Team Renewal Project Launches Nonprofits to Championship Teamwork
Team Renewal Project (TRP), based in San Francisco and Los Angeles, has recently opened its doors. Co-founded by Jack Pelton and Kenneth Goodpaster, TRP develops services and programs to champion the teamwork and leadership of nonprofits and public service organizations around the globe. Team Renewal Project’s premier service is its Communication, Teamwork & Leadership Program, which begins with a 2 ½-day training and is followed up by six months of coaching.
(PRWEB) September 21, 2004 -- Team Renewal Project (TRP), based in San
Francisco and Los Angeles, has recently opened its doors. Co-founded by Jack
Pelton and Kenneth Goodpaster, TRP develops services and programs to champion
the teamwork and leadership of nonprofits and public service organizations
around the globe.
Team Renewal Project’s premier service is its
Communication, Teamwork & Leadership Program, which begins with a 2 ½-day
training and is followed up by six months of coaching.
Jack Pelton,
President of TRP, describes it this way, “Every business works through teams –
including nonprofit and public service organizations. In fact, for nonprofits
working on a tight budget, it’s effective teamwork that produces
results.”
His business partner and Vice President, Kenneth Goodpaster,
continued, “The Team Renewal Project energizes teams, builds leadership
capacity, and develops ongoing programs to sustain team effectiveness. Through
the CTL Program, team members within our client organizations become powerful,
effective partners in fulfilling their mission and producing results for the
communities they serve.”
Mr. Pelton agreed by saying, “What we’re about
is taking the staff and volunteers of an organization from a group of people who
simply show up to do a job, or fill a slot on the roster, into something far
more effective: A Championship Team.”
Mr. Goodpaster, who leads the CTL
Program, explained more about how the service works. “TRP’s Communication,
Teamwork & Leadership Program provides the tools needed to increase
productivity and produce measurable results by restoring true teamwork to the
organization. The program also develops strong collaborations between the board,
management, departments, staff, and volunteers.
“The heart of our program
is the Communication, Teamwork & Leadership Course (CTL), a comprehensive 2
½-day workshop designed to enhance performance by shifting and revitalizing what
we call the ‘culture of communication’ throughout an organization.”
“Then
the concepts learned in the CTL Course are supported by six months of
follow-through coaching,” continued Mr. Pelton. “During the coaching program,
leaders who were resigned become energized. Individuals who felt frustrated
become invigorated. Teams become regenerated and powerful in creating long-term
results.”
While all of this may sound too good to be true, the program
has already proven it can deliver the goods. The CTL Program has been
implemented in Zagreb, Croatia for Horizont, a community-based organization that
was on the brink of dissolving. Ante Glavas, President and founder of Horizont
said, “The course came at the perfect time. With the help of the CTL, we were
able to form a powerful vision, to define certain models for communication and
teamwork, and most importantly to form a true team of committed
people.”
Horizont went from having only nine volunteers to having 14,000
participants in their programs. They received funding from the Croatian federal
government, and the support of corporations such as Microsoft, Johnson &
Johnson, Coca-Cola, and Siemens. Mr. Glavas was admittedly grateful. “The course
was a rocket platform, which launched us. It is exciting to see how a few days
of building up a team atmosphere, mutual understanding, and coexistence can
result in very tangible plans for how we can impact the country and others
around the world.”
The CTL produced similarly impressive results with
Fundatia Copii Fericiti, an educational organization in Cluj-Napoca and created
as an answer to the Communist-era authoritarian-style schools that persist in
modern Romania. Simona Baciu, founder and Director of Fundatia, related her
frustrating experiences in trying to change the educational system. “Before the
CTL, most of the goals (of Fundatia) were merely good ideas with little or no
plan for their accomplishment. At the government level, my ideas were met with a
great deal of skepticism and doubt. No one would listen to us. The course took
these good ideas and put them on a very clear roadmap for bringing them into
reality.”
After implementing the concepts from the CTL, Mrs. Baciu was
invited by the Romanian President of the Education Commission to speak before
the National Parliament in Bucharest. The President introduced her by saying, “I
now give you Mrs. Simona Baciu, who runs the best school in our
country.”
She spoke to us from her small but comfortable office, inside a
brightly-colored and decidedly cheerful elementary school bustling with hundreds
of smiling and eager children. Through the window outside, one can see a
neighborhood still ravaged by almost fifty years of economic ruin and cultural
strife from the former Communist regime.
For her, this school is a
miracle. She is still surprised by how quickly the results came after the CTL.
“The National Ministry of Education has fully accredited our private institution
as the premier model for Romania, and we are discussing plans for opening a
national training center.”
Jack Pelton explained that the CTL Program is
more than just another experience that brings the staff and volunteers in a
nonprofit closer, though that does happen. “Yes, it is a profound and exciting
program. Most people who take the course say it’s one of the best experiences
they’ve ever had. That’s all very nice to hear, but we’re not about giving
people a good time. Without tangible, measurable results, it would be nothing
more than that: A good time.”
Kenneth Goodpaster emphasized his point by
saying, “By the end of the 2 ½-day course, the participants create a project
that’s designed to anchor the concepts learned from the CTL. More importantly,
that Championship Team will learn to set goals and produce extraordinary
results.”
Mr. Goodpaster smiled, “And the best part? We guarantee
it!”
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