Knowledge Team Leadership

The Art and Science of Being Effective in Any Team      with Christopher Avery, Ph.D.

Course Outline

Assuming Responsibility for Project Team Success

  - Exposing the 5 greatest myths about team effectiveness
  - Accessing the 3 sources of power available to a project leader

  - Applying the Responsibility ProcessTM when things go wrong
  - Demonstrating the Required Reality for project team success
  - Expecting chaos, breakthrough, and improvisation
  - Accelerating productivity on high-performing teams

Decision Making: Yours, Mine and Ours
  - How to get others to show you their most responsible behavior
  - What does consensus really mean and why is it so darn important to teams

  - What synergy meant before Dilbert and how to re-capture that meaning
  - The simple test for individual decision making on high performing project teams

A Proven Method for Orienting and Re-Orienting Project Teams
  - The top 5 things you can do to build any team any time

  - How to build your team without taking time away from work for team-building

Meetings: The Long Lever of the Team
  - The 1 thing that differentiates a team meeting from other types of meetings

  - Why you should never run your own meetings
  - A simple, portable, and complete meeting model and processes that work
  - Adopting the power of “shared space”

Turning Conflict Into Breakthrough
  - Why criticism kills teams and what to do instead

  - Determining if the heat will produce light, and how to fuel it responsibly
  - Providing effective feedback and communicating expectations without criticizing

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