Facilitator
Description
“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder; leadership is working out if the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
Steven Covey
“It’s hard to remember you’re here to drain the swamp, when you’re up to your %$#@ in alligators.”
Anonymous
Most leadership teams prioritise taking time out of the ‘doing’, to reflect on what’s working, what’s not, and what they can do about it. Time spent doing so leads to breakthrough ideas, game changing strategies and incremental improvements to the existing core business.
Functional teams rarely (if ever) get this opportunity - to step back for a day and critically review their own effectiveness. More often than not, they’re too caught up in the busyness of doing things ‘the way we’ve always done them’.
Suitable for intact, functional teams at all levels, this tight, pragmatic one-day workshop, supports teams to collaborate on identifying what it will take to move from good to great, from efficient (doing things right) to effective (doing the right things), and create plans to make this happen.
Learning Outcomes
Participation in this workshop will support your team to:
- understand the organisation’s strategic context and how the team’s outcomes align to it
- develop a vision to define what ‘great’ looks like for the team
- review the status quo, understand the key collective accountabilities for the team - what they are, and why each one matters
- review and remove redundant and low-value activities, address legacy issues and ‘orphan’ tasks, automate or streamline with AI those activities that add the least value
- get out of the weeds and refocus on those activities that are both operationally necessary and strategically valuable - what, how, when
- ensure the capabilities, resourcing and structure of the team are appropriate to the needs they have identified
- distil the outcomes of the day into an actionable plan, with assigned accountabilities - who will do what by when.
Content
- Strategy overview (presented by the General Manager for the team’s department)
- Up in the helicopter - team visioning exercise
- Reviewing the team's current key accountabilities
- Critical review of current team effectiveness
- Refocusing time, energy and resources away from activities that are not strategically aligned or have a low ROI
- Moving from 'reactive' to 'proactive' using the Pareto principle
- Aligning systems, processes and people to maximise the team's effectiveness
- Prioritising outcomes for the greatest bottom-line impact
- Planning for implementation - creating a ‘plan on a page’