Team Building
Building successful, productive teams

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Case Study: Motorola

Motorola suceeds in the fast-pace, high-tech marketplace. The ability to create and implement strategy quickly is key to Motorola's success. Outside Insights has partnered with Motorola to design and deliver high performance strategic meetings for worldwide management teams from R&D, Finance, IT, Supply Management and HR. Outside Insights approach has been to frontload the strategic meetings with activities and conversations designed to help develop participants' ability to communicate effectively. Simply put, we integrate team-building with strategic planning for Motorola.

We design the session this way because it works. We don't "do team building" simply for fun. We design the session so participants in the meeting can be highly effective both individually and collectively. Implementation of the strategy is guaranteed because of the team cohesion and commitment built through the process. Rather than spending three days in conflict about strategic choices and budgets, we can spend one day building the high performance meeting environment and one day building the strategy. Participants leave with a clear understanding of priorities and a commitment to implement the plan.

"We turn to Outside Insights when it is crucial to get people thinking differently about old problems. They have taken the time to understand us, our culture and how we think, and can design programs to match our expectations and cultural nuances. Outside Insights has truly become a first-class partner."

Gary Langley,
Director of HR Strategy, Motorola