Team learning experiences are significantly enhanced through electronic brainstorming techniques that encourage breakthrough thinking and innovative approaches to conflict resolution and problem solving. Verbal conversation among team members becomes more meaningful with more time available for solution oriented discussions.

Our meeting support system, together with the appropriate facilitation techniques, helps teams at all levels to experiment in learning and to apply their discoveries to their own growth and to their own projects. This flexible approach to team development helps team members understand and take responsibility for their personal growth and their team’s visionary capacity, thereby contributing to the potential capabilities of the team to reach higher levels of service opportunities, performance and profits.

Sometimes events happen so fast that teams can't keep up with them because the organizational elements to deal with change have not been put in place. Business teams often find they are always reacting to change instead of planning or managing it. Over time, teams can move into a higher, more productive state or they will regress into a lower, less organized, and less effective state. 

Teams that break out of the reactive state are able to leave behind those limiting characteristics by renewing its focus on clearly defined goals that build a sense of shared purpose and vision among its members. In this way a team can become responsive as it progresses on through the proactive state towards high performance. Teams that are able to accurately assess and evaluate the progression of their development, in a shared way, with the aid of electronic meeting support are better prepared to continuously improve and succeed in their endeavors.

The electronic meeting support system supports a wide variety of team development processes including self- assessments, surveys, focus groups, vision mapping exercises, and performance questionnaires, that integrate the learning and growth of successful teams into the culture of the whole organization.

This special ability to capitalize on the successes of individual teams is unique to users of electronic meeting support systems, since information sharing and benchmarking across organizational boundaries becomes easier with an electronic meeting support system.

There are more than one hundred exercises, activities and games in our collection that have been adapted to processes that are supported by our electronic meeting support system. The activities, exercises, energizers, aha! experiences, metaphors and games in our collection are each designed to bring the participants to the brink of learning something important about managing the process of change.  

Theses exercises can help to get the creative juices flowing, they can create an atmosphere of playfulness and of thinking on a different plane than people are used to thinking.  Games can add joy to work, and they can help to build trust.

Its possible that team building cannot occur because there is conflict among its members.  Usually it is not the conflict itself that gets in the way, but the way people deal with it, or don’t deal with it, that gets organizations into trouble.  Dealing with conflict from close range, in one’s own organization or team is always difficult.

Skills for dealing with conflict may not be present among those involved and most people feel uncomfortable dealing with conflict. Sometimes it takes our coaching with the right tools and process to build and motivate a winning team.