About Us
Bi-Lingual Leadership Training For More Than 600 Corporations
TEAM International® is a bi-lingual leadership training organization offering programs in the U.S. and Latin America.
TEAM International® was founded in Mexico in 1983 as Tecnología Administrativa Moderna (TEAM), S.C., and established as TEAM, Inc. in San Antonio in 1985. Since then, more than 10,000 business leaders from the U.S., Mexico, Spain, Portugal and 13 Latin American countries have participated in our training and coaching programs. TEAM International® has assisted more than 600 companies and organizations to improve leadership skills, teamwork, communication, creativity, negotiation and cross-cultural management. Our experienced coaches and facilitators have carried out over 500 programs all over the U.S., Latin America, Australia, and Europe.
Executive Assessment
TEAM International® is also highly skilled and experienced in what we call Assessment for Development™ (AfD) technology, which is the deployment of tools and instruments to measure the impact of executives on the people around them. We start with the dictum of the Center for Creative Leadership®, a pioneer in the field, that an executive who does not know his/her impact is doomed to failure. It is, then, critical for us to understand how we are perceived by others, and why that it so. We start with what is called a “360° instrument” that sounds out the nature of the impact all around the executive: above with supervisors, below with subordinates, and laterally with peers. We use a powerful survey that asks 35 comprehensive questions about a manager’s skills in leadership, communicating, planning, controlling, managing self, and managing relationships. This survey is followed by three self-reporting instruments which get at the reasons behind the impact (i.e., what is there in my styles, preferences, and profile that determine why I impact the ways I do?). In all cases, we use highly rated and robust instruments that have a long history of reliability in drawing out this data. All this information is then reported to the executive as an aid in understanding and making changes in his/her behaviors that will enhance positive impact. Contrary to the practice by some other leadership practitioners, we do not use assessments for selection of candidates by organizations, only for the development of their employees. The information received from the instruments is shared directly only with the participant, not with their companies. Of course, participants are free, and even encouraged, to share their information with anyone they choose, but for us it remains confidential to third parties.
(See the article on our website “Assessment for Development and the New Science of Teamwork,” for updates on our AfD technology.)
A Selection of our Clients
| 7-Eleven de Mexico 3M of Mexico Abbott Laboratories American Express Company Apple Computers AMOCO Corporation ARCO Chemicals ARRIS Mexico AT&T Banamex BASF Corporation (US & Mexico) Banco Galicia (Argentina) Bendix Mexicana The Black & Decker Corp. (US & Latin America) Bristol-Meyers-Squibb (Mexico) Ciba-Geigy (Mexico) Citigroup Clorox (Mexico) Colgate-Palmolive (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Republica Dominicana & US) Corpoven (Venezuela) Dell Computer Corporation Dicipa (Mexico) Du Pont Eli Lilly and Company (US & Central America) Enlace International Exel Logistics Mexico/Lufthansa Exxon Corporation Federal National Mortgage Association Federal Reserve Bank Ford Motor Company (Mexico) Gannett Co, Inc. Gillette (Mexico) Glaxo, Inc. (US & Latin America/Caribbean) The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (US, Chile, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, & Venezuela) |
Grupo ATSA (Mexico) Grupo CYDSA (Mexico) Grupo Gamesa (Mexico) Grupo Incomtel (Mexico) Grupo Lamosa Grupo Primex (Mexico) H.E. Butt Grocery Co. Hitchiner Manufacturing IBM Inter-American Development Bank (BID) INNFA (Ecuador) Kodak Mexicana Kraft General Foods LSG/SkyChefs (Chile, Mexico, Spain, Venezuela) Motorola, Inc. National Bank of Mexico Nationwide Insurance PepsiCo Food Systems Worldwide Pfizer, Inc. The Procter & Gamble Company The Prudential Insurance Co. of America – Health Care Sara Lee Corporation S.C. Johnson & Son (Chile & Mexico) Schering-Plough Corporation Siemens Corporation TUPY de Mexico USAA Unilever Latin America Union Pacific Railroad Valero Valtra Axera (GNC Mexico) Whirlpool (Argentina) |
T. Noel Osborn, Ph.D.
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President and Lead Facilitator
More information on Spanish language programs Contact: noel.osborn[at] |
Noel received his B.A, M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics (Human Resources) from the University of Colorado-Boulder. Twice a Fulbright Professor to Mexico, he was a tenured full professor in the College of Business, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM). His research, principally in human resource economics, multi-national firm decision-making, and more recently, cross-cultural management issues, has been published in both U.S. and Mexican sources. In 1971, Osborn founded the Business and Economics Research Center at the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara. In 1976, he organized the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) program at the UNAM and served as its founding director until 1980. In 1980-81, he was Associate Academic Director of the Instituto de Banca y Finanzas at Banamex. From 1981 to 1989, Noel was Director (Dean) of the Mexico Campus of U.S. International University in San Diego, California (now Alliant University). Dr. Osborn has been an adjunct Faculty Member of the Center for Creative Leadership since 1983. He is a U.S. citizen by birth and a Mexican national by naturalization. He is also a Vietnam veteran and served for 34 years in the U.S. Navy Reserve, with the permanent rank of Lieutenant Commander. A sample of his current writing is available on this website. (See News/Articles tab.) |
