Desired outcome · Leadership
Team Building for Leadership
Programs built for managers and leadership teams: DiSC, Myers-Briggs and Belbin assessments, coaching and delegation workshops, and facilitated challenges that surface how a team actually leads.
- 10,000+ programs delivered since 2010
- Professional hosts and facilitators on every program
- Groups from 30 to 6,000+
- No added travel costs in the continental U.S.
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Rough headcount, city and date are plenty. A program specialist replies the same business day.
- Programs with a leadership outcome
- 27
- Typical length
- 2 hours to one day
- Formats
- In-person and virtual
- Founded
- 2010
What is leadership team building?
Leadership team building is a facilitated program whose purpose is to change how a group of managers or executives leads, not just to entertain them. At BEST it takes two forms: assessment-based workshops (DiSC, Myers-Briggs, Belbin, Colors) that give each leader a shared vocabulary for their own style and their team's, and applied programs (Igniting Team Performance, Competition to Collaboration, Manager's Guide to Business Coaching) where the group works through progressively harder challenges and debriefs what happened.
Every program is led by a professional facilitator, runs from two hours to a full day, and closes with a debrief on what the group will do differently. The tags on each program page under Goals & Outcomes show which programs are built for individual and team development and which for communication.
Three ways to build leaders in a room
- Assess, then apply
- DiSC, Myers-Briggs, Belbin and Colors workshops start with each leader's profile and spend the session on how the styles in the room work together.
- Coach the coaches
- Manager's Guide to Business Coaching and Delegation Styles are one-day and half-day workshops on the two skills managers are promoted without.
- Lead under pressure
- Igniting Team Performance and Competition to Collaboration put the team through timed challenges and a structured debrief after each round, so leadership habits show up in the open.
When leadership teams book these
Executive retreats and offsites, new-manager cohorts, post-merger leadership teams learning to work together, and annual leadership meetings that want a working session rather than another deck.
What a leadership program day looks like
A facilitator meets the sponsor in advance to set the outcomes the group needs.
Assessments are completed online before the day and debriefed in the room.
Challenges run in rounds of activity, discussion and application to the team's real work.
The session closes with a debrief on what the group will take back to its work.
Leadership programs
Assessments, coaching workshops and applied programs. Filter by in-person or virtual.
Igniting Team Performance®
This exclusive training will guide your team through a progressive series of engaging initiatives followed by rich processing discussions focused on…
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DiSC Workshop
The DiSC Workshop is a powerful professional development experience designed to enhance individual self-awareness, improve team communication, and…
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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Training
Our MBTI training workshop uses the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment to help individuals and teams uncover their personality preferences…
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Belbin Behavioral Assessment
The Belbin 360° assessment is a tool used to evaluate an individual’s strengths and weaknesses within a team setting.
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Colors Behavioral Assessment
COLORS is a quick Behavioral Assessment, a simplified version of a 4-quadrant instrument.
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Manager’s Guide to Business Coaching
Constructive guidance and consistent coaching are critical responsibilities of all managers, but the best managers have a coaching style which is…
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Delegation Styles
This Delegation Styles course discusses how to better diagnose employees’ needs, effectively delegate, and set them up for success.
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Conflict Resolution Training
Managing conflict can be the difference between a simple “bump in the road” or lost productivity and long-term animosity in the workplace.
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Emotional Intelligence Training
An Emotionally Intelligent company is one in which each member understands their Emotional Quotient (E.Q.) and how best to tap into it for…
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Competition to Collaboration®
Our engaging, trademarked training program that highlights the positive impacts of organizational synergy, both in sharing best practices and…
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Building Your Hybrid Team
This custom virtual workshop will give you and your hybrid team a roadmap for moving forward while helping to organize yourselves for increased…
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Virtual Coaching and Feedback
Increase your ability and skill to provide virtual coaching and feedback that is engaging and effective.
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Virtual DiSC Behavioral Assessment
Our “Virtual DiSC Behavioral Assessment” workshop is a response to the sudden changes in the way in which organizations and employees work with each…
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Leading Virtual Teams
This virtual workshop will allow you to hone your skills as a leader and manager of virtual teams.
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The Igniting Team Performance event at the One Ocean Resort yesterday was “Outstanding”!! Your lead facilitator did an incredible job in getting that event completed in 2 hours. Our client was absolutely thrilled with the exercise and the results. The great debrief overview at the end and the client was very impressed. I watched and saw the team morph from ‘oh here we are another event again’ to totally immersed in the exercises and the results. The client was providing feedback and commentary on what they were learning, etc. I was in the corporate world for over 33 years and never had a team-building event done as exceptional this one. Truly remarkable, I was very impressed. I can really se
Gary
Active Escapes
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Frequently asked questions
How long is a leadership team building program?
Assessment workshops (DiSC, Myers-Briggs, Belbin, Colors, Delegation Styles) run 3 to 4 hours. Igniting Team Performance runs 2 to 3 hours. Manager's Guide to Business Coaching and Conflict Resolution Training are one-day programs.
How many leaders can take part?
The assessment and coaching workshops accept any group size and are usually run for a leadership team or manager cohort. Competition to Collaboration scales up to 1,000+ for large leadership meetings.
Can we run leadership team building virtually?
Yes. Virtual DiSC, Virtual Coaching and Feedback, Leading Virtual Teams and Building Your Hybrid Team are built for distributed leadership teams of up to 20 or 25, depending on the program.
Is this training or team building?
Both, deliberately. The workshops are professional development with a facilitator and an assessment behind them; the applied programs are team building whose debriefs are about leadership. Most leadership teams pair one of each across a retreat.
Do participants take an assessment before the session?
Yes, for DiSC, Myers-Briggs, Belbin and Colors. Participants complete the assessment online before the day and the trainer debriefs the results in the room. The assessment and profile materials are an additional cost; the workshop design and a certified trainer are included.
Who leads a leadership program?
A certified trainer for the assessment workshops, DiSC-certified and MBTI-certified for those two, and a professional facilitator for the applied programs and the coaching and delegation workshops.
Where can a leadership session run?
At your office, an offsite venue or a conference hotel, in a room set classroom style or with round tables sized to the group. Delivered nationwide with no added travel costs in the continental U.S., or live over video conferencing for a distributed team.
Plan a leadership session
Tell us the team, the date and what needs to change. A program specialist will match an assessment or an applied program and send a proposal the same day.