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The Strategic Team Alignment Program

January 23, 2012 By Ira Chaleff Leave a Comment

PURPOSE:

This workshop is designed to develop a high-performance leadership team which is the spearhead of an organization. The workshop provides the knowledge, structure, tools, and processes necessary for such a team to provide exceptional leadership and build the collaborative skills necessary to create and sustain a world-class operation.

OBJECTIVES:

This workshop is designed to:

  • Gain understanding of and ability to manage the high-performance team process
  • Increase their focus on results
  • Receive powerful, 360 degree feedback on their leadership effectiveness, style, and skill
  • Increase their mutual trust, support, and interdependence
  • Gain clarity on purpose, values, vision, goals, priorities, and expectations
  • Clarify and develop agreement on their roles and responsibilities
  • Increase skill in communication, collaboration, giving feedback, management of differences, and managing performance
  • Improve problem solving and decision making
  • Increase cross-functional performance and decrease the effect of “silos”
  • Increase their ability to provide customer satisfaction
  • Increase their individual ability to self-manage
  • Increase accountability
  • Increase their ability to model and promote teamwork throughout the organization

METHODOLOGY:

The workshop is conducted in three stages: Foundations, Skill Building, and Sustainability. A variety of learning techniques are employed, based on recent discoveries in brain-based, adult learning, to maximize the participants’ internalization and application of the program’s content. Among the techniques used are experiential activities; creative, multi-modal processes; feedback; and self-directed learning.

FACILITATOR:

David Lassiter is the director and founder of Leadership Advantage, a coaching and consulting firm dedicated to helping executives, teams, and organizations achieve their objectives. David has over 20 years’ experience as an executive coach and designer and developer of executive, team, and organizational development programs for profit, not-for-profit, and government organizations. He is a pioneer in the use of 360 degree assessment for leadership development and the innovator of the Strategic Team Alignment process for maximizing team members’ growth, development, and performance.

LENGTH:

The workshop is comprised of three (3) workshops, of 2-3 days each, taken 30-45 days apart. Learning is embedded through applied work assignments between workshop sessions, 360 degree feedback face-to-face and through written reports.

Filed Under: David Lassiter, Workshops Tagged With: alignment, david lassiter, leadership, program, skills, strategic, support, team

The Strategic Leadership Alignment Program

January 23, 2012 By Ira Chaleff

PURPOSE:

To transform a leadership team’s ability to think, act, and work individually and collectively to achieve significantly increased performance, results, and satisfaction. The Strategic Leadership Alignment process provides the forum and opportunity to elevate the individual and collective ability of a team to think and work together in ways that liberate energy and optimize effectiveness. It is designed to help the team members understand and manage the internal factors influencing their effectiveness and the impact they have on others. The program will help the team increase the quality and quantity of its results – by working smarter, not harder through increased self-awareness and self-management and will improve the team’s communication, alignment, and mutual support.

OBJECTIVES:

The leadership team will:

  • Receive an assessment of its leadership and management style and/or skills and learn how they effect the members’ ability to work together with others
  • Expand its understanding of the key attitudes and behaviors related to high performance and increased satisfaction in the workplace
  • Enhance its ownership and accountability for issues and results
  • Create personal development plans to improve the members’ individual effectiveness
  • Gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics and key factors governing the team’s effectiveness
  • Significantly increase the levels of openness, trust, and respect among team members and noticeably decrease behaviors that block the ability to work together effectively
  • Visibly improve communication, cooperation, decision making, and problem solving
  • Achieve alignment on a set of high-performance operating principles
  • Develop understanding of core values and principles underlying a high-performance culture
  • Develop action plans to address key, “burning” issues impacting organizational performance

METHODOLOGY:

The precise content of the workshop is tailored to fit the needs of the specific team. A variety of teaching techniques are employed, based on recent discoveries in brain-based, adult learning, to maximize the participants’ internalization and application of the program’s content. Each participant receives a 360 degree assessment of performance effectiveness, style, and/or skill and one-on-one interpretation and discussion of the data.

FACILITATOR:

David Lassiter is the director and founder of Leadership Advantage, a coaching and consulting firm dedicated to helping executives, teams, and organizations achieve their objectives. David has over 20 years’ experience as an executive coach and designer and developer of executive, team, and organizational development programs for profit, not-for-profit, and government organizations. He is a pioneer in the use of 360 degree assessment for leadership development and the innovator of the Strategic Team Alignment process for maximizing team members’ growth, development, and performance.

LENGTH:

Primary Session – 3-4 days, followed by a one-day session approximately 4-6 weeks after the first session, plus personalized feedback sessions for each participant.

Filed Under: David Lassiter, Workshops Tagged With: alignment, david lassiter, program, strategic, team

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