Team Building and Leadership: Create-Learning » Team Building Agenda http://create-learning.com/blog Organizational Development - Team Building - Leadership Training - Executive Coaching - Facilitation Fri, 18 May 2012 15:54:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Making Teams and Leaders Better. Notes from High Performance TeamBuilding Classes http://create-learning.com/blog/buffalo-ny/making-teams-and-leaders-better-notes-from-high-performance-teambuilding-classes http://create-learning.com/blog/buffalo-ny/making-teams-and-leaders-better-notes-from-high-performance-teambuilding-classes#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 15:56:33 +0000 mike http://create-learning.com/blog/buffalo-ny/making-teams-and-leaders-better-notes-from-high-performance-teambuilding-classes Currently I’m Teaching a High Performance Team Building Professional Development Program for the University at Buffalo, NY.

Below are some of the flip chart notes, from the section on the Team Performance Model.

Overview of this section – 7 Steps to Team Performance

  • Explore the creation and sustainment of High Performance teams.
  • Co-Create Solution Focused questions and methods for advancement of each step.
  • Leave with a working model and application to your work and team lives.

Lessons Learned from this section – 7 Steps to Team Performance

  • Knowledge of how to put this model into existing teams to improve effectiveness of people on the team.
  • A series of question and tactics that can be used to move a stuck-team into motion and success.
  • Examples and ways to implement this system into your organization, teams and individual contributors.

 

To learn more about this program and others like it…Click Here

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The ASQ Statistics Division, some sharing on the ASQ Team Excellence Awards from the Quality Education Division, and a closing talk by Richard Kyte and Thomas Thibodeau of Viterbro Universities Servant Leadership Masters Program, made the conference amazing.

Here are some photos from the Conference.

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The Demystification of Quality Leadership

In this highly interactive workshop we will demystify what is takes to be a Quality-Leader. You will leave with a clear and distinct understanding of what Quality-Leadership within your work and life is, and how to maximize the talent you already have to continually improve the quality of your organization, team and people.

Plus these Leadership skills;

  • Create an Organization and Team that attracts trust and talent.
  • Use the ‘Cascade-of-Leadership’ to increase the quality and throughput of your organizations work.
  • Steps to develop high performance quality teams.
  • Steps to lead high performance quality teams.
  • A formula that can be used to match the right person to the right work. Ensuring the task is completed on time and within quality standards.
  • Knowing your Quality-Leadership Strengths.
  • How to determine strengths and constraints in other leaders and what to do about it.
  • Improve the problem solving and decision making of yourself and others

If you are interested in learning more and offering this workshop to your team and leadership CONTACT MIKE

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CONTACT Create-Learning to make this happen for your team.

 

How to Make Team Decisions

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Situation

Working with a team of 12 people. They were struggling to make decisions as a team. The team manager Kim, had her goals, roles and vision clearly articulated, and the team members all agreed that the goals and roles were understood and agreeable.

The problem was deciding how, what and when to implement the detailed parts of the work. The lag was causing increases in the amount of time and cost to the company. Plus placing stress on Kim, because her boss the CEO of the company was putting pressure on her to “fix this”.

Intervention

In a 3 hour team building meeting, where the team came with a decision to be made. The above image was shared. Along with more prescriptive content on Selecting a Decision-Making Approach. Kim, with the team created “Decision Making Chart” defining which decisions she would make herself (Authoritarian to Consultative) which needed to be delegated to specific team members, and which decisions will be made by the group (Consensus to 2/3 majority vote).

A quick procedure and shared checklist of “Selecting a Decision-Making Approach”  was created, designed and agreed upon by the entire team, which can be used with the team and records each team members preferences and accountability and authority in each decision to be made.

Resolution

Kim reported that decisions were being made “faster and with greater buy-in from the team” and that her boss shared with her a compliment he received from another CEO of a key client of theirs. The compliment was “Your team was able to turn around our request in record time. We will be doing more business with you.”

Follow up with the team showed the following results;

  • Increased trust of other team-members due to a shared understanding of how decisions are made and who is accountable and has the authority to act upon those decisions.
  • Decreased amount of time make a decision. What used to take week, and even then people still did not agree on the decision. Now takes hours or minutes, and everyone leaves in agreement of the decision made.
  • Kim feels less stress and anger towards the team. She reported finding greater areas of cooperation and solutions.
  • The team has had their work and therefore responsibility increased, and they are thriving.

CONTACT Create-Learning to make this happen for your team.

Making decisions as a team requires a shared understanding and procedure for accomplishment. The confusion and strife that occurs because the team cannot make a decision will ruin any progress made on the work. In order for decisions to be made quickly, and the work to be completed on-time, on-budget, within quality, while the team still gets along, a known and agreed upon procedure must be used.

 

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]]> http://create-learning.com/blog/team-building/decision-making-procedure-fixed-team-problems/feed 0 The Demystification of Quality-Leadership. Workshop http://create-learning.com/blog/manager-training/the-demystification-of-quality-leadership-workshop http://create-learning.com/blog/manager-training/the-demystification-of-quality-leadership-workshop#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:16:32 +0000 mike http://create-learning.com/blog/manager-training/the-demystification-of-quality-leadership-workshop I am leading this workshop in La Crosse Wisconsin on April 19. If you are in the area it would be great to meet you and learn with you. To register and learn more CLICK HERE.

If you can’t make it, and interested in learning more and offering this workshop to your team and leadership CONTACT MIKE

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An interactive examination of what Quality-Leadership is and how you can leverage existing knowledge, competencies, Quality Practices, tools and initiatives to improve your organization, team and self.

Resulting in enhanced accomplishment of goals on-time within quality specifications and within budget, capitalizing upon the innovation and motivation of the people who work along with you to complete the work.

Overview:Human Development and Leadership Education Share. Michael Cardus

Great leadership is one of the most valued of all human activities. Within every part of our lives from work to family to friends to be known as a good leader is a great accolade. It signifies the talent of bringing people together and getting them to effectively work towards a common goal, to co-operate with each other, to rely upon each other, to trust each other. It evokes the warm and gratifying prospect of being part of a successful team or organization. Everyone LOVES being on a Winning Quality team, they LOVE the leader who led them to winning even more!

But good leadership within quality teams is also seen as one of the most mysterious things to achieve.

In this highly interactive workshop we will demystify what is takes to be a Quality-Leader. You will leave with a clear and distinct understanding of what Quality-Leadership within your work and life is, and how to maximize the talent you already have to continually improve the quality of your organization, team and people.

Plus these Leadership skills;

  • Create an Organization and Team that attracts trust and talent.
  • Use the ‘Cascade-of-Leadership’ to increase the quality and throughput of your organizations work.
  • Steps to develop high performance quality teams.
  • Steps to lead high performance quality teams.
  • A formula that can be used to match the right person to the right work. Ensuring the task is completed on time and within quality standards.
  • Knowing your Quality-Leadership Strengths.
  • How to determine strengths and constraints in other leaders and what to do about it.
  • Improve the problem solving and decision making of yourself and others

 

If you are in Wisconsin area it would be great to meet you and learn with you. To register and learn more CLICK HERE

If you can’t make it, and interested in learning more and offering this workshop to your team and leadership CONTACT MIKE

 

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All of us and our companies are in constant change, and we know this. Different people need different levels of information and motivation for the change to happen. As a manager YOU NEED the wisdom and ability to manage the process and add value to peoples decisions and work.

Contact Mike to make your Organization, Team and Leaders – plan for change better.

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Planning a Change

When planning for a change you need reflective and purposeful steps. This change may be personal and or professional.

By setting a model for you to place objective thoughts into. As a leader you will be better equipped to determine areas of success and which areas to proceed into next with planning and decisions.

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  • I don’t know the original source of this model.

 

Below are questions (by no means comprehensive) that will serve you in thinking through, planning, and making successful action steps for a change.

Planning a Change Question Sheet

Vision

  • What is the purpose?
  • Who will it affect? How?
  • Why is it important to your team? The organization/business/community?
  • What made you decide that this is important?
  • Did you ask your team for input? If so how and what was their input? If not, why not?
  • How will this change affect the staff? Those you serve (clients, customers, vendors, suppliers, supervisor(s), etc…)? You as a leader?
  • Describe the ideal state…Describe the current state…How will you achieve the ideal state?

Skills

  • In what ways might the staff and your existing skill set be useful for the change?
  • What new skills will be needed?
  • How will you accomplish training these new skills?
  • Explain, in detail the necessary skill set for completion of change (if multiple people have/need multiple skills, list the key responsibilities of the change and the necessary skill sets for success)
  • What skills will you as leader(s) need for implementation of the vision?
  • How can the Leadership team partner with you to enable completion?

Incentives

 Explain your plan to move your team and yourself towards completion of this change

  • Why should we work towards this change?
  • How is this change relevant? Now? In the future?
  • Identify the resistors to the change.
  • Identify the champions of the change. 
  • What will keep you, as the leader motivated?
  • How will you continue to keep the team focused?
  • How will you measure success and failure?
  • What steps will you take to reward success and re-direct unmotivated team members?

Resources

Explain what you have and what you need

  • What kind of budget will be available?
  • How much time is needed?
  • Explain how this change will be delegated to staff members.
  • What will be the steps for follow-up and accountability?
  • What resource do you currently have available (list everything from paperwork to people to machines to policies – the more explicit you are in what you have the better your completion will be)
  • What resources will you need (list everything from paperwork to people to machines to policies – the more explicit you are in what you need the better your completion will be)
  • In what ways may you secure these needs?

Action Plan

Explain in detail what you are going to do and how it will get done

  • Re-visit your Vision – and break the change into steps.
  • What are the steps for completion?
  • Goal (Quality, Quantity, Time Frame, Resources) – What is the 1st step for completion?
  • Strategy – In what ways might you implement a strategy for completion of the 1st step?
  • Objective – How will you know that you have completed the 1st step?
  • Responsibility – Who’s going to accomplish the objective?
  • Timeline – When is the implementer going to accomplish that objective?
  • Feedback and Evaluation – Who and how is the implementer going to know if they accomplished good or bad work on their objective?

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Final Thoughts:

  • How do you plan for a change?
  • What existing processes do you / team / organization have in place for reflective thought?
  • Would this system work for plans outside of change? what would be different?
  • Describe how this applies to your current practice / life?

 

Having the Model is Easy, Making Change Happen is NOT…

I have successfully led change and solution focused efforts for organizations, teams and managers of all sizes and structures. To make change happen CLICK THE BOX below, and be the reason that change is successful and people love the work they do.Team Building Leadership Innovation expert Michael Cardus

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Working + Managing Across Generations:

From Traditionalist to Generation Y & Beyond…An Interactive Workshop

“I am finding it challenging aligning and getting the best out of my staff. My senior staff complains about these young kids not wanting to do anything, and the younger staff complains about how none on the senior staff want to hear their ideas.” 

Sound familiar? You are not alone, this is a direct quote from a CEO.
This workshop has been designed to STOP the nonsense and get people working.

Outcomes:

This session engages participants to:

  • Enhance workplace productivity
  • Develop Managerial Action plans to increase the Trust, Team-Work, Effectiveness and Productivity of Multi-Generational Work Teams
  • Learn to recognize patterns that influence workplace attitudes and expectations
  • Gain insight to understand and resolve generational misunderstandings in the workplace and avoid unnecessary conflict
  • Explore generational diversity in the workplace today
  • Identify and exchange perspectives and expectations informed by their generational identities
  • To read more click here
 

Can be facilitated Anywhere;

  • Face to Face with an audience of 5 – 5000
  • Through a Webinar Format
  • 1 on 1 in a Managerial-Coaching Process
  • On Your Own – I send you the materials, power-point and Do-It-Yourself Activity + Facilitation Guide
  • Contact Mike to discuss your team and options. 1-716-629-3678

CONTACT…

To have your team learn and apply the necessary skills and talents to

Work and Manage Across Generations: From Traditionalist to Generation Y and Beyond…

My job is to support you.
Please email me ( mike@create-learning.com ) share your ideas, questions and feedback.

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