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WOBI ON HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAMS

with Marcus Buckingham

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How to build committed, efficient and productive teams

Keys for developing team strengths

How to communicate and motivate effectively

Evaluating team performance by focusing on each person’s development

How to improve your impact as a team leader

Leaders seeking to reinforce the results of their teams

Talent managers looking to update their knowledge

Those wanting to learn about the latest trends in team management

Managers and executives interested in developing effective leadership

Marcus Buckingham is a global researcher and thought leader focused on unlocking strengths, increasing performance and pioneering the future of how people work.

His hugely influential books – including First, Break All the Rules, Now, Discover Your Strengths and The One Thing You Need to Know – offer important insights into maximising strengths and understanding the crucial differences between leadership and management.

His latest book, Nine Lies about Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World, details how faulty assumptions and wrong thinking affect our productivity in the workplace and uncovers the core truths that help drive change.

SESSION 1 – 2 hours

01 TEAMS: THE FOUNDATIONAL UNIT OF ANY BUSINESS

WHY PEOPLE CARE MORE ABOUT THE TEAM THEY WORK ON THAN THE COMPANY THEY WORK FOR

Revealing the qualities that the best performing teams possess
Understanding the limitations of organizational culture

CREATING THE RIGHT INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM FOR YOUR TEAMS

How excessive planning can undermine team performance
Why winning teams have the best intelligence rather than the best plan
Techniques for letting real-world intelligence flow into teams

WHY TEAMS NEED MEANING NOT GOALS

Why goals can inhibit rather than empower team members
How to ensure that everyone in the company understands what matters most
What it means to cascade meaning to your teams and practical ideas for how to do it

SESSION 2 – 2 hours

02 THE COMPOSITION OF A GREAT TEAM

REVEALING THE SINGLE MOST POWERFUL PREDICTOR OF A TEAM’S PRODUCTIVITY

Why great teams maximize rather than subvert individuality
Identifying, leveraging and building on the strengths that each member brings to the team

FEEDBACK AND LEARNING WITHIN THE TEAM DYNAMIC

Introducing the concept of the feedback fallacy
Why people crave attention rather than feedback – and the implication for team performance
What to do when someone asks you for feedback

MEASURING TEAM PERFORMANCE

Measuring Team Performance
Identifying and overcoming unreliable data in the rating of teams
Why we should look to rate our own experiences rather than other people

SESSION 3 – 2 hours

03 WHY TEAM MOMENTUM MATTERS MORE THAN POTENTIAL

WHY WE NEED TO THINK IN TERMS OF TEAM “MOMENTUM” RATHER THAN “POTENTIAL”

The critical importance of getting clear on who your team members are and where they want to go
How to better understand and respond to the current momentum of your team members

HELPING EACH TEAM MEMBER TO FLOURISH

Rethinking the concept of work-life balance
Creating an environment that helps people find love in what they do
How love-in-work manifests itself on teams

EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP AS A FUNCTION OF TEAM BEHAVIOR

What is leadership? Going beyond a list of qualities and characteristics
Why it is the feelings of followers that reveal the true impact of the leader
Why people follow those who stand in their area of greatest strength

How to build committed, efficient and productive teams

Keys for developing team strengths

How to communicate and motivate effectively

Evaluating team performance by focusing on each person’s development

How to improve your impact as a team leader

Leaders seeking to reinforce the results of their teams

Talent managers looking to update their knowledge

Those wanting to learn about the latest trends in team management

Managers and executives interested in developing effective leadership

Marcus Buckingham is a global researcher and thought leader focused on unlocking strengths, increasing performance and pioneering the future of how people work.

His hugely influential books – including First, Break All the Rules, Now, Discover Your Strengths and The One Thing You Need to Know – offer important insights into maximising strengths and understanding the crucial differences between leadership and management.

His latest book, Nine Lies about Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World, details how faulty assumptions and wrong thinking affect our productivity in the workplace and uncovers the core truths that help drive change.

SESSION 1 – 2 Hours

TEAMS: THE FOUNDATIONAL UNIT OF ANY BUSINESS

WHY PEOPLE CARE MORE ABOUT THE TEAM THEY WORK ON THAN THE COMPANY THEY WORK FOR

Revealing the qualities that the best performing teams possess
Understanding the limitations of organizational culture

CREATING THE RIGHT INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM FOR YOUR TEAMS

How excessive planning can undermine team performance
Why winning teams have the best intelligence rather than the best plan
Techniques for letting real-world intelligence flow into teams

WHY TEAMS NEED MEANING NOT GOALS

Why goals can inhibit rather than empower team members
How to ensure that everyone in the company understands what matters most
What it means to cascade meaning to your teams and practical ideas for how to do it

SESSION 2 – 2 Hours

THE COMPOSITION OF A GREAT TEAM

REVEALING THE SINGLE MOST POWERFUL PREDICTOR OF A TEAM’S PRODUCTIVITY

Why great teams maximize rather than subvert individuality
Identifying, leveraging and building on the strengths that each member brings to the team

FEEDBACK AND LEARNING WITHIN THE TEAM DYNAMIC

Introducing the concept of the feedback fallacy
Why people crave attention rather than feedback – and the implication for team performance
What to do when someone asks you for feedback

MEASURING TEAM PERFORMANCE

Measuring Team Performance
Identifying and overcoming unreliable data in the rating of teams
Why we should look to rate our own experiences rather than other people

SESSION 3 – 2 Hours

WHY TEAM MOMENTUM MATTERS MORE THAN POTENTIAL

WHY WE NEED TO THINK IN TERMS OF TEAM “MOMENTUM” RATHER THAN “POTENTIAL”

The critical importance of getting clear on who your team members are and where they want to go
How to better understand and respond to the current momentum of your team members

HELPING EACH TEAM MEMBER TO FLOURISH