A ,, real" team is stronger,more creative and, under specific 
circumstances, decision are superior to single decision! 
It balances weakness - if applied properly, staff-turn-over, 
absenteesism and inner notice will decrease significally! 
The team smoothly aligns and develops co-workers, who are 
not yet able or willing to perform well i nthe company! 

Make it happen with
Prof Dr Karl Wagner
Author of the book "Practical Leadership"
Managerial Social Scientist 
Specialist in Teamwork, Change Management and Leadership

Performance of a "Real" Team

• Fast Reaction
• Qualitatively better solutions!
• High-grade motivation!
• Joint "Commitment"
• Creative solutions for complex problems!
• Joint learning

For a team, we need different personalities and their individual qualities:

The Open personality.
Has good and overwhelming ideas and likes to try out new approaches. He or she can help the team in utilising its creative resources and aligning them with the company’s needs.
The Analytic personality is careful, precise, reasonable, questioning.
The contribution of this person is to caution the team to set realistic targets and to be 
task-orientated.
The Neutral personality is patient, enduring, relaxed, mindful.
He or she is both the harmonizer of the team when it comes to conflicts and the person who might help when the mood is down to zero.
The Relational personality is sociable, likes to talk and negotiate, is liked by others.
The team benefit of this person is to be the social-emotional leader  and to represent the team in the face of other teams and departments
The Decisive personality is demanding, target-orientated, has a strong will.
Under productive circumstances, this person will take risks and delegate responsibilities and, by this, prevents the team from being paralyzed by nowhere leading discussions.
 

THE END RESULT:
The team becomes a great place to work and its members are successful, adaptive, energetic, efficient and resilient. 
 

2. Individuals who want to enhance their ability to work within teams and try out team work

3. Researchers and academics interested in the practical application of teamwork to assist as observers and feedback-givers.
 

TEAM ATTENDANCE HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
This is to facilitate successful implementation of the theory learned and establish a common framework to practice in real-life environment.

Certificate of Participation will be awarded.
 

“We have a bulk of prime rate single-workers – but indeed we are not yet a true team in the proper sense of meaning.”

“We have introduced team work within the whole company. But we could not, though, create an atmosphere for the staff to work together successfully”.

“With our economic results we could be satisfied on the whole. But, during the last period of time, the tail wags the dog. We seem to go round in circles… We all have the genuine feeling: we could achieve more, but we do not know how.”
 

Typical starting points like these turn many modern teams out to act only as a weak team or even a so-called “pseudo team”. By two sorts of scientifically grounded profiling it is possible to build or develop a team: 
a)  The workshop utilises the idea of the LEONARD Personality Inventory on individuals to scrutinize modern teamwork from a practical team-oriented point of view. Team members systematically become aware of actual interactive problems often more concealed rather than revealed by traditional team meetings. 
b)  Moreover, the workshop provides a situational approach and sheds light on typical issues of particular teams by practical exercises. With real existing teams, it finally will end up defining concrete agenda for practical work and focusing on goal agreements to productively further the cooperation between its members.
 
 

Special Program Feature

The team approach to enhance  teambuilding & team development Introduction interviews and pretest with managers and team members to gain a comprising understanding of the team’s situation (option, if conducted for an existing team) Scientific analysis of the 10 most important team success factors by the Team Inventory and presentation of the core issues that confront the own team at that point in time Accordingly, training and focusing on critical factors within a tailor-made team event on the 3-4 most outstanding critical factors (option: outdoor elements) Individual and collective feedback rounds, individual goals on own team issues Follow-up seminar (option if conducted for an existing team)

   PROF. DR. KARL WAGNER graduated with a Diploma (similar to Master Degree) both in Sociology and Business Administration, which he received from the University of Munich in 1987. Since 1991, he had held several senior positions in the corporate sector before he became a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Rosenheim / Germany in 1993. Together with his partners, Prof. Wagner provides consultancy and training primarily in the field of human resource management, leadership and change management. He was awarded a scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service to research the former German Democratic Republic in Berlin. By his thesis on that topic, he took his German Ph.D. at the Faculty of Economy at the University of Münster in 1991 and spent the next three years as a HR-manager in industry. This was followed by another seven years of holding a tenure ship at the University of Applied Sciences Rosenheim, specialising again in HR-management and organisational development. Prof. Wagner also has been head of the study branch on Human Resource Management. 

    Prof. Wagner was also responsible for the conceptualisation, planning and implementation of several flexi-time models in German industry. One of them, conducted for one of the most excellent internationally operating office furniture producer, saved the company 2.6 million RM within the first year of use. He is the founder president of the Human Resource Circle providing an Internet platform for both his graduates and HR-managers who collaborate with the University in terms of practical projects and recruitment. 

    Prof. Dr. Karl Wagner has served as a resource person on HR management and customer orientation projects to larger German companies like BMW, Steelcase Germany or the German Railway Company. Recently, he has conducted team workshops for some leading hospitals for professionals, teachers and students. During the last 3 years, Prof. Wagner has also received wide international exposure and reputation, especially in Malaysia and recently in Thailand. In 1998, during his sabbatical semester he was offered an internship for 1st Silicon, Kuching Sarawak. For this Malaysian-German joint venture building project - these days the tallest one in Malaysia’s semi-conductor-industry- he was responsible for team building and development. He became one of the initial lecturers when the new CMBA-program for University Malaysia Sarawak was launched in 1999.

    Prof. Dr. Karl Wagner is the author of the book: MODERN PRACTICAL LEADERSHIP. Prof. Wagner has served as a columnist in the Malaysian German Chamber quarterly magazine and also written numerous articles in many other magazines in Germany. In recognition of his expertise, he has been invited by UM and UNITEN to conduct seminars on Change Management for the private and the public sector in Malaysia. For Cathay Pacific Airways and 1st Silikon, he has worked on different team development projects. Together with his experiences in South East Asia, Prof. Wagner possesses wide-ranging experience at the hinge between advanced Business Administration and practical Social Science. Furthering on the applied side, he has delivered workshops for corporate organizations like TEC Asia, Malaysian-German Chamber of Commerce or the Pantai Hospital Group. 

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