Team development - Team building

If you want to achieve good results, you need to have a high performance team around you. This is true regardless if you are in business or sports. In order to be able to create a high performing team, my experience is that the team members need to understand themselves, who they are, what drives them, what their strong sides are - and they need to understand the same things about their colleagues and team players. What they are good at, why they react in a certain way, what makes them tick or not. You need to create understanding and trust.

This doesn’t happen by itself and it doesn’t come easy. You need to build it up step by step, depending on your current situation and the composition of your team.

I have tried to build my teams like this during my 25+ year career within the Supply Chain trade and I know I have to depend on a professional partner to help me along this journey.

At my time at LEGO, I had the pleasure to work together with Profound at to separate occasions, with two separate teams. I enjoyed the open and flexible approach Profound came into the task with and their ability to create tailored solutions, including both traditional and untraditional methods and techniques. Profound definitely helped me to develop these two teams in a successful way.

Lars Altemark

Global Supply Chain Manager

ICC

Recruitment/Head Hunting

“During the past three years, pro:found has recruited 7 people for my organization, about half of which was at Director level. Most often you hire people based on competencies and fire them due to behaviour - hence an important parameter in a recruiting process is to ensure that personality dimensions are being assessed thoroughly.

In this respect working with Thomas in recruiting processes has been a pleasant surprise. He understands that the persons I am looking for need to fit into a team and he does an extra effort to understand the dynamics of my team.

Another quality I appreciate is his thoroughness. He is canny when testing people and can provide me with highly relevant perspectives. At the same time he is bold but very honest in his reports, both to me and to the applicants. I am happy to recommend Thomas as a business partner. TN”

Vice President

TN

Global Manufactoring

Leadership Team development

“pro:found has been an excellent sparring partner and active coach in bringing our leadership team from level 1 to level 5 in the Drexller-Sibbet High Performance team model. Furthermore he has contributed significantly by search and recruitment of key competences/people as well as assessing competences linked to an individual development plan of all employees in our area.”

Vice President

Egil Møller Nielsen

Global Distribution Logistics

LEGO

Leadership Team development in Kina

"In my role as General Manager for LEGO i Hong Kong, I hired pro:found for developing my Leadership Team, and I was quite curious to see just how pro:found would handle a Team of Chinese Leaders. The consultant had a talk with all the members of the Team prior to the actual development process, and spent most of day  "warming them up", by discussing chinese culture and cultural differences to the Western world.

Towards the end of day one and particularly the beginning of day two, my leaders started to participate enthusiatically, and step by step they opened up with regards to talking openly about themselves and their colleagues in the Team.

Pending this session we continued the development ourselves - although there is no doubt in my mind, that the session with pro:found opened up new opportunities in terms of cooperative intimacy. I give pro:found my firm recommendations."

Carsten Rasmussen

Managing Director, LEGO                                                                                                                                                             

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