Cutter Consortium :: Knowledge Team Leadership: The Art and Science of Being Powerful in Any Team

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Knowledge Team Leadership: The Art and Science of Being Effective in Any Team

"That was terrific! My commitment to your approach is very strong. More importantly, my leadership is enthused."

- Lynne Ellyn, SVP & CIO, DTE Energy Corporation

"My deepest thanks. It was right on target and met all of my expectations. Our energy and enthusiasm has been great. You rock!"

- Dale Legband, Director Software Engineering, KLA-Tencor Corporation

"If you really want to be powerful and influential on a team - take this course! I really enjoyed this course. The tools and techniques to use on projects or with teams were great."

- Clare Huspeni, Director, Verizon Wireless

Length of workshop: 3 days

General Overview:

Successful teams of all kinds must demonstrate reliable execution, a shared focus, clear communication, and trust and commitment. This seminar will arm your team members with the interpersonal skills necessary to get things done when responsibility for results is shared between smart and talented people who don't control each other. You'll discover how to align faster, trust just right, disagree productively, and make better group decisions rapidly.

Based on years of research and application, the Knowledge Team Leadership seminar invites your organization to examine, test, and practice a comprehensive, natural, and integrated set of communication tools and approaches for building responsible and productive team relationships.

Your organization demands greater productivity. Your project teams deserve more efficient use of their skills and resources. The Knowledge Team Leadership seminar can deliver the goods for both of you. Attendees of this seminar will learn how to apply the Responsibility Process Model™ on their projects, leverage themselves and other team members to get as much out of projects as they put in, orient and re-orient project teams, apply the four levels of problem-solving maturity to clarifying the task, inventory resources and honor differences, adopt the power of "shared space", and much more.

Leader:

Christopher Avery wrote the book on teamwork as an individual skill. Thousands of technical leaders and independent thinkers have acquired the integrative mindset and skills for collaborating under competitive conditions because of Christopher's painstaking research and training. Your leaders and team members must know how to predictably execute on a shared focus with responsible communication, exceptional trust, and clear commitment. This seminar can show you how. Discover how to lead collaboratively, align faster, motivate peers, trust just right, disagree productively, and make better individual and group

Workshop Goals:

With this material you can develop a leader, a team, or an enterprise. Learn the powerful Responsibility Method(TM) for getting things done with others over whom you have no control. Examine and adopt the mindset of a collaborative leader. Practice and apply the interpersonal and integrative skill sets of a team leader and member.

Intended Audience:

Valuable for leaders and knowledge workers. Attend with or without your team. With your team you will advance and accelerate your progress together so the time will be highly leveraged and no days will be lost. We guarantee it or your money back.

Prerequisites

Attendees should have experience trying to get things done in fast-paced team-based environments where they must depend on others for their own success.

Outline:

Assuming Responsibility for Project Team Success
- Exposing the 5 greatest myths about team effectiveness
- Accessing the 3 sources of power available to team members or leader
- Applying the Responsibility Process Model™ when things go wrong
- Demonstrating the Required Reality for project team success
- Expecting chaos, breakthrough, and improvisation
- Accelerating productivity on high-performing teams

Decision Making and Action
- How to get others to show you their most responsible behavior
- What does consensus really mean and why is it so important to teams
- How to leverage yourself and others on teams to get as much out as you put in
- The simple test for individual decision making on high performing project teams
Proven Model for Orienting and Re-Orienting Project Teams
- The top 5 things you can do to build any team any time
- How to build your team without taking time away from work for teambuilding

Step 1: Clarifying the Task
- Focusing on the task as the reason for the team
- Clarifying the task for your sponsor, yourself, and every member of the team
- Applying 4 levels of problem-solving maturity to clarifying the task
- How to use the 2 magic components of task clarity as a natural team builder

Step 2: Discovering Outcomes
- Why member motivation is far more critical to project success than technical skill and expertise
- Recruiting, selecting, and working with what you are given
- Applying the glue of Outcome Alignment
- Discovering what's in it for you to work with this team on this project
- How to predict early on the level to which any team will perform, and how to change it if you want to
- How to discover and amplify anyone's motivation
- The keys to motivating peers who don't report to you

Step 3: Creating Context
- How to trust just right
- Entrusting, making mistakes, correcting, and forgiving: W.L. Gore's Waterline Principle
- Making agreements and ground rules that stick
- What to do when people violate agreements and ground rules they helped make
- 4 steps for cleaning up broken agreements, relationship mistakes, and other team oops

Step 4: Aspirational Target
- The single most powerful competency a leader can develop
- Like moths to a flame: the power of a clear and elevating goal
- Knowing the goal will come
- Recipes for Breakthrough

Step 5: Inventorying Resources and Honoring Differences
- Supporting new roles that emerge naturally on effective teams
- Making every team member a go-to person
- Why effective teams are always "MacGyver" teams
- Seeing others as levers for your own talents

Meetings: The Long Lever of the Team
- The one thing that differentiates a team meeting from other types of meetings
- Why you should never run your own meetings
- A simple, portable, and complete meeting model and processes that work
- Applying tools and principles for virtual team meeting success
- Adopting the power of "shared space"

Turning Conflict into Breakthrough
- Why criticism kills teams and what to do instead
- Determining if the heat will produce light, and how to fuel it responsibly
- Providing effective feedback and communicating expectations without criticizing
- How to turn around difficult players

Knowledge Team Leadership: The Art and Science of Being Powerful in Any Team

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