Purpose: To provide the knowledge, structure, tools and processes necessary to forge high performance leadership teams and build the collaborative skills necessary and sufficient for sustainability.
Who wouldn't want to be part of a team that is skilled, clear and agreed on direction, supportive, interdependent, high spirited, and mutually accountable for results? Most of us would call this a "dream team". But this doesn't happen by magic. It's not a Disney World - Pixie Dust phenomena. It takes commitment, persistence, discipline, trust and sometimes, hard work. To achieve and sustain that state of performance requires the same ongoing effort given to any continuous improvement process. It is not a "one-shot and we're good to go" occurrence. Let's be honest, it takes more than a two day team building. But, with the right framework, that's a good start.
Strategic Team Alignment is simply about two things: proper structural framework and genuine personal commitment. Each is necessary but one without the other is insufficient. The structural framework involves getting to clarity and agreement on direction, roles, and execution. Personal commitment involves getting to clarity and agreement on candor, honesty, trust, expectations and a climate of high challenge/high support. Together these components are the equivalent of not only "getting in the boat" but "pulling on the oars".
Our approach provides the essential framing, structure, tools, and processes necessary for realizing the high performance potential in leadership and management teams. Together, participants learn and implement proven techniques for accomplishing their tasks, working together synergistically, and managing their own team dynamics.
Typical Outcomes Include:
- Understanding of and ability to manage the high performance team process
- Increased focus and interdependence for results
- Powerful 360 feedback on team/leadership strengths and areas needing attention
- Increased trust, openness, and mutual support
- Clarity and alignment on purpose, values, vision, goals, priorities, and expectations
- Clarity, understanding and agreement on roles and responsibilities
- Uncommonly high levels of communication
- Increased skill in collaboration, feedback, management of differences, and managing performance
- Improved problem solving and decision making
- Increased cross-functional performance and reduction of "silos"
- Mutual accountability
Key Topics:
- Current state of team performance - how we currently function
- Team skills competency - an inventory
- Direction - clarity and agreement
- Roles, responsibilities and expectations - what are they
- Processes/Execution - how we'll get the job done
- Relationships - how we'll work together
- Strategy for continued development - key to sustainability
Program Length: 2.5 days + four quarterly follow-ups
Audience: Intact management/leadership teams
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