[Partnerwerks TeamWisdom Tips] Important Ad

Hi, Christopher Avery here. I hope you enjoyed the Tip this week on
negotiation style. I've prepared a whole series on negotiating, and
you'll get the next one in a couple weeks. Now, with your permission,
the ad...

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HOW TO GENERATE SHARED RESPONSIBILITY FOR KNOWLEDGE TEAM SUCCESS
√ Exposing the 5 greatest myths about team effectiveness
√ Accessing the 3 sources of power available to a leader
√ Applying the Responsibility Process Model™ when things go wrong
√ Demonstrating the Required Reality for 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
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√ What synergy really means, where it comes from, and how to create it
√ The simple test for individual decision making on high performing
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A PROVEN MODEL FOR ORIENTING AND REORIENTING KNOWLEDGE 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
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√ 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 knowledge team success
than technical skill and expertise
√ Recruiting, selecting, and working with what you are given.
√ Applying the glue 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
√ 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 KNOWLEDGE 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

PARTICIPANT MATERIALS
Each participant will receive:
• a comprehensive student manual,
• a prioritized list of additional and supportive learning resources,
• one autographed copy of "Teamwork Is An Individual Skill: Getting
Your Work Done When Sharing Responsibility,"
• one copy of "The Leader’s Guide,"
• a CD of document templates for virtual meeting tools and other tools
learned in the seminar, and,
• to support on-going learning, a complimentary subscription to
TeamWisdom Tips.

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS
We will assist participants in claiming continuing education credits
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Register now.
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Thanks for letting me barge into your day,
Christopher M. Avery
author, Teamwork Is An Individual Skill

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