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Effective Team Development
The Systems Thinking Approach™

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This Booklet Includes:
- Workshop Purposes
- Workshop Benefits
- Workshop Agenda
- Workshop Participant Notebook Table of Contents
- Testimonials
- Related Products
- Workshop Policy (registration and cancellation)
- Workshop Booking Information

Workshop Purposes:

Effective Team Development

Overall: To improve organization performance and results
  1. To undergo general periodic check ups on health, satisfaction, and effectiveness of your team
  2. To look at an image of how an effective team generally functions
  3. To diagnose how your are presently functioning as a team; your strengths, weaknesses, barriers, and current practices
  4. To plan corrective actions to solve problems you identified and have energy to resolve
  5. To integrate and improve our economic objectives
  6. To integrate and improve our human objectives
  7. To increase productivity through concerned/committed team efforts
  8. To identify and solve high priority organizational and team problems and opportunities
  9. To improve peer-subordinate-supervisor relationships and more effective/efficient communications; less time and effort needed to expand on interpersonal grapevine issues
  10. To increase participative involvement and consulting for decision-making; freedom of action
  11. To encourage more open and free flowing communications
  12. To increase interpersonal, individual and group membership skills
  13. To continue to create and improve our work environment, which will be more conducive to a healthy organization and, in a practical way, increased individual and group motivation
  14. To eliminate or reduce substantially any inter-group conflicts identified
  15. To clarify mission, vision, values, objectives, goals
  16. To improve customer service, responsiveness, quality of services
  17. To more effectively utilize and develop team members

Workshop Benefits:

Effective Team Development

As a result of this workshop, you will be able to:

Understand the Systems Thinking Approach™ to effective team development

Know a variety of system's designs to accomplish effective team development, resulting in a high performance team

Understand and have your skills increased in helping teams become more effective and satisfied

Work with a wide range of teams to assist improving their effectiveness and satisfaction, including executive teams, project teams, and department teams

Successfully resolve normal conflict issues within teams

Have the skills to take teams through the Rollercoaster of Change™ to high performance

Assist teams with short-term effectiveness and longer-term strategic issues successfully

Have the skills to assist team members in enhancing their interpersonal and team skills, understanding and performance

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One-Day Workshop Agenda:*

Effective Team Development

Topics
1. Join Up
Welcome
Logistics; Purposes; Agenda
Introductions, Wants (quickly)
Norms, To Do List
2. Educational Component(s)
Break
3. Future Vision: Mission, Values, Goals, etc.
Break
4. Feedback of Data (Today’s performance—Strengths, Weaknesses)
Overview, model
Clarity, understanding of data first
Discussion (agree, disagree)
Prioritize the important issues to problem solve
Lunch
5. Action Planning, Problem Solving the Data
As many of the important issues as possible
Other issues on the To Do List as to how
Break
6. Summary, Closure
Next steps, To Do List, communications
Future follow-up meetings planned
Process the meeting
End Day
* We have a variety of ways to do team building in small (from 3-4 hour time blocks) to
larger (2½ days) increments. Please contact us for more information.

Two and Half-Days Workshop Agenda:

Effective Team Development

Topics
5:00 pm Arrival
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm 1. Introductions, norms
2. Objectives
3. Ice Breaker
4. Stage Setting (Context)
5. Communications Styles
6. Process Day

Day 1 1. Mission Review and Data Feedback
    Understand only
    Discuss, agree
    Action
2. Current State
    Data Feedback
    Understand only
    Discuss, agree
    Prioritize issues to cover
3. Process Day
4. Dinner

Day 2 1 Review questions from Day 1
2. Problem solving the highest priority issues
    Task
    Interpersonal process
    Review To Do List
3. Sum up, follow up, next steps, closure

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Workshop Participant Notebook

Collaborating Across Functions
Table of Contents

Topic
Phase I—Data Gathering and Data Analysis/Synthesis
Phase II—Offsite Meeting to:
Define Future Vision
Define Key Success Measures
Develop Action Plan
Phase III—Implementation of Action Plan
Phase IV—Monitoring and Follow Up

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Workshop Participant Testimonials

Effective Team Development

I feel much more confident in my team building facilitation as a result of this.

My conflict resolution skills are now vastly improved as I have a framework within which to do this.

The Rollercoaster of Change was wonderful and will be so useful in every team building I do.

The different team development designs that were shared give me a great toolbox for my work.

The Systems Thinking Approach™ to team development is unique, yet simple and comprehensive in nature–very powerful!

The models and visuals in this workshop make it easy and simple to remember what I am doing in team development and where I am going.

The instructors were terrific–extremely knowledgeable, skilled and full of stories to help me grasp the concepts easily.

The importance of feedback in team effectiveness is so clear now–along with some simple tools to use to enhance it in a group.

I have a union-management negotiations coming up. I can actually use this in there as a neutral third party. Thanks!

Thanks for the new change tools. It gave me ways to shorten the resistance to change in an upcoming project.

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Workshop Policy (registration and cancellation)

 

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