities within your team by highlighting distinguishing sources of power and success

Designed for times when business results hinge upon bringing each member's creative abilities to the forefront, a Creative Intelligence program can be presented as a day long immersion or a series of shorter sessions. Give your team an opportunity to slow down and think differently about ways to:

• Become more consistently creative in work and life, by developing a stronger understanding of personal sources of creativity and identifying ways to make fuller use of talents and strengths.
• Counter blocks to accessing and using creativity in the workplace: testing personal mythologies about creativity, defining ways to decrease mental clutter, and identifying attitudes, assumptions, and emotions that stifle innovation.
• Build habits that support bringing more of their best to their work, individually or as a team.

Climate Check: Identify the leadership behaviors helping and hindering innovation in your workplace

Be in the position to make changes that strengthen supportive practices and reduce identified obstacles. Stages of the Climate Check process include:

• Crafting your survey process; options include research-based tools, customized on-line tools and appreciative inquiry interviews.
• Considering the feedback received, with an eye toward recognizing and building upon acknowledged strengths.

• Identifying ways to strengthen and sustain policies, practices and behaviors that support creativity, and reduce identified obstacles. COMPIO coaches your leaders as they plan changes, integrate behavioral changes, track progress, and define ways to sustain their gains.

Increase effectiveness with Strength Based Team Development

Integrating input and requests from a number of client companies, COMPIO, The Fogarty Group, and Maue Center have collaborated on the design of a new strength based team coaching process.

The Strength Based Team Development process provides a thoughtful combination of experiential challenges, stakeholder input, team and individual coaching. Team members rapidly experience the impact of their behaviors, define priority team behaviors, learn what personal strengths are most valued, develop skills to increase the effectiveness of the team, and practice using each other as catalysts for success.

To learn more, contact Tracy Fuller at tfuller@compio.net.