Talent Optimizers High Performing Team Series
The Talent Optimizers High Performing Team Series provides a full talent performance program that provides a quick, effective, and sticky solution to improve how individuals and teams:
- Are aligned to execute strategy
- Communicate, delegate, problem-solve, respond to pressure and take action
- Make better and faster decisions
- Tap into the skills and opinions of all team members
- Avoid wasting time and energy on politics, confusion, and destructive conflict
Each workshop is built on a framework of using data to provide insight to develop individual and team action plans. The program is built using intuitive tools that will enable leaders to introduce these concepts to their direct reports and beyond.
The High Performing Team Series can be customized depending on organizational needs. A typical program includes:
Individual coaching to support group workshop sessions Individual coaching sessions with each team member to explore their unique Predictive index Behavioral profile and The Five Behaviors® Personal Development assessment to help:
Build relationships that thrive
- Solve people's issues in a flash. Discover how any two people work together and get instant recommendations.
- Become a better leader by building your emotional intelligence and facilitating more effective conversations.
- Instill confidence in your team that you’re listening and acting upon their feedback.
Become a better manager
- Understand yourself. Learn how your behavioral drives manifest as a people manager.
- Improve your management style by exploring your natural strengths and caution areas.
- Develop new leadership skills through actionable self-coaching tips.
Build a Culture of Teamwork That Drives Results
- Including tips and strategies for improving teamwork effectiveness and personalized, guided action planning
- Introducing the foundational principles for building a cohesive team based on The Five Behaviors model: Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability and Results.
- Explaining how unique personalities influence behaviors and the discipline required to overcome barriers caused by natural tendencies that make effective teamwork so elusive. The critical behaviors and interpersonal skills needed to be effective team players on any team.
- Understand how individual styles contribute to a team’s overall success.
Module 1 - Create awareness with people's dataWhat gives productive, high-achieving teams a competitive edge? Collaboration. In the constantly changing, technology-driven world we live in, ensuring there’s healthy collaboration within your teams is critical to building a strong culture and delivering results. The key to getting there is to start with self-awareness.
In this workshop, you’ll takeaway:
- How to understand and interpret people's data.
- How to apply the principles of talent optimization to manage and develop your employees.
- How to use people data to improve team dynamics and accelerate performance.
- An understanding of the characteristics of a high-performing team.
- A chance to explore the strengths and caution areas of individuals.
- How behavioral styles can influence a range of factors including communication, delegating, problem-solving, decision making, responding to pressure, and taking action.
- Development of individual action plans to help build a cohesive and high-performing team.
Module 2 - The Five Behaviors® Team DevelopmentBuild a cohesive team that drives results. The Five Behaviors model will be used to help team members learn to work together more efficiently and effectively and to become a more cohesive team.
In this workshop, you’ll takeaway:
- The critical behaviors based on the Five Behaviors model, including a foundation of vulnerability-based trust, needed to transform the way teams work together.
- How their team is performing on each of the behaviors in the Five Behaviors model. These results will help the team better understand their team dynamics and create action plans for areas of improvement.
Module 3 - Discovering Your Team TypeNo team is effective without trust and communication. With the help of an expert facilitator, this workshop helps you build a self-aware and trusting team. Establish an understanding of each team member’s motivations and work style, and uncover your group’s specific “Team Type.”
Through this catalyzing reveal, your team will become a unit, build lasting cohesion and collaboration habits. You’ll also uncover the group’s collective working style, strengths, blind spots and leave with a clear action plan to better work in harmony.
In this workshop, you’ll takeaway:
- Discover your Team Type – a uniting moment that fosters team pride and identity
- Establish a common language to communicate effectively as a group
- Define what needs to happen to work in harmony, long after the session is over
Module 4 - Designing for Strategic ActionMany teams aren’t a good fit for their objectives and don’t even realize it. The team may not even know or agree on those objectives, in the first place.
This workshop turns uncertain team performance around by mapping a group’s natural strengths to its short-term goals, exposing areas of misalignment, and providing recommendations to address them.
Attendees will learn how to “stretch” their skillset, so they can refocus their daily priorities to best serve the goals at hand. You’ll also be given a clear action plan on how to deliver on the proposed objectives with renewed confidence - so everyone is rowing in the same direction.
In this workshop, you’ll takeaway:
- Establish agreement on the team’s short-term and long-term goals
- Gain clarity on each team member’s roles and responsibilities to meet those goals
- Expose misalignment between strategic goals and behavioral strengths
- Learn the concept of ‘stretching’ a skillset and how that can improve performance
Module 5 - Optimizing Talent throughout your organization Many organizations enjoy the benefits of an independently trained facilitator delivering the High Performing Team Series throughout the organization. Alternatively, due to the simplicity of both the Predictive Index and Five Behavior solutions, we can empower the team to deliver the benefits of optimized talent throughout the organization.
We’ll work to recap each session and run through the resources and tools to deliver the High Performing Team Series to additional teams within your organization
In this workshop, you’ll takeaway:
- How to leverage data to coach individual and team performance.
- Introduce and coach teams on the Five Behaviors model, including a foundation of vulnerability-based trust, needed to transform the way teams work together.
- Introduce teams to their team strengths, blind spots, and how to turn friction into complementary strengths.
- Run team alignment to strategy sessions and develop action plans to ensure talent is aligned to execute on key goals.