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Task 1: Building a high performance team and team environment.
Purpose: Getting the right mix of people with complementary business and technical skills will lead to the most effective and productive team. Focus on finding people who are most likely to provide a unbiased and objective viewpoints. Keep in mind an Einstein quote; “You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it”. |
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Assemble a High Performance Team: |
Get the right mix of people for team effectiveness. |
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Establish a High Performance Environment: |
Get team members to work in their “zone”. |
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Impacts of Beliefs on Team Thinking: |
Understand how beliefs influence team thinking. |
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Task 2: Maintaining a high performance team.
Purpose: Amazing things happen in groups when everyone has balanced work, common goals and works well together. Working collaboratively in high performance teams brings forth a synergy that raises everyone’s level of thinking. The result is often an extraordinarily creative approach to difficult problems or projects. |
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Run a High Performance Team: |
A good business team gets results far beyond individuals. |
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Drivers of Team & Organizational Success: |
Identify patterns of successful performance |
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Collaborative Team Effectiveness: |
Find out how your team is doing. |
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Team Goal Setting: |
Develop a collective sense of what is important. |
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Team Productivity Tips Questions: |
Ask the right questions for better performance. |
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Task 3: Holding effective team meetings, the cornerstone of team success.
Purpose: Eliminating “bad meetings” is important, but there are now even more compelling imperatives for improving meetings. Says Peter Lencioni author of the popular book Death by Meeting, “As more of what people do takes place in teams, meetings become the setting in which the really important work gets done. Team and organizational success is becoming more dependent on the quality of its meetings.” |
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Is a Meeting Really Needed: |
Avoid wasted time in meetings by canceling unnecessary ones. |
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Meeting Purpose & Planning: |
Help plan your meeting. |
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Meeting Participants: |
A meeting critical success factor is getting the right people to attend |
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Meeting Facilitator: |
Successful teams need successful meetings need effective facilitators. |
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Dialogue Process: |
Arrive at a shared understanding that no one person could achieve. |
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Devil’s Advocate: |
Challenge team thinking to ensure that all viewpoints are looked at. |
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Nominal Group Technique (NTG): |
Give all meeting participants an equal opportunity. |
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Role Playing: |
Imagine how other would resolve the problem or situation. |
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Consensus: |
Develop team decision with a great deal of commitment. |