LEADING TEAMS | CONTENT OVERVIEW
ESSENTIAL COLLABORATION STRATEGIES FOR LEADERS
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PART 1: COLLABORATION
Setting the foundations for collaborative genius.
Neuroscience of Collaboration
Understand collaboration from a brain perspective and the might of the ‘collective brain’.
Collaboration Practical Principles
Identify the essential principles of collaboration, the neuroscience behind each and which principles to focus on to improve how your team works and achieves together.
Interface: Setting others up to succeed
Avoid collaboration dynamics that operate on a win-lose or harsh exchange basis. Instead establish collaborative relationships based on setting each other up to succeed and delivering on practical needs.
Establishing Why
Understand the collective drive of purpose, and then create a line-of-sight between what you do and the value it creates in tangible terms.
60 Second Stand-Up Tool
Take this comms tool back to your team to get everybody on the same page quickly and effectively. Increase focus, cohesion and the cross-pollination of ideas.
PART 2: SOLUTION-FOCUS
Focus your team on what’s possible and resolve what’s not working.
Setting a Team Solution Focus
Understand what neuroscience has taught us about solution focus and reflect in how you lead your team and what you expect from them.
'Best For ...' Decision Making
Avoid caged thinking and instead qualify goals and strategic options through a decision making tool that supports lateral thinking.
Tool: The Six-Step Solution Process
Learn the ‘Six-step Solution Process’ to enable creative problem-solving, engage the collective-brain and get to solutions faster.
Healthy Contest of Ideas
People think differently, and so channel that diversity into creativity – and away from conflict – via a simple set of team agreements and coaching questions.
PART 3: PERFORMANCE
Don’t leave performance to chance, plan for peak performance
Peak Performance Framework
Measure your team against six key performance areas that are crucial for peak-performance, and then design real-world strategies to lift performance where needed.
Performance Interference
With a focus on delivery, use a tool from sports psychology to identify interference and then game-plan to remove it.
Tool: Performance Feedback
Take the sting out of performance feedback and use a light structure for the tougher conversations, where your team take the lead on making improvements.
Intrinsic Motivation
Identify your team’s intrinsic motivation values and then link to your strategic objectives to lift performance.
PART 4: CHANGE
Lead change, avoid drift and have everyone in the Waka
The Brain and Change
With change comes uncertainty. Understand how people respond to change differently and learn strategies to offset negative effects.
Known Unknowns
Navigate and lead your team through times of change by facilitating the ‘Known Unknowns’ exercise. Establish common knowledge and set actions to get through change and safeguard performance.
Innovation Coaching Tools
Be deliberate about innovation and gain tools to unfold your thinking to use as a team and also 1-2-1.
Pitch your case for change
Present the case for change via a communication model grounded in neurolinguistics. Share your vision of what could be, the value and road to getting there. Invite curiosity and enrol your team.
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