Who We Serve
Professional Offices | Boards of Directors | Senior Management | Working Couples

Professional Offices
The offices of Lawyers, Accountants, Engineers, Architects, etc. are challenged by a unique set of circumstances. The pressure of deadlines, client relationships, and office politics are often enormous.

• Time is the commodity in shortest supply; it is the resource that most often lies beneath most stress.
• Communication and cooperation amongst the professionals themselves, and the professionals and the support staff are often strained by the pressure of time and client expectations.
• Clients are under their own set of stressful circumstances, and bring this stress to their interactions with the professionals and their staff.

In the case of a law office, for example, clients can be at their most vulnerable and under the greatest stress of their lives when interacting with their attorney. For the attorney/client relationship to be productive under such circumstances, an attorney must look beyond the surface issues and deal with the client's fears. This requires skills gained through experience, the information provided by Myers-Briggs Type knowledge, and understanding the elements of Emotional Intelligence.

Such training can also assist attorneys in such matters as:

• Negotiating skills
• Speed reading people's Type
• Jury selection

In all professions, knowledge of one's own preferences for communication and the preferences of others is critical to minimizing the stresses of the workday, and maximizing client satisfaction. Teamswork can maximize the effectiveness of your professional, support staff, and client relationships through our workshops.

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Boards of Directors
Teamswork understands that an organization takes its tenor from on high. If the Board of Directors functions as skilled communicators among themselves: open, understanding and respectful, then implementing the same style in the rest of the organization will be a logical outgrowth of such leadership. Unfortunately, it is easier for Directors to focus on the business skills that they have developed over a professional lifetime than it is for them to delve into the less concrete factors that help the Board function better as a group.

There are unique challenges to Directors working well together:

• Outside (independent) Directors do not work together on a daily basis, therefore they need to have key skills to work effectively to maximize their productivity during the brief, intense times they are together.
• Their work should be a collaboration of diverse skills. Not just the skills of business, but the skills afforded by different preferences for communication and working styles.
• Boards frequently achieve a pleasant working environment by seeking homogeneity amongst Directors, thus missing the opportunity for the creativity fostered by diversity.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 regulates only publicly traded companies, but the effect of this legislation has been to set a new de facto standard of governance for privately held firms as well. Respect for diverse preferences for management styles, and open and honest debate about business policy underlie successful compliance with the new standards for business governance.

Teamswork understands these challenges and works with clients to create effective and productive Boards of Directors via customized workshops.

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Senior Management
What is the best management style?  Teamswork will show you that the answer depends upon three factors:

1. The style and innate preferences of the manager
2. The business situation at a particular point in time
3. The style and innate preferences of the individual team members

Thus, achieving the results you want as a manager is largely dependent upon:

1. Understanding yourself: your strengths, limitations and preferences
2. Understanding others: their strengths, limitations and preferences
3. Self-management (using the knowledge of 1. above) and
4. Relationship management (using the knowledge of 1. and 2. above)

By understanding and integrating the principals of Emotional Intelligence and Myers-Briggs Type preferences, Teamswork will show you the path to leadership success.

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Working Couples
During every workshop, participants invariably observe, “I can't wait for my (wife/husband/significant other) to learn about Type!” It is true: when it comes to understanding personality types, what is good for the workplace is good for the home and the family.

This realization led Randy to develop a workshop called Husbands, Wives, Home, and Workplace. It is intended to help working couples to use Type knowledge for greater success in the workplace, and the home. The workshop leads to a greater understanding of yourself, your coworkers, your partner, and even your children. Randy and his wife, Ginny, have found the MBTI to be their most important parenting tool for understanding and communicating with their three children. Additionally, Type knowledge exercised in the home and workplace is reinforced 24 X 7!

Business leaders: Give this workshop as a gift to your management team, or any employee group, and give a gift to yourself of a more productive and enjoyable workplace.

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