Knowledge Team Leadership : The Art & Science of Being Amazingly Effective in Any Team

Who Should Attend/Prerequisites

If you share responsibility with others to get things done, but they don't report to you, however your performance and reputation depends on results you accomplish together, then this course is for you.

Anyone who wants a hands-on understanding of exactly how high performance team dynamics get "built" (and "unbuilt") should attend this course, especially if you want to know exactly what you can do to build any team any time regardless of your official role, title, or relationhip:

• Department and program executives,
• Project leaders,
• Agile coaches and leads of all types, and,
• Individual contributors...
  

...have all raved about the awareness they've gained, the abilities they've developed, and the results they've produced as a result of attending this course.

Wendy Nagy, Director Program Management

Chris John, CEO, United Benefits Advisors

Knowledge Team Leadership is perfect to attend individually or with your entire team. Because of the practical application or "lab" portion of the class, your team will get more done together during these two days than if they simply worked for two days together—guaranteed. (See the Knowledge Team Leadership web-site for Christopher's rock-solid guarantee).

Check out what Amazon Reviewers say about Christopher's book Teamwork Is An Individual Skill: Getting Things Done When Sharing Responsibility. The 2006 issue of Fortune magazine devoted to teamwork called it the only book on teamwork worth reading.

NOTE this Special Opportunity
for San Antonio, TX March 3-5
& Dallas, TX April 20-22

Master Knowledge Team Leadership in virtual teams with Christopher Avery & Jessica Lipnack. Jessica will attend Knowledge Team Leadership March 3-4 & April 20-21, and Christopher will attend Leading Virtual Teams in the Agile World March 5 and April 23. Register for both courses and spend three days with these two experts.

Class Size Limit: 50 (Minimum 20)

Course Overview

Becoming skilled at doing more with others may be the single most important thing you can do to increase your value. Knowledge Team Leadership fills a unique niche by showing you how to master the "personal agility" for getting work done with others. No other course compares.

By over-whelming demand, Christopher has agreed for the first time to teach this popular intensive in a 2-full-day format (as opposed to 3 days). This is made possible by an evening study session on Day 1 of class.

Every participant who engages fully for the entire two-days will receive a certificate for 20 hours of education. Do not plan to arrive late or fly out early.

Schedule

Day 1: 8:30am to 9pm with adequate breaks. (The evening session is a self-organized group lab that can involve dinner.)

Day 2: 8:30am to 4:30pm. (You should be able to make an 8pm flight out of Denver.)

"If I wanted to significantly improve my team's performance, I'd call Christopher Avery first. His knowledge of the field, extensive research, Responsibility Process, and effective teaching style provide an unparalleled opportunity to create high-performance teams."
- Jim Highsmith, Sr. VP & Director, Agile Software Development, Cutter Consortium, and award-winning author of three best-selling books on Agile development.

Agile development is beginning to enjoy the recognition that it deserves as a productive and quality-enhancing approach to project delivery. But many are finding it challenging to adopt the agile mindset and culture that make these methods outperform others....

How well does your team perform?

Is it optimal?

Would you say your team's performance is great?

Would you like it to be great?

As corporate hierarchies flatten and the old command-and-control structures dissolve into self-directing teams, uncovering what makes teams function and what makes them great is critical.

Despite trendy myths to the contrary, teamwork does not depend on expensive off-sites, group-bonding away from work, or a facilitator's magic art. Teamwork is actually based on individual skills, beliefs, and attitudes that individual members learn to bring to the team. Great teams are built around a series of "conversations" that help to define each individual's role, agreements, and commitments to the team.

And Christopher Avery wrote the book on teamwork as an individual skill. And he'll teach you how to have the conversations at work that build great teams.

Here's a fun video from Christopher. See if this is true for your teams...

Knowledge Team Leadership with Christopher Avery Ph.D. is a powerful 2-day course (note: 2 full days and 1 evening on the first day) that equips you with a set of individual skills and behaviors to create highly responsible and productive relationships. Knowledge Team Leadership gives you practical knowledge about the conditions under which we human beings optimize our work together. You will learn how to create a great team by honing your collaborative leadership skills.

"We are the best we've ever been at being collectively focused and directed without a lot of interpersonal chaos. We'd be out of business if we hadn't done this."
- Craig Wadham, VP Engineering, DTM Corp

Ultimately, collaborative success depends on your ability to compete for your organization's scarcest resource—the attention of project team members. The difference between effective and ineffective knowledge teams isn't in the level of rtechnical skill, supporting technologies, or facilities. It's in the interpersonal dynamics among the team members.

And anyone can learn how to develop those interpersonal dynamics that lead to high performance and results time after time...

"If you really want to be powerful and influential on a team - take this course! I really enjoyed this course. The tools and techniques to use on projects or with teams were great."
- Clare Huspeni, Director, Verizon Wireless

Agenda

When Christopher speaks on team leadership competencies at conferences participants claim his strategies for developing personal and shared responsibility, i.e., ownership, is the most relevant information of the conference.

He's invested his career in understanding the universal principles for leading knowledge teams in order to demystify teamwork and teach you exactly:

• How teamwork and shared ownership develops,
• Why teamwork and shared ownership does and doesn't happen, and
• How anyone can effectively develop and lead any project team any time they choose.

Greg Krisher, Software Engineering Manager, GE Analytical Instruments, Boulder, CO

Rachel Weston, Agile Coach, Rally Software Development

Seminar Outline - New 2-Day format!

• Assuming Responsibility for Team Success
  • Exposing the 5 greatest myths about team effectiveness
  • Accessing the 3 sources of power available to you
  • Applying the Responsibility Process™ 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 Model 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 teambuilding.
• Step 1: Clarifying the Task
  • Focusing on the task as the reason for the team
  • Clarifying the task for your sponsor, yourself, and every member of the team
  • Applying 4 levels of problem-solving maturity to clarifying the task
  • How to use the 2 magic components of task clarity as a natural team builder
• Step 2: Discovering Outcomes
  • Why member motivation is far more critical to project team success than technical skill and expertise
  • Recruiting, selecting, and working with what you are given.
  • Applying the lubricant of Outcome Alignment
  • Discovering what's in it for you to work with this team on this project.
  • How to predict early on the level to which any team will perform, and how to change it if you want to.
  • How to discover and amplify anyone's motivation.
  • The keys to motivating peers who don't report to you
• Step 3: Creating Context
  • How to trust just right
  • Entrusting, making mistakes, correcting, and forgiving: W.L. Gore's Waterline Principle
  • Making agreements and ground rules that stick
  • What to do when people violate agreements and ground rules they helped make.
  • 4 Steps for cleaning up broken agreements, relationships mistakes, and other team oops.
• Step 4: Aspirational Target
  • The single most powerful competency a leader can develop
  • Like moths to a flame: the power of a clear and elevating goal
  • Knowing the goal will come
  • Recipes for Breakthrough
• Step 5: Inventorying Resources and Honoring Differences
  • Supporting new roles that emerge naturally on effective teams
  • Making every team member a go-to person
  • Why effective teams are always "MacGyver" teams
  • Seeing others as levers for your own talents
• 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.
  • Applying tools and principles for virtual team meeting success
  • 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
  • How to turn around difficult players

Seminar Experience

• High-Impact
  Results accrue through your discovering and applying truths that increase your awareness of yourself and others and your ability to take action, not from lectures of academic theories or the latest fads.
• High-Leverage
  Christopher artfully employs discovery-based "accelerated learning" tools (like exercises, debriefs, and discussions) for maximum gain in minimum time so you develop the mind set and confidence to rapidly address real team issues immediately.
• Unique Approach
  For maximum leverage, every tool, skill, and strategy taught builds on a common core philosophy practiced everyday by masters in corporations worldwide. This assures congruency of subject matter, an overlooked key to quality learning experiences.

Participant Materials

Each participant will receive:

• comprehensive student manual that you will want to keep and review for years to come,
• a prioritized list of additional and supportive learning resources,
• one copy of Teamwork Is An Individual Skill: Getting Your Work Done When Sharing Responsibility,
• one copy of The Leader's Guide, and,
• a complimentary subscription to Responsibility eTips.

Register Now: Space is limited...

Still not sure if Knowledge Team Leadership is right for you?

Did you read Christopher's rock solid guarantee?

You can also take advantage of the following complimentary tools available to you

Download a 27-page Special Report:

Team Building Tips of Team Leadership Masters:
5 Steps You Can Master to Routinely Build Any Team Any Time for High Performance & Low Stress at Work

and the 8-page Team Leadership Adventure Starter Kit—both free...

Matt Stonesmith, GE Analytical Instruments

Stacey Hunvald, Agile Facilitator

Cost:

$1,395 per attendee.