Team-Building Services
Wherever your team is now, team building sessions from Leadership Team Services (LTS) can help raise the level of your team's effectiveness. Choose from a variety of in-district team building and assessment options to help your board-superintendent team reach a higher standard of performance and leadership.
Team building is an annual requirement of board-superintendent teams. Make the most of the requirement. Call LTS for a session customized to fit your team's specific needs and find out why districts say they accomplish more and have fun when they invite our consultants to facilitate their team building sessions.
What's required
From 19 TAC Chapter 61, Subchapter A, 
61.1. (b)(2)
- An annual team building session
- All board members and superintendent attending
- Generally at least three hours
- Activity that enhances team effectiveness
- Assessment of continuing education needs
Why call TASB for your team building session?
- All sessions meet the legal requirements
- All sessions are customized to address your needs
- All sessions are conveniently conducted in your district and comply with the open meetings law
- All sessions include an assessment of continuing education needs
What do you want to accomplish in your teambuilding session?
Your team building session will be more productive and seem like less of a chore if you decide together as a team, in advance, what you'd like to accomplish with the time you reserve. To do this, post "team building options" on an agenda and at the meeting discuss what kinds of activities might benefit the team. Discuss and agree on an activity that you think will help the team improve its working relationships. Then decide on a good time to get all team members together and who could best facilitate the activity. Below are a few of the objectives LTS's consultants can help your team accomplish in a team building workshop.
Clarify roles and relationships
We can help your team members understand each other better and agree on ways to work together more effectively with sessions that address teams in transition, ethical behaviors, team operating procedures, and different personality and work styles.
Set priorities
We can guide your team in agreeing on goals for the district, for superintendent performance, or for the board itself.
Assess performance and plan for improvements
Using TASB’s Board Effectiveness Audit or other self-assessment instruments, we can help your team identify areas for improvement and develop a plan for making and tracking progress.
Improve community relations
We can help your team identify key communication challenges and differences in values that may create division or inhibit community participation. Then we will guide you in mapping strategies for explaining information and needs in a way that reaches your audiences more effectively.
Worried about cost? Host a multi-district workshop and save!
When two or more districts conduct a workshop together, each pays just half price! Team-building topics are limited for these sessions. Call for more information.
Call us to schedule a session
To find out more about team building options from LTS or check available dates, contact lts@tasb.org or call us at 512-467-0222, extension 6161.