“Great discoveries and achievements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.”

-Alexander Graham Bell

“A High Performance team is a multi-functional, self managing, group of people organized around a whole process and empowered with its success.” – Roger Allen

The characteristic of high performing teams are that they are able to see the whole process, can solve problems when and where they occur and are able to make decisions that impact the results of their team. But these outcomes don’t happen without information, resources and skills. And these skills don’t always come naturally.

In fact, more often than not, we don’t even talk about all the necessary elements to achieve these goals. But rest assured, they can be identified, learned and practiced. And, we can start today.

High Performance Advocates can help you and your team learn the skills they need. Whether it is conveniently timed workshops using an adult learning model or a intensive retreat, you will get  information, exercises and fun chances to practice new skills. We can help you design the program best suited to your group.

Personal Productivity: Acting From Your Priorities

Understand the difference between “urgent” and “important.” Develop habits of self-management that allow you to schedule time for the important. Learn how you are currently using your time, and the barriers which keep you from managing your time more effectively. Create a systematic approach to managing daily events.

Group Decision Making and Problem Solving

It is critical that teams learn both of these skills. In this fun and interactive workshop, you’ll be taken through a simulated life or death exercise to discover the ways groups make decisions. Then it becomes easy to learn methods of decision making that will improve your team or organization’s outcomes. Learn and practice the skill of creative brainstorming to help your team think outside the box, analyze problems as a part of a group problem solving model to help your team will improve its problem solving skills while making good decisions.

Group Dynamics

What the heck are group dynamics? Through team building exercises, experience group dynamics in action. Rate your team’s dynamics and determine what you can do to improve your team. Experience and discuss what makes and breaks your team’s process and learn about shared leadership in action.

Why High Performance Teams Work

In this fun and interactive workshop, you will create a model factory using a traditional, industrial business model. This model is similar to that of the 97% of organizations that don’t last more than 5 years. We then create the same factory, but using the High Performance model. Not only will you learn the skills and tools to turn your organization into a high-performing one but you’ll and you will see why revenue and job satisfaction soars for those who create high-performing teams.

Creating Your Own High Performing Team

Now you know teams work—but how do you go about creating them in your organization? And if you’ve created them, how can you make them successful? Using team-building exercises, and learning the types, roles, responsibilities and obstacles, you will discover how to take your work group and transform it into a high performance team.

Setting Goals and Keeping Score

If you don’t measure results, how will you know what they are? Understand the importance of setting goals and tracking your performance. Learn the building blocks of score keeping. Identify your team’s key result areas. Establish metrics in each of your key result areas. Assess your current performance. Set goals and action steps in each of your key result areas. Evaluate your feedback system.