Building Star Teams
Teams have emerged as a tool to capture changing workforce knowledge, while productively increasing the bottom line. However, knowing when and how to best use teams is a complex art and skill. Based on your needs, Janelle works with you to choose the right keynote, workshop, retreat or curriculum. Following is a sampling of topics:

Creating Teams

* Why and when to use teams as a business strategy
* Create employee buy-in
* Types of Information Age teams
* Putting together a new team -- getting to know each other
* What are the typical developmental stages of a team?
* What roles help the team handle their own process more effectively?
* How to use sponsors to assure influential support

Challenges

* Expertly guide your team through change
* How to increase creativity and constructiveness in problem solving
* Use problem solving and conflict management to build a team
* Expand a team's risk-taking ability
* How to handle emotionally charged team meetings
* How to deal with or remove a disruptive team member
* Team re-building

Cooperation

* Increase team collaboration
* Create interdepartmental cooperation
* Competition vs. cooperation
* Working together to serve the customer better
* Motivating everyone to participate
* Team assessment for continual improvement in cooperation
* Understanding Synergy Builders and learning to avoid Synergy Busters

Communications

* How to run great meetings that get results and don't waste time, balancing both process and relationships
* Establish guidelines to promote effective team communication
* Beyond words: how to listen for the real meaning
* Create clear team communications
* How to ask questions that teach people to think, get the information you need and get your desired results
* Handle emotional communications with more finesse
* Informal communications, spontaneous meetings and other tools to increase team communications
* Getting all the personalities on the team to communicate better and collaborate

Power/Empowerment

* How to decide who should have the power and make the decisions: answering empowerment questions
* Assessing the rights and responsibilities of an individual within the team
* Self-directed teams
* The In vs. the Out group

Leadership

* Team leadership: a new skill
* What type of leadership is most appropriate for which type of team?
* Finding out what motivates people
* How to get commitment to the goal and vision
* How to build trust in a team
* Building team spirit
* Leading vs. following
* Some cautions on team building