Class Details
- Class Name:
- How to Coach Your People to Think Independently
- Audience:
- Presidents, CEOs, plant managers, engineers, quality professionals, supervisors, front-line staff and associates
- Duration:
- 1 Day Course
- Language:
- English
Learning Objectives
- Learn alternatives to traditional teambuilding
- Develop a team that enthusiastically craves hard work
- Design a team that's the right size
- Teach the team to problem solve
- Learn how to let go of decision making without losing control
Outline At-a-Glance
Step 1: Understand the Proven Path to Teams
- Understand why traditional teambuilding never works, and what you should do instead
- Discover the new four-step process to implement teams and why it makes so much sense
- Learn why you should implement teams (the reasons are different than you have heard!)
- Learn your employees crave more than weekends, vacations, benefits or paychecks, and how to tap into it to create an unstoppable desire for teamwork and achievement
- How to reinvigorate your current teams, and get them performing at a new level
- How to stop doing your subordinates' work, and start developing them
Step 2: Design Your Teams
- Understand how to decide the ideal team size for your organization, and why groups that are too big will never function well as a team
- How to design teams to create ownership and accountability
- Learn how to measure your teams' performance and why good measures will mean less need to manage
- Understand what work should be done by teams, and when an individual working alone is more appropriate
- Understand the benefits of knowledge-based pay, and how to implement it in the organization
Step 3: Coach Your Team Members To Think Independently
- Discover why coaching is the foundation of effective teams
- Learn how to teach your people to stop coming to you with problems, and start coming to you with solid solutions
- Understand why first-line supervisors are the key to team success, and why trying to eliminate them is a counterproductive reason to implement teams
- Learn why it is crucial to teach your associates to think independently before expecting them to function in self-directed teams
- How to let go of decision making without losing control
- How to help your people overcome their fear of accepting responsibility
- Learn when to let an associate make a mistake - and when not to
- Understand how to create a positive atmosphere which encourages initiative and risk-taking
- Learn how to tell the difference between problem employees who are salvageable, and those whom you must let go without delay
- Why conflicts will be reduced by 50% by getting people to think independently
Step 4: Lead Your Team Members To Achieve Together
- How to lead team meetings, and how to teach your team to have them without you
- Understand why you should avoid assigning functional roles for team members, and what to do instead
- Discover the surprising reason why teams do not need leaders, and why team leaders destroy teamwork
- Understand how coaches should lead teams, and how many teams a coach can handle
- Learn how to lead your team to enthusiastically accept greater responsibilities
- Learn the four-step process of team maturation, and how to help your team survive it
- Discover how to teach your team members the XYZ task tracking technique to ensure that they will meet their commitments to you and each other
- How to lead teams to help other teams, without jealousy or turf wars
- Discover how to inspire your team to develop breakthrough ideas and reach impossible goals
- How to build loyalty in your team
- Learn the #1 complaint of team members about their coach, and how to avoid it
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