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How to Motivate, Manage and Lead a Real Team

Discover the breakthrough strategies top managers use to motivate, manage and lead an effective team.

Program Description:

You probably already know this – but it’s worth getting out in the open now….few of us actually likes teams. Mediocre teams can slow us down, cause more problems than solutions and eat up valuable time and resources.

So why have teams in the first place?

When assembled correctly, teams can be amazing. Fewer redundancies. Better ideas. More ownership. Faster completion of critical tasks. Do you know what it takes to really make a team work? Do you know the intricacies of motivating them, managing them and leading them (and we’re not talking about being a glorified babysitter!)

Whether you have a choice in determining who will be on the team or you’ve inherited a team that’s been around for years, your ability to keep them motivated, accountable and working together can determine your sanity and your job security.

How do you deal with the different personalities that make up a team? How do you get them to work together? How do you safely encourage dissension without destroying morale? How do you stimulate trust, information sharing, high morale, creativity and accountability?

What the difference between a workgroup and a real team? How do you deal with rotten behaviors and nasty attitudes? Or people who just won’t participate? What models work best when it comes to structuring your teams and which ones will leave you frustrated?

After completing Brian Norris' one-day “How to Motivate, Manage & Lead a Real Team” workshop, you’ll have the answers to these questions and others. Brian brings you new, innovative methods ... and updates some tried and true approaches too.

How you will benefit

  • Learn what it take to really motivate people (balloons aren't the way to go).

  • Develop strategies to strengthen teams (you won't have to fall back into the role of mommy, daddy or referee or baby-sitter).

  • Confront people problems and overcome obstacles (remove the apple before it spoils the rest of your fruits).

  • Assemble more productive teams the first time (you've got to make teams work AND do everything else you're supposed to be doing during a 10 hour shift).

You and your teams will be put through some powerful exercises and activities that prove definitively that teams can work under the right conditions. You’ll be given specific strategies for keeping your teams accountable, self-sufficient, motivated and creative.

This isn’t a course in theory or watered-down psycho babble. This team-building training program contains real ideas for real companies that demand real results from their employees.

Who Should Attend?

Managers, supervisors and other leaders responsible for building teams and ensuring they produce results.

Workshop Agenda:

The Value of Expectations

  • 5 expectations to set with your team daily
  • The power of a professional attitude
  • How to create an environment where teams can actually grow
  • Ideas for managing egos and personal issues before they even enter the building
  • Separating the winners from losers

What it Takes

  • Hand, Mouth & Feet – Why everyone needs to work together
  • 9 essential ingredients that all high functioning teams must have
  • The power of the credible threat and how to use it to get consistent results
  • Quick exercises to get your teams talking and sharing ideas
  • The 2 absolute best ways to motivate people

IDENTIFY and Analyze Team Troubles Like a Pro

  • The top reasons teams become dysfunctional & fail
  • How to assess team performance without destroying morale
  • Should you ever sit in on a team meeting? The answer may surprise you

Building Successful, Autonomous, Accountable Teams

  • 7 keys to structuring teams
  • Developing team guidelines you can live by
  • How to make sure goals and objectives are understood
  • When it seems like the plane is going down! How to get your team to function in high-stress situations
  • Why everyone must be given a chance to shine and how to do it
  • How to use the tools you already have to manage, motivate and lead your team
  • Why performance evaluations often fail and what you can do about it
  • The power of levity
  • An introduction to Problem Busting & how to use it resolve almost any problem
  • How to communicate goals with employees and bosses so that they actually care!
  • Are mistakes a good thing? Find out here.
  • How to get your teams to look for the positive 
  • Using performance-based incentives to generate profitable ideas and encourage innovation
  • Understanding your role as coach, mentor and counselor
  • Are you spending too much time with your underperformers?
  • Encouraging your teams to learn effortlessly

Managing and Adapting to Different Team Cultures and Work Styles

  • How to cultivate an environment that supports different team cultures
  • 9 critical areas where you must have consistency – or else
  • What to do so that it doesn’t become personal
  • Should everyone be managed and led the same? Not on your life!
  • How to recognize the four  IDEA styles at work and getting the most from each one
  • Managing and motivating by generations
  • The ultimate motivation strategy…

CONFRONT Problem People and Eliminate Obstacles

  • The secret to ridding your team of cliques and one-upmanship
  • How to identify and reign in the top negative personalities
  • Understanding why people act the way they do
  • 12 fail-safe strategies for dealing with problem behaviors before its too late
  • Need to get someone to stop talking? Learn how to do it here.
  • How to put a stop to dirty tactics and turf guarding
  • Sidestep the #1 pitfall when team members critique each other
  • How to add and remove members ... without creating new problems
  • Making meetings efficient, effective and energetic
  • Using peer pressure instead of management pressure to get things done
  • Strategies for dealing with gossiping
  • Conducting the exit interview
  • A bonus technique to get team members involved in the success of their newest teammates
  • How to get team members to resolve their own differences and stop running to you all the time
Use this workshop to help managers, team leads and department heads succeed in their team building objectives. This workshop is also ideal for existing teams who want to recharge, work together more dynamically, solve problems faster, reduce turnover and keep morale from sabotaging fiscal priorities.

How much? My fee is $3500, plus travel and accommodations.

Please call 414-899-1905 or email info@briannorris.com to book a date to bring “How to Motivate, Manage & Lead a Real Team” to your organization.

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 Bring Brian's legendary blend of passion, insight and inspiration to your organization. Reserve your dates today by calling 414-899-1905, or emailing us today.

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