WELCOME

Well, we’re happy to announce that we’ve caught up with the 21st century, and have created a City Beach Team Performance Center blog.  We’d like to welcome you to its first official entry. 

Through our programs and workshops each year, we have the privilege of interacting with a broad representation of successful corporations, academic institutions, professional firms, and community-based groups from throughout Northern California.  Many of these organizations have grown and developed into entities with a truly global influence. 

As a result, the Team Performance Center (TPC)  has a very unique opportunity to constantly expand our own perspectives and sense of expertise in the field of Team and Leadership Development. 

Rather than being limited to recycling someone else’s facts and research as the basis for what we do, we are fortunate to consider ourselves somewhat of a dynamic laboratory and testing ground for best practices in team performance.  Through our ongoing client-TPC encounters, we generate first-hand empirical data that become cornerstones for designing new and innovative programs, curricula, workshops, and research articles. It only seems fitting, then, that we embrace the responsibility to openly share some of the insights gained with our community. 

We are honored that you’ve taken the time to refer to our Team Performance Center blog and its associated resources.  We understand that your time is valuable and limited.  So, whether or not you ever take part in one of our programs, workshops, or trainings, our hope is that the simple act of accessing our website will add measurable value to you and your organization.

Many of the future blog entries you’ll read here will be authored by either Jeff Costello or Wendy Lim (the Executive Director and Associate Director of the Team Performance Center, respectively).  Between the two of them, Jeff and Wendy have logged nearly 30 years of direct experience in Team and Leadership Development, Organizational Development, and Professional Training. 

Their vast array of diverse delivery modalities - from the boardroom, to the classroom, to the workshop setting, to the challenge ropes course - are all grounded in the principle of Experiential Learning, which holds that learning though active participation is the most effective method for passing on information and having it “stick” with the recipient.   

On occasion, we may also post cutting-edge articles authored by fellow thought leaders in the field of Team and Leadership Development.  Perhaps we’ll discover a few gems of professional advice, emerging thoughts on best practices, or a set of facts that seem so insightful as to offer unquestionable value to our readers.  When this is the case, we may also post that information here.  Whenever appropriate, we’ll try to “mix things up” and keep our presentation style fresh and lively.  As always, we welcome your feedback and questions any time.  Have fun, and happy reading!  Now, let’s get started…

Cheers,
Jeff, Wendy, and the rest of the TPC Team