Creating High Performing Teams
Session Description: Teamwork is essential to organizational success, but performance can suffer if teams aren’t aware of how they work together and what behaviors are essential for successful collaboration. Designed for teams, this 2 day program will dig deep into where a team is on the key elements of trust, accountability & ownership. Participants will learn strategies for better communication, goal alignment, conflict resolution & empowerment. The program draws on both DISC Behavioral Styles & Lencioni’s research on team working and will build to create a personalized action plan for the team & its members, that puts them in the driving seat of their own success. Learning Objectives: Increase awareness of the significance of effective collaborative environment and utilizing the authentic strengths of the team members for the success of the team/departmentUnderstanding and appreciating the strengths of the self and othersSeeking to create diversified teams for successMethodology: Using MRG IDI Teams or Gallup Strengthsfinder to create a team’s strength profileDiscuss the highlights of the measurement tool with the team in a lecture style and explore one examplePartner up the participants to study each other’s profile and then share in a group settingHave a group learning and insight discussionCreate a strategy to walk away from the session on how to utilize team’s strengths moving forwardTarget Audience: Leaders at all levelsHigh-potential individual contributorsProject Program Managers
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5 Strategies to Maintain Employee Engagement Through Turbulent Times
Session Description: Now, more than ever, leaders need to develop skills to help themselves and their teams effectively cope with uncertainty. Amidst turbulent times, organizations call upon employees not just to carry on but to remain engaged and highly productive. This practical online workshop will allow you to reflect and compare notes on your biggest challenges as leaders – from maintaining morale and motivation in remote environments to managing impossible workloads. It will give a practical set of tools (particularly relevant in a virtual or hybrid set up) to apply with your direct reports to maintain trust and productivity under constantly changing organizational conditions. It will help you to model and facilitate productive behaviors despite environmental uncertainty and turbulence Learning Objectives: Remain engaged and highly productive during the turbulent timesStrategize for current or anticipated changesIdentify and manage resistanceAcquire a practical set of tools to apply with their direct reports to maintain trust and productivityMethodology: Mini-lecture with relevant examples Interactive exercisesIndividual reflectionSmall group discussionsApplication & action planningTarget Audience: Leaders of organizations, departments, units, volunteer teamsAnyone with direct report(s)
Building Effective Relationships at Work
Session Description: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together” – African proverb It’s rare at work that we can achieve everything we want to on our own. Working with other people and building effective relationships at work is the key to success – ours and our team’s. In this session, we will explore what makes some relationships work better than others, how trust can be built quickly and effectively, strategies for identifying and investing in our most important relationships as well as some tips for what to do when it all goes wrong! Learning Objectives: Identifying the relationships at work that are most important to usLearning techniques to create rapport and build trustExploring how to defuse common tensions and resolve misunderstandings earlyUnderstanding what to do to make authentic investments in the relationships that really countMethodology: Highly interactiveSharing strategies, tips, and toolsFacilitated group discussionsIncludes introduction to DiSC behavioral styles modelAction planning for accountability and sustainable changeTarget Audience: Leaders at all levelsHigh-potential individual contributorsStaff at all levels
