Accelerating Team Productivity

Teams can get bogged down for many reasons. Unclear direction, ineffective leadership, poor meeting management, a lack of decision-making skills, internal conflict, and poor time management are common and can happen to any kind of team.  This workshop gets the team “unstuck.”  Through diagnosis, discussion, and new skill building, teams learn new ways to plan and conduct their activities and reduce the friction that slows down progress.

Potential audience 

An existing team and their leader who want to become much more effective as a team.  Good candidates are: product development teams, marketing teams, design teams, manufacturing teams, lab teams, patient care teams, learning cohorts, start-up firms, development (fund raising) teams, and many others.

Depending on length of workshop, OBJECTIVES may include:

• Analyzing team progress against goals
• Reviewing the team charter and plan
• Evaluating team communication
• Reviewing team meeting behavior
• Learning and using facilitation skills
• Understanding important team roles
• Applying and practicing effective meeting management
• Re-calibrating objectives and targets
• Re-negotiating sponsor expectations and timelines

Depending on length of workshop, TOPICS may include:

Team Guideposts

• Creating and/or understanding a team Charter 
• Developing or re-committing to a team Mission

Team Communication

• Understanding stages of team development
• Understanding team styles (using the Team Dimensions® assessment)
• Managing conflicts and differences
• Making sound decisions
• Building consensus

Team Meetings

• Setting goals and objectives
• Creating and managing an agenda
• Controlling the discussion
• Assigning and tracking actions

Sponsor Expectations

• Meeting with the sponsor
• Negotiating and re-calibrating expectations
• Setting priorities
• Confirming plans