High-performance Teams are your future!  How well people work together will determine how productive your organization will be!  It's time to GET SERIOUS about building high-performance teams!  You can't just "POUF"  teams into existence with a magic wand.  You have to equip people with competencies and processes to see real high performance results.  We can help--through years of experience in WHAT MAKES TEAM EXCEL!

BUILDING RESPONSIBLE, HIGH-PERFORMANCE TEAMS    These sessions can be customized for in-tact teams, or presented to a group of team leaders TAKE MUTUAL RESPONSIBILITY:  BUILD A SUCCESSFUL, HIGH-PERFORMANCE TEAM   PURPOSE This course is designed to help team leaders and team members, department leaders, division leaders, and leaders/members of cross-functional teams to know what steps to take to build a high performance team that is mature and effective.  The course will provide ideas for team development at each critical step of the team’s growth process and will be a valuable “road map” for building a high performance team.    HIGHLIGHTS   ¨      Learn why teams are so critical to organizational success   ¨      Identify the three stages of team development—and the differences between a work group, a team, and a high performing team   ¨      Identify the four essential R’s of team building—the bases that every mature team must cover to grow to high performance maturity   ¨      Laying the groundwork:  Participate in engaging with a team in the visioning process, creating a mission statement in 20 minutes, creating a set of result-oriented, achievable team goals in key results areas, creating a set of ground rules for your team, and creating a sense of identity to provide a solid foundation to build on   ¨      Plan a roadmap for your team’s developmental process over the next six months to a year and ensure buy-in from every member of the team   ¨      Participate in negotiating and clarifying roles within the team, and learn how to get out of the traditional “territorialism” that has to be eliminated   ¨      Create a cross training plan for your team to ensure coverage and flexibility: hold an effective team meeting, create a plan for fun, for bonding, and for building team relationships

TAKE MUTUAL RESPONSIBILITY:  KNOW YOUR TEAM'S WORKING/BEHAVIORAL STYLE     PURPOSE Nothing is more fascinating than watching a team discover behavioral styles!  They see and validate their own style and really start to understand others in a brand new way!  People are talking for months after a team building exercise about behavioral styles, which means that they have internalized the infornation and they are factoring in these important differences as they work together on a daily basis!  If you are looking for a high-impact, fun, memorable team-building exercise--this is the one you should choose!     HIGHLIGHTS   Learn to know team members better by sharing results of the DiSC profile with team DiSC profiles reveal to us NEEDS-DRIVEN behaviors Each team member will complete an online behavioral style profile (DiSC)  ahead of time and bring it with them to  the seminar We will share our “findings” with each other—our classic profile, and our territory on the “people map" DiSC and trust—how our DiSC style impacts trust building: trust building exercise  DiSC and communication—what works for each of us in interactions and communications.  Communication exercise--How to adjust our style to communicate effectively with other style DiSC and change—how we tend to react when asked to make a change DiSC and conflict—our tendencies when we find ourselves in a conflict situation: Conflict role play DiSC and feedback—how we like to receive feedback, praise, and constructive criticism;  Team commitments exercise—what I commit to the team that I will do to enhance the team effort

TAKE MUTUAL RESPONSIBILITY: UNDERSTAND GENERATIONAL DIFFERENCES   PURPOSE   Never before in  history have we had four different generational groups all working in the same workplaces!  It creates conflicts and motivational challenges of enormous proportions!  The best we can do with these very diverse groups is to get as much understanding as possible into the mix, and use the knowledge to help us work together as high performance teams.   HIGHLIGHTS   ¨     Understand  how we’ve been value programmed: Investigating generational differences help us explore values-driven behaviors   ¨  Apply  whole-person model and use it to tell us about where behaviors come from   ¨     Research on four generation groups—Matures, Boomers, Generation X, and Millenials; dates of each group   ¨     Become familiar with themes of matures, boomers, x-er’s, and millenials   ¨     Know why generational differences are important: everyone wants to feel valued and everyone wants to feel understood   ¨     Participate in  self-awareness activities using generational differences:  Participants will share what they relate to and don’t relate to from their closest value group   ¨     The role of workplace expectations and values in overall job satisfaction       We will discuss in breakout groups  what might be some valuable, helpful changes we could make to better accommodate expectations

TAKE MUTUAL RESPONSIBILITY for    EXCEPTIONAL TEAM INNOVATION   PURPOSE   This course is designed to provide electrifying ideas, skills, and awareness for building a highly innovative team or workplace! Participants will complete The Team Dimensions Profile online before the course.   HIGHLIGHTS   ·        Create awareness—through definitions of creativity, innovation, transformation and the critical ingredients of each   ·        Build awareness of what keeps us “stuck” and stagnant: learn the importance of the skill of anticipation by “picking up signals of the future”   ·        Build an understanding of how our brain works—and our own left brain, right brain tendencies and preferences: learn how to shift to creative right brain processing at will as the situation demands   ·        Discover each individual’s best, most natural contribution to the process of innovation using the Team Dimensions Profile.   ·        Identifying the Z process of innovation—and where the hand-offs should come in the creative process   ·        Learn to use a five step thinking process that will help unlock our amazing brainpower   ·        Learn about the importance of the spirit of innovation—tapping our internal passions and using the power of emotions to enhance our creative idea flow   ·        Learn how to create an environment conducive to high level creativity: Gain ideas about how to structure assignments that allow for creativity   ·        Learn to use creative tools—a pictograph, a mind map, zigzagging, and many, many more!

TAKE MUTUAL RESPONSIBILITY:  FOSTER GREAT TEAM COMMUNICATION THROUGH DIALOGUE   PURPOSE   This course is designed to help people become skilled in the art of dialogue—an open exchange of information and emotion that results in true understanding.  Dialogue is essential in building teams and creating a learning organization, as it is the mechanism by which learning happens, and by which “learnings” are shared in an organization.   HIGHLIGHTS   ¨      Gain a basic understanding of a learning organization—what it is, how it works, why it is so essential to our long term success as an organization   ¨      Learn a definition of dialogue and how it differs from discussion, debate, and other forms of exchange   ¨      Practice the critical dimensions of dialogue—inquiry and advocacy   ¨      Learn skills in asking good questions, checking for understanding, summarizing   ¨      Learn skills in asking for feedback   ¨      Learn skills in verbalizing your assumptions and asking others to verbalize their assumptions too   ¨      Learn skills in presenting your own ideas and positions without making others wrong, or setting yourself  up in a debate mode   ¨      Participate in dialogue and evaluate the effectiveness of true dialogue   ¨      Learn how to use dialogue in typical work situations—making decisions, evaluating a project, exploring new options and opportunities etc.

TAKE MUTUAL RESPONSIBILITY: MAKE EFFECTIVE CONSENSUS DECISIONS   PURPOSE   This course is designed to help participants understand the consensus process, when it is appropriate, and how to lead a group of people to effectively and efficiently create a consensus decision. Learn when consensus is appropriate and when it is not.   HIGHLIGHTS   ¨      Learn the alternative styles of making decisions, and what style is best in each situation   ¨      Learn how to select an appropriate decision process   ¨      Identify what consensus is and what it is not   ¨      Identify the benefits of taking the time to create a consensus decision   ¨      How empowering leaders help set up successful consensus decisions   ¨      Learn how to lay the groundwork for a true consensus decision to emerge   ¨      Learn to avoid the traps in consensus—the “easy slide to consensus”   ¨      Learn to use specific tools to move a group toward consensus—nominal group technique, achieve/avoid checklist, multi-vote, impact analysis, and many others   ¨      Participate in case studies and exercises to practice making consensus decisions with a group

TAKEMUTUAL RESPONSIBILITY:ENHANCE MEETING IMPACT   PURPOSE This session is designed to change your paradigms about meetings—what constitutes an effective meeting, who is responsible, how to plan and manage an effective meeting.  We want to help participants learn creative techniques that will maximize meeting time, stay in control during meetings, involve everyone, gain closure, make decisions and get results, and have fun in the process.   HIGHLIGHTS   ¨     Learn how to identify how and why to organize a meeting—and how to create a HIGH-IMPACT meeting purpose   ¨      Learn to differentiate between types of meetings: how informational, decision-making, and creative brainstorming meetings should each be planned and structured differently   ¨      Learn how to improve your ability to plan for effective meetings through agendas and pre-meeting information and assignments   ¨      Learn how to get meetings started right by using warm-ups and ground rules effectively: learn how to create an environment for creativity and “out of the box” thinking   ¨      Learn how to ensure open communication at meetings through use of the five levels of communication, listening, dialogue vs. discussion: learn how to set up and  facilitate a “creative conversation”   ¨      Learn how to apply creative techniques to involve everyone, and ensure true collaboration at meetings   ¨      Learn how to gain closure with each discussion, taking it all the way to decision making and planning   ¨      Learn to equip people to handle key roles in every meeting, facilitator, recorder, process observer   ¨      Learn to use many new tools to make meetings more productive and creative, and handle typical meeting problems effectively

TAKE MUTUAL RESPONSIBILITY:  MANAGE PROJECTS SUCCESSFULLY   PURPOSE   The purpose of this course is to give participants an understanding of the basics of project management, and provide them with the most useable, practical tools available to manage simple individual up to complex, long-term team projects effectively.  Participants should come to the class with a real project in mind that they can work on as they gain new skills.   HIGHLIGHTS   Learn the four phases of project management and the work that needs to be done in each phase Identify a project that you will work on during the class Master the skill of mind mapping and use it throughout the project management process Define your project—completing all the strategic work that needs to be completed Plan your project—completing the tactical plan that every project needs—using a story board process as a springboard to creating a schedule and a budget Learn techniques to control and monitor the “work in progress” Learn techniques of evaluating your project—both as the implementation phase unfolds and at the end of the project Practice applying as many skills and techniques as possible in a real life project