1. Accelerated Team Performance
An overview of David Kantor’s approach to building sustainable team performance

2. The substantial benefits of teamwork are rarely realized within organizations today
EFFECTIVE TEAMWORK
High quality results
Leverages collective wisdom
Increases learning
Builds commitment
Improves accountability
TYPICAL TEAMWORK
Communication differences
Personality clash
Unclear roles
Politics related to authority and power
Unproductive conflict

3. Builds sustainable adaptive capabilities within the team
David Kantor’s Accelerated Team Performance (ACTP) model builds sustainable capabilities within teams
Introduces a neutral, structural language to describe patterns of successful and unsuccessful behavior
Provides a quantitative assessment of current behaviors through observation and analysis
Predicts ways in which the team will get “stuck” and provides actionable solutions that can be implemented without outside support
Demonstrates measurable improvement in overall team effectiveness within an accelerated timeframe
Builds sustainable adaptive capabilities within the team

4. David Kantor’s model has been rigorously and scientifically validated over the last 30 years
ACTP model is derived the theory of Structural Dynamics which is based on 50 years of research including a large scale empirical study
Major multinational organizations have relied upon Structural Dynamics for over a decade to drive high performance from both individual leaders and teams

5. The three stages of the ACTP model build the team’s long-term communicative competency
PHASE 1
PHASE 2
Diagnosis
Debrief
Progress Assessment
A Structural Dynamics consultant sits in on typical team meetings
Team members complete the Kantor Behavioral Baseline assessment
An additional 3-5 team meetings are recorded for quantitative analysis
A Structural Dynamics practitioner leads a half day working session to do the following:
Debrief the individual and team behavioral profiles
Present a quantitative analysis of behavioral patterns within the team and host group reflection
Articulate the critical business deliverables for the next 6 week period
Set specific team improvement goals
Team applies the new insight in its work
A Structural Dynamics consultant sits in on additional meetings
3-5 team meetings are recorded for quantitative analysis
The impact is assessed and debriefed in a half day working session with the team 12 weeks after the program was initiated

6. No other team development process includes the level of rigor and scientific validation as the ACTP
Included in the Phase 1 ACTP process:
Individual Kantor Baseline Behavioral Profiles for each of the members of the team
A Kantor Baseline Behavioral Profile featuring predictive analysis on team dynamics
A quantitative and qualitative analysis of team behavioral patterns based on in-person observation as well as offline analysis
A half day facilitated debrief with specific recommendations for how the team can maximize performance
Included in the Phase 2 ACTP process:
A quantitative and qualitative analysis of team performance improvements based on in-person observation as well as offline analysis
A half day facilitated reflection session on progress made enacting new team behaviors
Final recommendations for building on and sustaining progress
$14,000
$11,000

7. David Kantor, Ph.D., Inventor of Structural Dynamics and The Accelerated Team Performance Model
Over the past fifty years, David Kantor, Ph.D., has been instrumental in bringing his unique model and counseling expertise to families, couples, organizations, leaders and interventionists as they work to achieve success through generative relationships with others. David began his career as a clinical psychologist and lecturer in Harvard University’s Department of Social Relations. From 1965 to 1975, he was an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine and served as the Director of Psychological Research and later as Chief Psychologist at Boston State Hospital. He also founded and became director of the Boston Family Institute, the first systems training program in Massachusetts, The Kantor Family Institute, and The Center for Training in Family Therapy at Boston State Hospital.
In the 1980s and 90s, David began introducing his models to businesses, top-level executives, and organizational consultants, among them Arthur D. Little, Innovation Associates, MIT’s Dialogue Project, Origins, and Dialogos. From to 2009, David served as a Thought Leader and Partner at Monitor Group where he facilitated large-scale change to Fortune 100 companies.
During his career, David has trained over a thousand systems interventionists and has written dozen of articles and several books, including research-based Reading the Room (Jossey-Bass, 2012), Inside the Family (Jossey-Bass, & Meredith Winter Press, 2003) and My Lover, Myself (Riverhead Books, 1999), producing a rich breadth of work that grounds his communication theories and practices today.