Creating Results Based Teams — Anytime, Anywhere, with Anyone (workshop)
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So many want to know: "How can I master cross-functional and collaborative leadership?"
Attention VPs, Directors, Team Leads, ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, Project Managers, and professionals who work in teams to get things done. Now you can…
Confidently get more done with less stress and more fun
By applying proven, reliable, and repeatable step-by-step team leadership framework and practices that build cohesive, high-performance team dynamics and get things done under conditions of shared responsibility.
Double your team leadership ability fast, then double it again…
Most professionals don't realize there is a legitimate science and repeatable technology to building and leading teams. There is, and Christopher has been defining, applying, and teaching it for nearly 20 years (see testimonials). |
You will…
- Understand why a team does or doesn't generate a felt sense of shared responsibility
- Have diagnostic and interpersonal tools you can use to build collaboration
- Know there is always an effective action you can take to build any team, at any time
In this 2-day (or 3-day*) intensive, you will learn how to understand, orient, build, and lead any team any time. Guaranteed.
Agile methods say you should be collaborative. In Creating Results Based Teams — Anytime, Anywhere, with Anyone we show you exactly how to make that happen.
Check out video testimonials from agile experts Ronica Roth, Jean Tabaka, and Ryan Martens.
Wasn't this workshop once called Knowledge Team Leadership? You bet. We changed the name. Knowledge Team Leadership was not conveying the content and benefits. Still, here are some useful video endorsements from Chris John, Rachel Weston, and Wendy Nagy.
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We will serve snacks and drinks, and occasionally lunch. Your travel, lodging, and other meals (including perhaps a group dinner for our study session) will be on your own.
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Early Bird registration of $797, save $200 - up until 4 weeks prior to the workshop
Regular registration of $997 - within 4 weeks of the workshop
Register for 3 or more on the same order and shopping cart will automatically apply a 10% discount (we will follow up later for names and contact information).
Register for 10 or more on the same order and shopping cart will automatically apply a 25% discount. Read below about the value of attending with your team...
Cancellation policy
You may substitute anytime. Cancel more than 4 weeks prior for a full refund. You may switch session dates anytime. No refunds after switching a session date.
4 major benefits
Results - Reliably produce results because you understand exactly what to do when you share responsibility with others.
Confidence - When you understand exactly how shared responsibility works, you can be confident that the only thing that stops you in teams is you. You are larger than any team problem. You can overcome any team challenge.
Lower Stress - When you are clearer about what to do to move forward, you experience less anxiety.
More Fun - Being a part of a great team is never boring, dull, or a strain. It's always rewarding and feels effortless even though you are intensely focused and working hard.
A few specific benefits
- Demonstrate people and organizational savvy especially when and where authority and process are fuzzy
- Get your own work done easier, faster, and better when dependent on others
- Surround yourself with team members who take ownership
- Get things done across boundaries by knowing what to do to move any collaboration, partnership or team forward
- Overcome any team challenge by demonstrating competence and confidence about getting to breakthrough when confronted with differences and conflict
- Get past upsets and frustrations faster, more naturally, and with less residue
- Know how and when to gently contribute or, if necessary, take charge to get folks aligned and moving forward
- Gain respect and put yourself in the position to be promoted
Attend individually or with your team
This learning event is effective and highly productive for members, leaders, or both together—we've seen the results year after year. For intact teams of three or more attending together, you will so accelerate your work progress that the two days away to attend this event will be made up within a week or we'll gladly make it right including returning your tuition.
What you receive
- 2 full days of intensive hands-on proven-on-the-front-lines-of-leadership skill-building. We'll study from 8:30am to 9pm the first day (yes, 9pm) and 8:30am to 5pm the second
- A practical "lab" experience. The non-optional lab from 5pm until 9pm on Day 1 is a self-organizing group study session you can accomplish over dinner with others. This unique lab is how you integrate and demonstrate your new insights about team leadership -- immediate application followed by debrief the next day
- A valuable "image-based" participant manual containing your customized notes. Many graduates report referencing theirs for years afterwards
- Certificate of Completion for 20 classroom hours. Participants who fully engage in the entire intensive from beginning to end will receive a certificate for 20 (not 16) hours you can use to claim PDU's or continuing education credits from your professional association.
- Leadership skills based on what works naturally (called "is"-based) as opposed to "should"-based models requiring everyone to read the same book or attend the same training
- Your own copy of Christopher's book Teamwork Is An Individual Skill: Getting Your Work Done When Sharing Responsibility to reference and reinforce your continued learning after the intensive
- Your own copy of The Leader's Guide supplement to Teamwork Is An Individual Skill for role-specific guidance about how to apply the principles in the book (and training intensive)
- Invitation to a private 60-75 minute follow-up teleconference with Christopher Avery and your class-mates a few weeks following the live session. You will have the unique opportunity to ask questions after having an opportunity to apply your new leadership skills on the job
Learn to…
- Apply the Responsibility Process™ when things go wrong so you can get the team moving forward again immediately
- Take ownership for the productivity of your team, no matter what your role
- Get others to show you their most responsible behavior rapidly so you'll have confidence in your peer leadership abilities
- Practice the 5 highest leverage activities you can do to build any team any time
- Learn the keys to building your team without taking time away from work for team building so you don't have to sacrifice productive time together
- Rethink how you define a team (by it's members or by the collective task). It will change how you view team performance.
- Discover why team member motivation is more critical to project team success than technical skill and expertise so that you can master dealing with issues of peer motivation
- Understand and master the universal keys to motivating peers who don't report to you
- Create contexts that drive healthy team dynamics of trust, respect for individuals, and goodwill and cooperation
- Determine how to trust just right in any situation with anyone for the rest of your life for amazing self-confidence and freedom
- Employ 4 Steps for cleaning up broken agreements and relationships mistakes so that you can get back on track quickly without losing trust
- Internalize 3 never-fail formulas for breaking through conflict so that you can remain calm and focused when facing the heat
- Understand and capitalize on the huge inventory of talents, skills, characteristics, preferences, strengths, and abilities that others bring to your team
- Adopt a simple, portable, and complete meeting system that works every time so you never have to host a ineffective meeting again
- Turn conflict into breakthrough over and over again for higher levels of team performance
- Learn why criticism kills teams and what to do instead so people still get the useful feedback they want, need, and deserve for improved performance
- Provide effective feedback and communicate expectations without criticizing or diminishing teammates
Check out...
Important testimonial video from Rally Software CEO Tim Miller.
Many more thoughtful video testimonials from attendees
Recent client internal feedback (metrics and comments) from leaders of a major Bay area retailer
Agile coach Daniel Mezick interviews Christopher about Creating Results-Based Teams
View Christopher's QCon session on creating teams
Watch InfoQ editor Amr Elsamadissey's interview with Christopher
Host private 2-day or 3-day sessions for your groups
Contact us to inquire about bringing this workshop to your organization.
*Some companies prefer to use the 3-day format rather than ask their students to commit to a 12-hour day.
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 "an incredible difference in terms of how these folks work together in ways that are very, very different from how they started out" ...read full review
"We took over 200 employees in one division through Partnerwerks' program over the course of a year. We have been very, very happy with the content of Partnerwerks program and model as well as with their service.
This process has made an incredible difference in terms of how these folks work together in ways that are very, very different from how they started out. Qualitative differences have to do with vastly improved
meetings, in terms of
- how much work is done,
- how much people participate,
- how long meetings take, and
- the extent to which people are able to make decisions quickly, carefully, thoughtfully and productively.
We certainly have experienced a significantly increased rate of participation and involvement in the division. Folks feel more valued, i.e., that what they have to say might actually be of interest to other folks.... Morale has improved in a lot of ways and the expectations of folks in the organization have continued to increase. They feel not only more empowered but more entitled. This has them being consumers of management and leadership attention units, so they are much more articulate about what isn’t working."
Dr. Tracy Gibbons
OD Specialist
Advanced Micro Devices
 "made a huge difference in my ability to orient and lead teams that deliver results" ...read full review
"Your training on how shared responsibility works in the mind of every human being and what to do about it to build powerful teams is the best I've ever seen. I thought I knew a lot about leading agile project teams before attending. Now I know so much more.
This workshop, and especially the principles of the Responsibility Process™, have made a huge difference in my ability to orient and lead teams that deliver results, in my agile software development consulting practice, and in my life.
Thank you Christopher for investing your life in understanding and teaching this information."
Ashley Johnson
Co-Founder, Gemba Systems , Dallas, Texas
"successes continue in my life and work because of three practices I learned....read full review
"First, I'm much better at owning the results I create in teams-both good and bad. When I take that kind of responsibility, then I correct and improve faster, as do others around me... I catch myself blaming or making excuses and instead ask myself what I need to do to own it and effectively move on. It has changed how I manage because I hear the difference and am able to reward the people who are truly taking responsibility . I spend less time worrying about people who are good at making excuses. I just stop investing in folks who aren't taking responsibility. And, I invest in people who do. Your model of personal responsibility has had a tremendous work impact because I seared it into my brain and recognize the difference in myself and others. I even use the information with my kids.
Second, I no longer view a team in terms of one leader and a bunch of followers. That's a hierarchical view. In fact, you teach leadership through membership and membership through leadership. I remember when someone in class actually said "We've been here for two-and-a-half days learning about team membership, when are you going to talk about team leadership?" That's when I realized powerful teams are composed of many leaders. Each and every individual is called upon to lead at different times and for different reasons. And, as aAs manager, if I reserve all leadership opportunities for myself, then I will end up with only followers - grudging followers - and we won't be a powerful team. This has made my teams in the last five years much stronger.
Third, I'm much more in touch with people in their job than I ever was before. I put little thought into what someone got personally from coming to work. It didn't much matter to me. But it has stuck with me ever sense. I learned how to sit down and ask people what they wanted to get out of the project - with everybody, not just the team lead! I know what makes them excited to get up in the morning and come to work. My relationships have been much better since that. Managing relationships effectively and productively is critical to the workplace. You may not be able to quantify it, but you know it's expensive to productivity when relationships are broken. You don't get those types of things in management classes.
In five years these powerful teams have delivered almost every project run on-time and on-budget and employee retention has been excellent."
Dale Legband,
Director, R&D, KLA-Tencor
"I attended with my department. We left immediately more effective and efficient."...
...read full review..."I attended with my department. We left immediately more effective and efficient. Our most obvious and lasting change is how we keep each other informed, address emerging issues and make decisions. Now, years after we attended, and even though team members have turned over, our meetings and communications are highly respectful, more open, and better focused. We make better and faster decisions and people operate with greater clarity and a sense of alignment. And, the benefits continue. One of my team leads who didn't even attend with us still goes to your web site today to pull tips off of it to help the process of developing teams and pulling team members together."
Jeff H. Zon
Director IT, Whole Foods Market Corporation
"I have so much respect for you and what you've created and consider myself privileged to meet you and learn from you. I hope that the principles in this workshop can assist the people in our organization in looking at themselves, identifying the changes that need to made, and then looking outward in becoming more effective both individually and as a team member."
Shannon Newell
AT&T Wireless
"Knowledge Team Leadership changed my perceptions permanently and will aid me significantly in my personal and business development as well as my ability to deliver to my clients."
Karen Bard
Client Application Consultant, Landmark Graphics Corp.
"it’s easy to say a class is good a few days after taking it."
...read full review "It’s easy to say a class is good a few days after taking it. Almost two years after taking your class, I can confidently say it's the best class I've taken and has had a tremendous positive impact on my leadership and teamwork skills.
When I took the class I was struggling to find happiness leading a team of 5 people in a highly collaborative culture that focused on servant leadership. Two years after taking the class I was having fun leading a team of over 60 people. Today I enjoy seeing the level of teamwork, trust and collaboration has improved within the teams because many others have taken the class.
When I took your class I had the intention to improve my leadership skills, and the frameworks you presented gave me the structure to execute on that. Thank you."
Zach Nies,
CTO, Rally Software
"Thanks for a great class! If I wanted to significantly improve my team's performance, I'd call Christopher Avery first. Your 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
"This was an excellent class that pulled together some things that I knew with new things that filled in gaps. Overall it was a great learning experience and I expect to use the knowledge and experience from this class on my next team."
Rick Smith, Valtech, Dallas, TX
"I learned skills and techniques that will help me excel in any team setting. These skills cross personal and professional boundaries to enrich one's entire life."
Frank Branham
Project Manager, Heartland Payment Systems
"Thank you for the terrific session. I am not easily impressed with training" ...read full review
"Thank you for the terrific session. I am not easily impressed with training -- probably my background in development and delivery make me a tough critic. Your session is very, very good in content, design, and delivery. The material is a just right blend of core concepts and practical processes to help individuals prime themselves for success in today's unique work environments. Very well done.
I was particularly impressed with the amount and type of practices included. As a former training designer I know how difficult and important it is to include effective practice opportunities for students, particularly in the soft skills areas that promote behavior and mind set change. Your practices were great. So thanks again, good job, and I will be recommending you and this workshop to my colleagues both inside my organization and out."
Tammy Dietz
IT Training Manager, AT&T Wireless, Seattle, WA
 "Extremely effective... ...read full review
I just have to tell you that I tried to explain the Responsibility Process™ to my 23 year old daughter and her friend and it worked just great! They are studying at a program for HR-people at the university and my daughter's friend was so inspired that she considers to change her topic for a major paper. Now I have translated the words of the process into Swedish plus the notes that I took during the seminar and I will use this as my own background material for a demonstration later on with my group at work.
I had one afternoon free on Thursday after the seminar, sitting at Stanstead airport waiting. So I went through the notes and tried to translate what I found to be the most relevant parts with my group in mind. I'm thinking of using one theme at each weekly meeting as an extra to the today's agenda. I will introduce the Meeting Management rotation. Great stuff. I love it!...
What really, really stayed with me after the seminar is the part on expansion and win-win thinking. I have had the opportunity to demonstrate this different perspective in some strategic discussions with my boss and the top politicians. Extremely effective and ground-winning. They hardly even notice what's going on, but suddenly their thinking is much more positive and there are new and interesting ways of getting ahead.
THANK YOU!!!"
Palaemona Mörner
Nyköpings, Sweden
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