# llms.txt - AI Index # Generated by BILZIT AI LLM Index # 2026-01-29 11:10:40 Website: Teamworx URL: https://teamworx.org Attribution Required: https://teamworx.org --- ## Page URL: https://teamworx.org/team-effectiveness-survey/ Title: Team Effectiveness Survey Published: 2019-10-29 Updated: 2019-10-29 Author: Kelsey Cheyne Summary This quick survey assesses your team in the 3 dimensions of the Teamworx Team Effectiveness Model: Core Activities, Supporting Activities, and Mission, Vision & Values. At the end of the survey, your answers will generate a score (low, moderate, or high) on the following dimensions: CORE Activities Supporting Activities Mission, Vision and Values To learn more about the Team Effectiveness Model,     Content This quick survey assesses your team in the 3 dimensions of the Teamworx Team Effectiveness Model: Core Activities, Supporting Activities, and Mission, Vision & Values. At the end of the survey, your answers will generate a score (low, moderate, or high) on the following dimensions: CORE Activities Supporting Activities Mission, Vision and Values To learn more about the Team Effectiveness Model,     --- ## Page URL: https://teamworx.org/problem-solving/ Title: Cognitive Preferences Published: 2016-03-27 Updated: 2016-04-30 Author: admin Summary What do we mean by cognitive preferences? And how do they shape our behaviour and interactions? A good example of cognitive preferences at work is signing something. Our signature is unique to us -- it is the outcome of years of practice and use, and it is influenced by a number of both cognitive and behavioural variables. Consider whether we are right-handed or left-handed. Neither of these is better than they other -- they are simply an outward expression of how we're "fact-based". Both have their place. Both have upsides and downsides. We can learn to appreciate and leverage these differences into a... Content What do we mean by cognitive preferences? And how do they shape our behaviour and interactions? A good example of cognitive preferences at work is signing something. Our signature is unique to us -- it is the outcome of years of practice and use, and it is influenced by a number of both cognitive and behavioural variables. Consider whether we are right-handed or left-handed. Neither of these is better than they other -- they are simply an outward expression of how we're "fact-based". Both have their place. Both have upsides and downsides. We can learn to appreciate and leverage these differences into a much more powerful whole. Just as we can learn to be aware of our own preferences, appreciate those of our team mates, and accommodate -- and celebrate! -- the differences. --- ## Page URL: https://teamworx.org/about-us/ Title: About us Published: 2016-03-23 Updated: 2019-10-29 Author: admin Summary We are passionate that teams form the foundation of our collective working experience. Organizations that can inspire, develop and deploy effective teams will succeed where their competitors who cannot, will fail. The ability to form and focus as a team is a critical competence. Organizations that work to develop this competence are investing in the development of sustainable competitive advantage. We help our clients in a variety of ways: by helping them address current business issues and develop effective teams in the process, or by focusing our efforts on the development of the team itself. At Teamworx we use our Team Effectiveness™ model... Content We are passionate that teams form the foundation of our collective working experience. Organizations that can inspire, develop and deploy effective teams will succeed where their competitors who cannot, will fail. The ability to form and focus as a team is a critical competence. Organizations that work to develop this competence are investing in the development of sustainable competitive advantage. We help our clients in a variety of ways: by helping them address current business issues and develop effective teams in the process, or by focusing our efforts on the development of the team itself. At Teamworx we use our Team Effectiveness™ model to help leaders and teams reduce friction, politics, and dysfunctional behaviour to increase productivity and engagement. We help organizations align their business strategy with their planning and execution and other team activities in order to ensure that the work of the organization gets done. We take noise out of the system.   Ed McMahon Ed was inspired to create Teamworx and the Teamworx Team Effectiveness Model after years of experience working with teams of all kinds. In the course of his consulting career he has provided a broad range of business process, technology, and business strategy advice to clients, with a particular emphasis on helping clients develop and deploy more effective teams. Ed has held consulting management positions with a number of global consulting firms. His specialties include Organization Design and Organization Effectiveness, Business Transformation, Project Management, and Leadership and Team Effectiveness. He is the author of Bricks to Clicks: e-strategies that will transform your business, a best-selling business book. Ed holds a BA from the University of Windsor, and an MBA from the Schulich School of Business. Want to work with our team?  Submit Info Address:  3027 Harvester RoadBurlington, ONPhone: (905) 339-9502 --- ## Page URL: https://teamworx.org/contactus/ Title: Contact Us Published: 2016-03-22 Updated: 2019-10-29 Author: admin Summary contact us  Submit Info Address:  3027 Harvester RoadBurlington, ONPhone: (905) 339-9502 Content contact us  Submit Info Address:  3027 Harvester RoadBurlington, ONPhone: (905) 339-9502 --- ## Page URL: https://teamworx.org/what-we-do/ Title: The Teamworx Process Published: 2016-03-22 Updated: 2016-05-09 Author: admin Summary Identify participants and issue online invitations Collect preference data Schedule & conduct feedback sessions Review individual data Consolidate data at team level Review with sponsor Draft workshop materials Facilitate workshop discussions Document outcomes Review workshop outputs with team leader Prepare and deliver post-workshop materials Teamworx begins by collecting and sharing information about  These preferences about how we think and how we act shape our interactions with our team members and our environment.     Every individual on the team has a distinct set of cognitive preferences that influence how they communicate, frame business issues, gather information, make decisions, and act on the decisions they make.  Sharing preference data... Content Identify participants and issue online invitations Collect preference data Schedule & conduct feedback sessions Review individual data Consolidate data at team level Review with sponsor Draft workshop materials Facilitate workshop discussions Document outcomes Review workshop outputs with team leader Prepare and deliver post-workshop materials Teamworx begins by collecting and sharing information about  These preferences about how we think and how we act shape our interactions with our team members and our environment.     Every individual on the team has a distinct set of cognitive preferences that influence how they communicate, frame business issues, gather information, make decisions, and act on the decisions they make.  Sharing preference data helps each person on the team develop an in-depth awareness of their own unique preferences related to cognition and behaviour. These individual preferences are neither good nor bad, right nor wrong, better nor worse than the preferences of any other individual on the team. Our focus is on helping each individual understand how the world works for them. Working with the team leader, we craft a highly customized series of working sessions designed to engage the entire team. These working sessions create an appreciation among team members about how their preferences interact, and illustrate how these interactions can contribute to the team’s ability to work effectively together. Once we are clear on how the team’s preferences combine to create a unique team dynamic, we can focus on accommodation, helping team members leverage their individual diversities to even greater productivity. --- ## Page URL: https://teamworx.org/team-effectiveness-model/ Title: Effective Teams Published: 2016-03-22 Updated: 2019-10-29 Author: admin Summary Where are we going? What are we doing? And how are we doing it? Effective teams need to answer all of these important questions. The Teamworx Team Effectiveness Model™ is a basic framework used for discussing how teams work together. It helps team members more clearly understand how they engage in team activities — not only what they do, and how they do it, but where they are going as a team. The Five Core Activities — Initiate, Investigate, Decide, Plan and Execute — define what an Effective Team does. The Four Supporting Activities — Communicate, Resolve and Negotiate, Establish Accountability, and... Content Where are we going? What are we doing? And how are we doing it? Effective teams need to answer all of these important questions. The Teamworx Team Effectiveness Model™ is a basic framework used for discussing how teams work together. It helps team members more clearly understand how they engage in team activities — not only what they do, and how they do it, but where they are going as a team. The Five Core Activities — Initiate, Investigate, Decide, Plan and Execute — define what an Effective Team does. The Four Supporting Activities — Communicate, Resolve and Negotiate, Establish Accountability, and Continuously Improve determine the team's culture. And to be truly Effective, these activities all revolve around Mission, Vision, and Values, which provide shared direction and purpose for the team. Mission, Vision and Values A team’s Mission, Vision and Values articulate the most central principles for the team’s existence. Properly constructed and agreed, they set out the team’s purpose and direction. In addition, they are the indispensable building blocks of strategy. They guide the team in decision-making and actions in both the short and long term. Highly effective teams begin with a process to define Mission, Vision and Values and then periodically review and renew them as required. Mission A team’s Mission statement clarifies what it is currently seeking to do for its customers or stakeholders. It is a statement of purpose, and answers the questions “What is the team’s reason for existing?”, or “What are we trying to accomplish on behalf of our stakeholders?” An effective mission statement serves as a guide for day-to-day work as well as providing the foundation for future decision-making. In the absence of a clearly articulated mission, the team may lack direction. Vision The team’s vision provides a powerful and inspiring picture of the outcome the team seeks, at some point in the future. The Vision is designed to create a rallying point for the team’s overall efforts, expressed in a way that gives team members a larger sense of purpose. A good Vision statement uses language that creates an image that provokes emotion and excitement. Values A team’s values are fundamental and deeply held. They require no external justification, have intrinsic value and are important to everyone on the team. They do not change over time. Values are an implicit part of the promise of team membership, and establish for prospective and existing team members what they can expect from their teammates and team leaders. The five Core Activities describe what an effective team does. Teams that are nice to one another but which fail to achieve their business objectives — teams that, in the words of one of our clients “don’t put the puck in the net!” are not effective.   Highly Effective Teams consistently engage in these five core activities in order to ensure that things get done. Initiate At the outset of team formation, Effective Teams recognize, encourage and enable a sequence of activities designed to clarify the purpose and focus of the team and define team norms. Investigate Effective teams clarify the scope of their business activities and develop analytical frameworks suited to their business purpose. Decide Decision-making is a fundamental purpose for a team’s existence. The most effective teams develop and use a decision-making approach that enables timely decisions about the business issues within the team’s scope of responsibility. Plan Effective Teams make clear, comprehensive, cogent and actionable plans in order to address their business issues, communicate their plans and gain support for moving ahead in a purposeful way. Plans include benchmarks and milestones, and are geared to successful and predictable execution. Execute In order to resolve business issues and evolve the organization, Effective Teams execute on the plans that they have created. The four Supporting Activities describe how an effective team enables and supports its Core Activities. Teams that focus exclusively on getting things done (the Core Activities), without putting any effort into the culture of the team, are not sustainable. The four Supporting Activities enable teams to manage the inevitable interpersonal dynamics of working with other human beings, as well as providing the team with the tools for staying on track and rising to ever greater levels of productivity. Communicate Effective teams focus on clear and meaningful communications, recognizing that communications is a two-way street, which involves not only the person initiating the communication, but also those receiving the communication. Effective teams practice active listening techniques to ensure that their approach to communication is effective for everyone involved. Resolve and negotiate Teamwork inevitably involves differences of opinion, and potentially, unproductive conflict. Effective teams recognize that conflict can be productive when managed properly, and work together to create effective mechanisms for managing individual and team conflict in order to produce results. Establish accountability Accountability for business results is both personal and collective. Effective teams recognize that individual accountability is a means to achieving the team’s desired outcomes. They work together to create opportunities for personal accountability, and to provide methods for the team to keep itself on track. Continuously Improve Continuous improvement is an underlying principle of effective teams. In order for the team to contribute to the organization’s overall objectives of continuing to excel, effective teams create mechanisms to govern themselves and manage towards increasingly productive outcomes.   How Effective is your Team?   Let's Chat Submit Info Address:  3027 Harvester RoadBurlington, ONPhone: (905) 339-9502 --- ## Page URL: https://teamworx.org/about/first-new-page-i-added/ Title: Uniquely Ourselves Published: 2016-03-22 Updated: 2016-05-09 Author: admin Summary We believe that most people show up to work wanting to be a productive and contributing member of their team. But sometimes, all the things that make us uniquely ourselves -- how we think, communicate, and act on our decisions -- get in the way of our personal productivity and the effectiveness of our team. We help team members understand their individual -- the basic elements of identity that impact how they show up as individuals and shape how they interact with the rest of the team. Every individual on the team has a distinct set of  that influence how they communicate, frame business issues, gather... Content We believe that most people show up to work wanting to be a productive and contributing member of their team. But sometimes, all the things that make us uniquely ourselves -- how we think, communicate, and act on our decisions -- get in the way of our personal productivity and the effectiveness of our team. We help team members understand their individual -- the basic elements of identity that impact how they show up as individuals and shape how they interact with the rest of the team. Every individual on the team has a distinct set of  that influence how they communicate, frame business issues, gather information, make decisions, act on the decisions they make, and interact with their working environment. The differences in preferences between team members can sometimes be a tremendous source of synergy and inspiration. We have all been on teams that are truly "firing on all why can't people just get along? Why do I always seem to be intervening to settle things down and get the team to focus on its work?". We believe that the best teams (we call them highly effective teams) do some things and behave in ways that are teachable and learnable. These activities and behaviours can be put into practice by everyone. Forming an effective team can be accelerated -- if people on the team are aware of their own preferences, and how they interact with those of their team mates. We have developed a Team Effectiveness ModelTM that identifies these activities and behaviours in a way that can benefit any group of people that aspire to become a highly effective team. Acceptance and understanding of each team member’s individual preferences, strengths and opportunities for growth is critical to team effectiveness. Every effective team member can then go beyond personal awareness to add an appreciation for how teammates with different preferences direct their energies, gather information, process decisions and act on them. Finally, effective teams master accommodation - the art of leveraging the diversity of each individual’s preferences and approaches to produce superior outcomes.   --- ## Post URL: https://teamworx.org/uncategorized/hello-world/ Title: I'm editing this first post from hello world Published: 2016-03-21 Updated: 2020-02-14 Author: admin Summary Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! Content Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! --- ## Page URL: https://teamworx.org/ Title: Home Page Published: 2016-03-21 Updated: 2019-10-29 Author: admin Summary WHo we are:  Teamworx is an independent management consulting firm that specializes in helping teams become more effective. We use our proprietary  Team Effectiveness™model to help leaders and teams reduce friction and politics and increase productivity. We help organizations align their business strategy with their planning and execution processes in order to ensure that the work of the organization gets done.   Why Teamworx?  At Teamworx, we believe the ability to work effectively on a team, and to create and lead highly effective teams is more than just a core personal and business competency - it’s the foundation of effective leadership. Organizations and leaders that... Content WHo we are:  Teamworx is an independent management consulting firm that specializes in helping teams become more effective. We use our proprietary  Team Effectiveness™model to help leaders and teams reduce friction and politics and increase productivity. We help organizations align their business strategy with their planning and execution processes in order to ensure that the work of the organization gets done.   Why Teamworx?  At Teamworx, we believe the ability to work effectively on a team, and to create and lead highly effective teams is more than just a core personal and business competency - it’s the foundation of effective leadership. Organizations and leaders that invest in developing highly effective teams are creating sustainable competitive advantage. Organizations that don’t, often end up with ineffective teams that waste time and money. Dysfunctional teams ultimately become a disruptive and corrosive force, destroying morale and sapping the collective will to excel.Team applications: Effective teams engage in collaborative and purposeful problem solving. They leverage the collective intelligence of the entire team to create better solutions. They work to unlock the potential of each team member, so that the entire team can benefit from every team member's unique set of cognitive preferences. In order to get things done, effective teams make decisions. They know when to end the discussion and input stages of collaboration. They balance deliberation with decisiveness, and they know when it is time to make a decision that the entire team can get behind. Effective communication involves not only the ability to convey information, but also the ability to actively listen to what is being said, in order to benefit from the information being provided. Our cognitive preference affect both how (and how much) we express ourselves, and how we engage in listening. Effective teams know how to take advantage of each members' individual communication strengths, in order to clearly and cogently communicate to produce superior outcomes. Strategic planning involves envisioning our place in an increasingly uncertain future state. Thinking about the future – imagining, envisioning, innovating – all involve complex acts of cognition that call upon different cognitive preferences. Effective teams understand and engage the unique strengths of each team member in the process of creating their collective future. Making and executing plans involves making trade-offs between alternative courses of action. Some team members need to clearly understand the pathway to successful execution in order to embark on the journey, while others are content to "follow their text-align: center;">How Effective is your Team?  Hear What Our Clients Have to Say... “Our greatest opportunity has been to set stretch goals that everyone buys into and then to build plans that can be realistically implemented. Teamworx has worked with us to develop a tightly integrated planning process that has engaged our executive team constructively with each other. Together, we’ve set some very ambitious objectives. These have led us to create and execute plans that are having a strong impact on our business.” “We started with the Teamworx program for developing highly effective teams earlier this year. The insights that we’ve gained about how we work, individually and collectively, have helped to create a more cohesive and aware team. Our sessions produce insights the team can use every day — and they do!” “Integrating the Teamworx process into our strategic and operational planning efforts has resulted in a more focused and productive approach to planning. Our executives have gained insights into their own particular strengths and challenges as they engage in the planning exercise but more importantly, they have come to understand how to leverage their individual strengths to create superior results. These personal insights have lead to a more productive and cohesive team environment. 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