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 Projects 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 Projects 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, its 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 were 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. TRPs 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 its one of the best experiences theyve ever had. Thats all very nice to hear, but were 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 thats 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!"