TEAM BUILD 2.0Program agenda

MAY 9 & 10 | DOWNTOWN CHICAGO

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

A strong team is essential to driving organizational growth and success in today’s rapidly changing world. Business leaders rely on having high-functioning teams that work together toward common goals and across functions.

Crain’s Team Build 2.0 is an interactive program that emphasizes how to build and sustain effective teams.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

As a result of having completed this program, team participants will be able to:1. Describe characteristics of a high performing team2. Assure that their team stays relevant and continuously adds value 3. State how their team fits into the big picture of the company’s mission, vision and goals4. Describe how to approach and solve problems5. Communicate effectively and build relationships, within their team and with others6. Maximize effectiveness of their team

As a result of having completed this program, team participants will be able to:

Describe characteristics of a high-performing team

Assure that their team stays relevant &

continuously adds value

State how their team fits into the big picture of the company’s mission, vision

& goals

Describe how to approach & solve problems

Maximize effectiveness of their team

Communicate effectively & build relationships, within their team and with others

DAY 1 | 8:30 A.M. - 5 P.M.

Introduction & describe characteristics of a high-performing team

8:30 - 10:00 Introduce selves and share experiences of working on teams; what worked well? What didn’t What are participants’ needs for this workshop? What kind of team member am I?

Storytelling, flip charts, presentations - facilitator summarize and insert “expert” content

State at least four characteristics of a high-performing team

Break 10:00 - 10:15

State how their team fits into the big picture of the company’s mission, vision and goals

10:15 - 11:30 Map your team in the organization (up/down/across & outside-in); create draft team value statement, objectives and operating principles

Work in teams to complete documents and share some output with group

Draft of team map, value statement, objectives and operating principles; state company big picture and how the team fits

Lunch 11:30 - 12:30

Describe how to approach and solve problems and maximize team effectiveness

12:30 - 2:30 How does team make decisions and leverage the skills of the team members; how does team declare problems and communicate for accountability and breakthrough?

Team exercise: given a task, assess how well team performs under pressure and with monkey wrench changes thrown in

Recognize and discuss issues with respect to prioritization; clarity of goal/problem; communication effectiveness

Break 2:30-2:45

Maximize effectiveness of their team

2:45-3:30 Introducing the Tool Kit: Team Charter; Shared purpose/vision/mission; communicating for accountability and breakthrough (separating face from assumptions, language of commitment, etc.)

Handouts; discuss how the problem solving may have gone better with some of these tools; examples from their work teams; pair shares

State at least three ideas they can use to improve the performance of their team

Assure team stays relevant and adds value

3:30 - 4:15 What is success today? How might that differ in x years? Barriers and opportunities to add value

Table group discussions Describe success for the team and state at least 2 potential future challenges and 1 potential new source of value

Reflect 4:15-5:00 What was observed, learned, new questions

Participants journal

LEARNING OBJECTIVE TIME CONTENT COVERED TEACHING METHOD ASSESSMENT

DAY 2 | 8:30 A.M. - 5 P.M.

Review of Day 1 8:30 - 9:00 What did you learn yesterday that you can apply? What do you need more help with? What would you like to cover today?

Discussion Describe their takeaways from Day 1 and objectives for today

Assure their team stays relevant and continuously adds value

9:00 - 11:00 (with break built in)

Where does uncertainty come in? How can a team make the most of it? How can the team turn uncertainty to its advantage?

Simulation on working in a VUCA environment (team members & perhaps the leader, change; the organization may change; (the operating environment may too)

State at least four conclusions drawn from the simulation

Communicate effectively and build relationships, within their team and with others

11:00 - 12:00 Conflict and collaboration Discussion with examples Discuss how conflicts can be dealt with and methods to collaborate within and across teams

Lunch 12:00 - 1:00

Describe how to approach and solve problems

1:00 - 2:30 Presenting a framework for building an innovative mindset

Exercise of working through the framework with the team

State the elements of the framework

Break 2:30 - 2:45

Maximize effectiveness of their team

2:45 - 3:45 Other roadblocks and challenges to overcome: virtual teams; poor leadership; culture

Post-it note activity; participants post challenges while others post proposed solutions

State three challenges and bestpractice ideas for dealing with them

Maximize effectiveness of their team

3:45 - 4:45 Tying it all together: creating an action plan based on the concepts from this class

Handouts; examples; pair shares State at least three ideas they can use to improve the performance of their team

LEARNING OBJECTIVE TIME CONTENT COVERED TEACHING METHOD ASSESSMENT