12 Episodes
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75 Minutes
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English
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Self-Paced
Micro-Learning
Target Audience
About This Season
Discover the art of intentionally crafting high-performing teams in this season. You’ll delve into the principles of having a clear vision and defined roles, fostering a culture of trust, and embracing collaborative excellence. Through real-world examples and research-backed insights, you’ll learn how to create a supportive and innovative team environment. By the end of the season, you’ll be equipped with practical tools and strategies to boost your team’s performance, enhance productivity, and ensure sustained success. Join us to unlock your team’s full potential and drive meaningful change in your organization.
What You'll Learn
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The power of a clear vision in uniting teams.
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Strategies to define and align team roles and responsibilities.
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Techniques to foster collaborative excellence and innovation.
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How to create a culture of continuous learning and growth.
Templates
Methods
Join us in transforming your approach to team leadership. Embrace the principles of clear vision, defined roles, and collaborative excellence to unlock your team’s full potential. Start your journey to building a motivated and high-performing team today. Subscribe to our season and take the first step towards meaningful change and sustained success. Together, let’s reimagine what’s possible for you and your team.
Episodes
Episode 1: Introduction
Definition of high-performing teams and the importance of intentionality.
Samantha’s experience and purpose in team development.
Overview of key characteristics of high-performing teams.
Encouragement to reflect on current team status and goals.
Episode 2: Direction: Clear Vision and Goals
Importance of a shared vision for team effectiveness.
Steps to create and communicate a clear team vision.
Aligning team goals with organizational strategy.
Monitoring and adjusting the vision and goals regularly.
Episode 3: Alignment: Defined Roles and Responsibilities
Significance of clear roles and responsibilities in team success.
Using frameworks like RACI and DACI for role clarity.
Benefits of role clarity for accountability and performance.
Implementing regular meetings to track progress.
Episode 4: Alignment: Team Behaviors
Importance of team behaviors in achieving goals.
Categories of team behaviors: learning, emotional intelligence, task execution, maintenance, social cohesion, high-performance, and cohesive behaviors.
Example of aligning team behaviors in an EdTech startup.
Reflection and goal-setting for desired team behaviors.
Episode 5: Collaborative Excellence: Building Trust and Psychological Safety
Definition and importance of psychological safety.
Building psychological safety through open communication and empathy.
Examples and research supporting the benefits of psychological safety.
Practical steps to foster psychological safety in teams.
Episode 6: Trust
Trust as the foundation of high-performing teams.
The Trust Equation: credibility, reliability, intimacy, and self-orientation.
Building trust through vulnerability, dependability, and connecting on a human level.
Practical tips for fostering trust within teams.
Episode 7: Enhancing Collaboration (Operating Manual of Me)
Importance of human connections in collaboration.
Creating personal user guides to understand individual work styles.
Building deeper mutual understanding and trust.
Benefits of leveraging diverse perspectives for team success.
Episode 8: Fostering Communication and Collaboration Part 1: Reactive Tendencies
Understanding unconscious reactive tendencies in team communication.
Karen Horney’s three main reactive tendencies.
Using the “core quadrant” model to balance core qualities and challenges.
Tips for managing reactive tendencies and enhancing communication.
Episode 9: Fostering Communication and Collaboration Part 2: Giving and Receiving Feedback
Importance of candid and caring conversations in team communication.
Non-violent communication (NVC) model for feedback.
Four steps of NVC: observations, feelings, needs, and requests.
Practical examples of using NVC for effective feedback.
Episode 10: Creating a Continuous Learning Environment (Coaching)
Benefits of a continuous learning environment for team performance.
Coaching culture as a key to continuous learning.
Simple coaching framework for day-to-day interactions.
Creating psychological safety through supportive feedback and reflection.
Episode 11: The Most Important Team FUNdamental: The Fun Factor
Importance of fun in boosting engagement, creativity, and productivity.
Examples of integrating fun into the workplace.
Specific activities to build trust and team cohesion.
Benefits of a fun and flexible work environment.
Episode 12: Wrap Up
Recap of key points covered in the season.
Importance of revisiting and reinforcing team vision, roles, and behaviors.
Celebrating successes and maintaining open communication.
Final thoughts on the continuous journey of building high-performing teams.
About the Speaker
Connecting people to accelerate impact. Enabling leaders to embrace and lead change; supporting them to thrive in complexity and uncertainty in order to have real impact in the world.
Samantha Yarwood is seeker of new knowledge and connections who has translated her 20+ years experience as a global leader at Starbucks, super connector, speaker and intrapreneur (marketer and innovator) to designing and delivering transformational solutions for an array of customers from startups to blue-chip organizations globally to drive meaningful environmental and social change.
Her purpose in life is to act as a catalyst/tool for change to help individuals and organizations reimagine the possible, positively impacting the world. She believes that leadership grows – and that we need to cultivate as much of it as we can to truly transform our world(s). She supports leaders at all levels and sizes of organizations by combining research and practice to help people grow on the job.
