Training Plans
•Topics
–Maximize Team Performance
–Project Management
•Topics
–Maximize Team Performance
•Team Formation
•Keys to Successful Teamwork
•Communications
•Team Leadership
–Project Management
•Topics
–Maximize Team Performance
–Project Management
•How projects get started
•What is necessary to define a project (cost, scope and time)
•How to breakdown a project into smaller more manageable components
•How to assign resources and manage project teams
•How to track a project and handle the changes that occur over the life a project
•How can a company handle multiple projects
•How do you select the best projects to work on
•Team vs. Working Group
–Discussion (5 minutes)
•Are they the same thing?
•IF NOT THEN
–List a few differences between TEAM and WORKING GROUP
•ELSE THEN
–List the common things between TEAM and WORKING GROUP
•Tell us your answer
•Do you think your group a TEAM or WORKING GROUP?
•Working Group
–Relies on individual contributions and produce individual work products
–Uses purpose to delineate individual roles, tasks, and responsibilities (Company Mission = Group Purpose)
–Come together to share information, perspectives, and best practices
–Do not take responsibility for results other than their own
–More comfortable and less risky
–Strong, clearly focused leader
•Teams
–Individual and mutual accountability
–Collective work-products to produce something of incremental performance value and that requires a real work contribution from each team member
–More flexible, higher levels of performance
–More risk
–Shared leadership roles
–Specific team purpose and performance metrics
•A team is a small number of people with complimentary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.
•Small Group (< than 10)
•Complimentary Skills (Technical/Functional, Problem Solving/Decision Making, Interpersonal)
•Common Purpose (Mission, Tone, Aspiration, “Solution Space”, Meaning, Emotional Energy, Identity)
•Performance Goals (Specific, Measurable, Track Progress, Facilitates Communication and Constructive Conflict, Focus, Levels the Field, Allow for Small Wins, and are Compelling)
•Common Approach – How to work together to accomplish their purpose (roles, schedules, decision making process, measurement, defining core team values, norms, rules of behavior, etc.)
•Mutual Accountability – Keeping promises to ourselves and others, commitment, and trust. Accountability provides a litmus test of the quality of a team’s purpose and approach.
