Many teams have recently been working with fewer resources that they need to be productive, but the expectations of the team’s productivity have only increased. However, it IS possible to improve productivity, even during times of economic challenge and/or budget cuts. This program will help you learn to do that with your team in 3 simple steps:

1. Improve productivity by learning how to improve team relationships
2. Use different techniques to help teach your team how to do more with less
3. Use stress reduction techniques to reduce fear and feelings of pressure

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Changing Times, Changing Teams:

3 tips to ensure success for newly formed teams

When there is a great deal of change on a team, it can be disruptive, disorienting and difficult for team members to regroup and start gaining traction to produce results effectively together. Teams who recognize these challenges can turn their situations into a more positive environment to become more productive again using the 3 tips in this program – learn to:

1. Create greater efficiencies with the strengths you have with your team, regardless of change
2. Create an integration plan that smoothes transitions when teams are combining and collapsing
3. Minimize the void created by reduced staff resources

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Many factors contribute to a team’s morale, positively or negatively, so it’s critical that teams proactively work to maintain high morale, particularly during times of stress and challenge. In this class you’ll learn how to help your team implement the following 3 tips:

1. Identify creative ways to guide and provide your team with what they need (especially camaraderie!) during challenging times
2. Create an environment of buy-in and engagement from your team that will raise morale and re-energize them
3. Formulate a simple and no budget rewards, recognition and motivation program to raise morale and positive outlook

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Silos are extremely detrimental to teams, particularly for cross-functional and/or project teams that are comprised of multiple departments - silos can be responsible for communication breakdowns, project creep as well as team/project failure if not addressed. During this class you will learn how to:

1. Help stop silo thinking on your team before it starts by creating awareness of the telltale signs
2. Tips to get the team unstuck from silo thoughts and individual entrenched positions
3. “Bust” silo-thinking/habits by creating your team’s collaborative vision and plan for success

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Communication is the foundation of all relationships, and is critical to a team’s success. Communication is also the #1 challenge for most teams! To help your team create the most solid foundation possible for high-performing communication and results, you will learn during this class how to:

1. Give your team an opportunity to talk about their communication – what’s working well and not working well
2. Create better communication awareness with your team by making the connection to improved camaraderie and performance
3. Provide your team with communication tools they need to improve their effectiveness
4. Tap into the secret of the most effective communication tool of all: curiosity!

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No More Broken Promises: How to get your team to commit to greater accountability through team agreements

Building trust among team members is key to every team’s success, and trust gets created when team members make and uphold their commitments to each other over time. Most teams, however, don’t know how to create agreements that they can they hold each other accountable to, so this class will help you learn to:

1. Discover why your team may not be responding and performing with greater accountability
2. Create a safe environment for your team to openly communicate expectations and previous broken promises that have limited their effectiveness
3. Create team agreements and a team contract – with buy-in from ALL team members -- for greater accountability

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Elephants in the Room: Prevent a herd of unaddressed issues from stampeding your team’s success

Most teams are aware of issues that are holding them back from being successful in their work together, but they are afraid to bring up those issues during team meetings because they might create conflict, defensiveness or upset on the team. The end result is that these issues get larger over time (they do not go away!), and create huge obstacles to team success. In this class you will learn to:

1. Help your team get “unstuck” and improve their relationships by creating a safe environment to express highly charged, unspoken issues
2. Initiate greater trust and change by learning how to model bringing up “elephants” with your team
3. Provide your team with a process and tools they need to bring up the elephants in a non-threatening way

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Speed it up by Slowing Down: 

Harness the Hidden Power of Mindfulness to Improve Your Team’s Productivity

How many times do we try to be more productive by doing things multi-tasking and/or just moving at a faster pace? Those modes of operating MIGHT (although not usually!) work in the short term, but they are definitely not sustainable for the long term. Instead, there are many ways to improve productivity by actually slowing down! During this class you will:

1. Learn how slowing down can actually help your team become more productive
2. Explore how mindfulness can increase your effectiveness as a leader and team member
3. Discover hidden insights that might be holding your team back
4. Experience the benefits of mindfulness through awareness and practice!

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