Registration Page - Optimizing Temporary Teams

Phone: 503-293-3557 Toll Free: 800-577-3528 Fax: 503-293-8499

Continuing Education for Technical Professionals

Teams NOW! Fast, Fluid, Functional

1-day Workshop

June 5, 2008 - Beaverton, OR Also available privately at customer locations!

Quick enroll: Online Online: CEA Members fax or mail Phone: 503-293-3557

Overview

Teams are under strain—time is short and change inevitable. Hit the ground running. Avoid distractions. Gracefully handle yet another personnel reorganization.

Leaders and managers can do more than react. Armed with the right skills, they can create temporary groups—formal project teams, emergency response teams, ad hoc teams for initiatives—that are fundamentally more adaptable and resilient.

Teams NOW! Fast, Fluid, Functional enables you to address the immediate challenges of assembling and managing a temporary team—accelerating collaboration, ensuring cooperation and productivity and gaining commitment. Using proven techniques and tools, you’ll learn to triage the highest priority aspects of team performance and how to maximize the limited time you and your team have to get underway and work together effectively.

Benefits

This workshop enables participants to:

Reduce start-up time; kick-off to a faster, healthier start
Accelerate “join up”—help new members get on board with a team already underway
Develop and sustain “team esteem”
Promote Emotional Intelligence on your accelerated team
Manage performance when change is ongoing (from avalanche to shifting sands)
Proactively manage current and future team members to optimize performance, commitment, engagement
Employ communications practices that get results
Avoid the pitfalls of matrix management
Examine past team performance; apply results to future team design and composition

Who should attend:

Managers and Supervisors

Team Leads

Human Resources Professionals

Project managers

Project leads

Future supervisors and managers

Future leads

Continuing Education Credits: 1.65 PDUs (0.65 CEUs)

(PMI Members: Use Category 4 process for PDU credit)

Instructors: Susan de la Vergne and Chris Dennis

Course Content

Context, Taxonomy and Assessment
The reality of temporary teams—how modern teams are different than the textbooks
Assessment—Cohesion or Crisis: Where is your team now?
Root cause analysis: Looking behind the challenges
Triage: Front burner, middle burner, back burner concerns
Loyalty and trust in the workplace—Do they matter? What should you expect?
Exercise: Accelerating the Formation of Bonds

Team Goals
What makes temporary teams sail or fail?
Triage: Managing sudden change (changing players, changing process, changing of the guard)
Techniques: Exercise for improving cross-organizational understanding when team members come from different departments/areas of expertise
Communicating organizational change—no “damage control” afterwards
Updates that get action

Team Community
Tool: Team Basics, to accelerate the process of “getting to know you” and the culture
Addressing this: “I am an island on this team, and I don’t want to be”
Effective performance management for temporary team managers
Best practices: Matrix management—for team managers, line managers and team members
Getting past “They don’t work for me; I’m just an interim manager”
How to develop and promote a team’s shared reputation, and why you should
Escalating issues in a matrix management environment
Working through conflict between team members
Overcoming “I never know what they’re doing over there”

Emotional Intelligence on Teams
Understanding “Emotional Intelligence” (EI)
How EI applies to teams
Fostering EI on a temporary team—what to help develop when time is short

Team Process
Assembling a better team—What team leads and managers can do?
Best practices: How temporary team managers align forces
Communications that unite teams
“Flawless execution”—What’s its impact on teams?
Speaking to groups, making announcements
Triage: What’s most likely to happen on a temporary team?
Being ready—Anticipating reactions to change
Helping the team roll with change
Getting back on track quickly when change occurs

How’s It Going?
What are the indicators that tell you it’s working?
Applying lessons learned on your team next time
Applying lessons learned at an organizational level

Our Guarantee

If for any reason you are not satisfied, write to us within 30 days after attending the workshop and return the course materials and we'll arrange for you to receive a full refund - hassle-free!

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Dates and Locations:

June 5, 2008 - Kingstad Center, Beaverton, OR - 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Course Fee: $465 (Call for groups of five or more)

CEA Members: $395

Workshop fee includes continental breakfast, lunch, snacks, a comprehensive workbook, and email/phone follow-up with the instructors after the workshop to assist with implementation.

Class size is limited to 20 people. Please register early to guarantee enrollment.

Four easy ways to register:

Online: Groups and Individuals CEA Members (Continuing Education Alliance Program)

Phone

Toll free: 800-577-3528

or 503-293-3557

The best way to guarantee your enrollment when making a reservation is to pay with a credit card, or you can mail your payment before the workshop date. We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover cards.

Fax

Complete the Registration Form online, print, and fax to 503-293-8499

Mail

Complete the Registration Form online, print, and mail to:

Auxilium, Inc.

10260 SW Greenburg Rd.

Suite 400

Portland, OR 97223

Important Information

We begin at 9:00 AM sharp and wrap up at 5:00 PM

Check-in begins at 8:30 AM.

Parking

We do our best to find seminar facilities that provide plenty of free parking. However, some facilities have paid parking only. You may want to check with the facility personnel to determine parking fees and they can often direct you to free parking in the vicinity of the facility.

Tape recording

Our programs are fully copyrighted by Auxilium, Inc. No audio recording or videotaping, please.

Disclaimer

Course content, instructor and availability are subject to change without notice. We reserve the right to cancel a course for any reason. If we must cancel a course, liability is limited to a refund of the paid registration fee.

Cancellations and substitutions

Payment is required in advance but is refundable, less a $25 processing fee, if your cancellation is received 5 full business days before the course. If you fail to attend and do not notify us in advance, the fee is not refunded. Substitutes are welcome. Simply send the substitute on the day of the workshop and notify the instructor of the change on arrival.

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