This document outlines Gary Berthelson's approach to team building, which involves establishing clear goals and roles, empowering team members, building relationships through communication, being flexible, optimizing performance, and rewarding results. It also provides details on Gary's skill set, personality profile, market success, career history across various disciplines, and interest in contributing to a company's growth through team building and disciplines enjoyed over his career.

1. Gary Berthelson’s
“Team Building for Success”
A Personal History

2. Team Building Approach
• Establishing a purpose
o Linkage to Vision Statement, Mission Statement or Strategic Plan
o Obtain cross functional commitment
• Empowering members
o Provide clarity and structure to the goals to be met
o Establish individual roles and responsibilities
o Manage team members participation
• Building on relationships and communication
o Always communicate to the full team
o Establish recurring – fixed meetings
o Address progress and ideas as well as issues
o Pay special attention to ideas that are innovative

3. Team Building Approach
• Being flexible
o Display open mindedness in meetings
o Draw on each member for ideas and support
o Change direction when necessitated by better ideas or facts
o Trust each members participation, output and in team success
• Optimizing performance
o Focus on deadlines
o Measure progress
o Measure results
o Create an atmosphere of shared accountability
• Rewarding good results
o Praise for the team & individual key contributors

4. Skill Set Contribution
• Team building & facilitating
• Strategic planning
• Strategic partnership building
• Vertical and segment marketing
• Expanding core competencies
• New product definition
• New product development (NPD)
• Product & Program Management
• P&L management
• Customer retention
• Company turn-around expertise

5. Personality Profile
• Entrepreneurial
o Always looking for new and unique opportunities for
success
• Creative
o Idea engine and provider of “food for thought”
• “Type A” drive
o Contagious will to achieve success
• Responsible
o Accepts responsibility and communicates expectations
• Accountable
o Tracks, measures and reports results
• Pragmatic
o Customer ∙ Company ∙ Team Members ∙ Self

6. Market Success
• Aerospace
• Defense
• Commercial
• Industrial
• Telecommunications
• Manufacturing Services

7. Career History by Discipline
• Company Ownership & General Management
o President - Crossed T Consulting
o Owner/founder - CSI Services Inc.
o Vice President - Peripheral Equipment Corporation
• Program Management
o Director, Program Office - Meggitt Safety Systems Inc.
• Business Development
o Director Business Development - Plessey Corning Optronics
• Product Management
o Director Product Management - Dataproducts
• Marketing
o Marketing Account Manager -Titan Ind. Severe Environment
Systems Company (SESCO)
o Operations
o Manager Production Control - Litton GCSD

8. Dear Employer/Recruiter,
Over my career I have had great success and
owe that success in part to my team building
skills. I now want to focus my efforts in
contributing to a company’s growth and in
disciplines that I have enjoyed the most over
my career. It will be there that the depth of my
experience, unique mixture of disciplines,
technologies, companies, markets served and
my team building capabilities will be of great
and lasting value!
Sincerely yours,
Gary Berthelson