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 and your performance and reputation depends on what you do together, then this course is for you.

Anyone who wants to understanding 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 you official role on a team, collaboration, or partnership.

Check out what Amazon Reviewers say about Christopher's book Teamwork Is An Individual Skill: Getting Things Done When Sharing Responsibility

Class Size Limit: 50 (Minimum 20)

COURSE CALENDAR

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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 providing the "Agile lube" for getting work done with others. No other course compares.

"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 Software Development is beginning to enjoy the recognition that it deserves as a productive and quality-enhancing approach to project delivery. Those that understand agility best know that it is the cultural values and social arrangements that make these methods outperform. How well does your team perform? Is it optimal? Would you say that your team's performance is great? Do you want it to be?

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 a question of growing importance.

Teamwork does not depend on group-bonding 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 table. Great teams are built around a series of "conversations" that help to define each individual's role, agreements, and commitments to the team.

Knowledge Team Leadership with Christopher Avery Ph.D. is a powerful 3 day course 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 optimizing your collaboration 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

CEOs and enterprise managers told us in recent interviews the competency they most desire in their employees is not innovativeness, loyalty (surprisingly), or hard work, but ownership. This seminar develops that competency for professionals.

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 skill levels, supporting technologies, or facilities. It's in the interpersonal dynamics among the team members.

"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 participants 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.

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.

 

Cost:

$1,395 per attendee.