Team Development & Team Building

Using proven models for developing high performance teams, Jane has been helping organizations for over 25 years to realize and optimize their capability via teamwork.

Her methods are practical and results-based, focusing on achieving the specific team’s goals and objectives and clarifying the roles and responsibilities of the members who comprise the team.  Additionally, by explicitly establishing key team processes, she helps the team become more effective immediately.  Finally, Jane works to examine and reinforce the healthy interpersonal relationships critical to success, including, as necessary, conflict intervention and resolution among individual members or existing throughout an organization or team.

When working with New Product Development and Customer Relationship teams, Jane helps ensure a consistent process, defining the role of senior management in program oversight, clarifying functional deliverables to the team, ensuring supporting infrastructure and processes are in place, and defining the necessary development and recognition systems to ensure institutionalization of the new product or service delivery system. 

With Executive and Departmental teams, Jane works to ensure visions, missions, and values are in place, helps establish  strategic plans and operational objectives, designs leadership development systems, sets up systems to monitor performance and results, and works with the team to ensure their communication is clear, their decision making is thorough, and their meetings are effective.  Finally, Jane works with the team on their interpersonal relationships, using Myers-Briggs as a tool to increase appreciation and valuing of natural style differences, modulate conflict, and capitalize on synergies. 

She is often called in to start teams off on the right foot, in addition to facilitating interventions in teams that have gotten off track due to unresolved conflict, unclear processes, or any other barrier that obstructs team effectiveness.

Management, Leadership, & Executive Development & Coaching

Jane also is expert in designing, developing, and facilitating Management & Executive Education, on topics ranging from Performance Management to Business Process Re-engineering, from Career Development to Conflict Resolution, and from Strategic Planning to Surviving Organization Change.   She often is called upon to coach executives and managers in specific developmental areas critical to their individual success as well as design organization-wide leadership development systems affecting all leaders/managers in a company.  She also greatly enjoys and is extremely effective teaching consulting skills to Human Resources professionals interested in establishing true business partnerships with their internal clients through effective organization consulting.

External Teaching

Jane guest lectures on Teams at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, at the Executive Development Program at USC, and at the Stanford Executive Summer Series.  She also is on the Faculty for the Anderson Consulting  and accenture Development Center focused on New Product Development Teams.

She also teaches both Managing Large Scale Change and Managing the Virtual Workforce in the Professional Development Department at San Jose State, Certificate Program for Human Resources Management.