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Getting Change Right through High-Performance Teams

A FREE Live 3-part Teleseminar Series

Join the experts

Steve Denning & Seth Kahan

Monday June 29, 2009 at 11 am US EST
Tuesday July 7, 2009 at 11 am US EST
Thursday July 23, 2009 11 am US EST

SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY: This series will be made available

at a package cost of US$199 for the series of 3,

but this is your unique opportunity to participate for FREE.

How to Participate:

Pre-register here

Free participation limited to the first 50 callers

Agenda: June 29

1. Getting the right change: Focus on delighting clients and stakeholders

2. Communicating so that people get it and spread it

3. Identifying and convening most valuable players

Agenda: July 7

4. Understanding the territory

5. Accelerating evolution through communities

6. High-performance teams:Doing work through self-organizing teams that evolve into high-performance teams

  • Iterative work processes
  • Getting work "done-done"


Agenda: July 23

7. Radical transparency

  • Within the team
  • Vis-a-vis management
  • Vis-a-vis stakeholders

8. Relentless self improvement: creating a setting in which the team drives its own improvement

9. Blowing through bottlenecks
10. Creating dramatic surges
11. Keeping focus


The sad truth is that most change programs fail. In this teleseminar series, you will learn why and what you can do to launch high-performance teams and change programs that really work.

WHY PARTICIPATE IN THIS TELESEMINAR SERIES?

  • Master the elements that create and sustain high-performance teams, i.e. project teams that are both exceptionally productive and deeply satisfying to the participants.
  • Learn how to generate highly productive teams that hum with excitement and buzz with energy and enthusiasm.
  • Get hands-on practice in creating high-performance teams, including calculation of the project team’s velocity and focus factor.
  • Getting change right requires engaging people, garnering their enthusiastic participation to overcome the inevitable obstacles on the road to success.
  • When leaders get change right, it happens quickly. Contrary to popular thought, people move rapidly if they can make a positive difference fast.
  • Getting change right requires drawing on every person involved as a valid, unique perspective, a distinct constellation of experience and knowhow.

WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE?

  • Managers who want to create and sustain high-performance teams
  • Senior managers who want to create a high-performance organization, comprised of high-performance teams
  • Leaders and managers who want to get change right
  • Visionaries of all stripes, anyone who knows there is a better way and is serious about making it happen fast.
  • Lawyers, who want to ignite high-performance in their legal teams
  • Consultants, who want to delight clients with high-performance teams
  • Managers who want to create a more productive workplace.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS TELSEMINAR SERIES?

  • Run a successful change initiative for any size program, large or small.
  • Identify and enthusiastically engage the most important people in your project.
  • Break through bottlenecks and bad circumstances including poor leadership, change weariness, and apathy.
  • Master the elements that create and sustain high-performance teams, i.e. project teams that are both exceptionally productive and deeply satisfying to the participants.
  • Learn how to generate highly productive teams that hum with excitement and buzz with energy and enthusiasm
  • Inspire your organization to adopt a culture of high-performance
  • Pursue relentless improvement in the way the work is done
  • Generate and win support for radical transparency
  • Continuously focus effort on the 20% of items that generate 80% of the benefits
  • Engage in real conversations with customers and clients
WANT TO LEARN MORE?

This teleseminar series is a preview of the two-day Masterclass that Steve Denning and Seth Kahan will be holding in in Washington DC on July 30-31. For more details of this event, go here.

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