CREATING A COLLABORATIVE WORKING ENVIRONMENT
A TEAM WORKSHOP
“THE PERFORMANCE ENHANCER”
Over the last few years there has been a movement to build organizational culture that is grounded in collaboration. This workshop focuses on helping Teams of people define their current collaborative level and provides a clear vision toward enhancing the group’s collaborative potential.
First, let’s define some key words and concepts:
Collaboration -Working together to do a task and to achieve shared goals, by sharing knowledge, learning, and building consensus.
Consensus Decision Making – A group decision process that seeks the consent of all participants. 1st, it is agreement – 2nd, it is group solidarity of belief or sentiment, for both the decision and the process.
While I have always believed in the cooperative concept, the world seemed to be obsessed with the concept of driving competition. It was not till about 2 weeks ago that I finally understood why this happened. The Baby Boomers have been in a competitive battle their entire lifetimes – we were this large group of individuals that changed everything before us, and we had to compete against ourselves for everything. The way you could tell if you were winning was by comparing yourself or your organization to the competition. Well, it did drive the way the world grew, but as you look to the Millennium generation and the impact of the new online social systems, everything they do is about sharing. Their lives are not anything like the Boomers. “We Competed, They Share”
TOPICS TO BE EXPLORED
1. Defining Your Culture
Team members will be asked to take the “TEAMS THAT WORK” survey developed by the Effectiveness Institute prior to the seminar. “The Teams That Work” Assessment is a tool for teams to use to assess the current level of team performance. The result of this 30 question assessment will report the presence of six characteristics identifies as essential to high performance teams.
The Assessment is purposefully designed to stimulate discussion to positively impact the future success of the team.
2. Defining Great Management and Leadership
How do you define great management and leadership? What do great managers and leaders do?
Articles for reading:
The Concept of Organizational Change
The Architecture of Managing People
The 3 Types of Functional Management
The 4 Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive
What Successful Management Looks Like?
3. The Power of vision and clear expectations
With out a clear vision it is almost impossible to define clear expectations, for a group or individual.
Articles for reading:
Building a Strategic Plan in Today’s World [What Drives Vision ]
Thoughts About Communications
4. Transactional Analysis and Behavioral Alignment
The basic tool for this seminar exercise is called the “Fish”, which really is just a process of engagement about thinking through the core “Must Go Right Interactions/Transactions” that are critical to the organizations productivity. This facilitated team discussion establishes clear and agreed-upon behaviors ,and ensures the entire team owns these expectations.
5. Closing and wrap-up
Each participant will then define 5-6 behaviors that they believe will have the biggest positive impact on their Teams Collaboration –They will also create a dash board of how they will measure those results.
Articles for reading:
Key note speech [Transactional Analysis and Behavioral Alignment system]