GO TEAM REPRODUCIBLE LIBRARY
Powering Team Performance
David Hutchens & Susan Gerke
Go create. Go collaborate. Go innovate.
Whether you are a leader within an organization or a facilitator who serves multiple clients, GO Team® equips you with powerful learning opportunities on a broad range of team-related topics. It doesn't matter what kind of organization you work with. Whether you are part of a Fortune 100 global corporation, a small school board, or a local government agency, GO Team® will equip any intact team held accountable to a common purpose.
GO Team: Complete Reproducible Library
18 team-focused topics (or modules), divided into three levels
GO Team® is an 18-module team-training resource that supports all kinds of teams, including brand new teams as well as teams that have been together for a while. It's a just in time training resource, which means that you select the module that is most urgent to the team, right now.
The complete GO Team library allows you to use any of the 18 powerful and flexible learning modules whenever your team needs them. Using a range of learning approaches that supports all kinds of teams, teams are constantly engaged, constantly challenged, and always developing towards higher performance. The GO Team Library is your Swiss army knife of team development.
With all 18 easy-to-deliver modules included, the complete GO Team library allows you to meet to your teams' exact needs. Delivered to you in a fully reproducible pdf file, each GO Team module includes the facilitator guide, ""fast start"" podcast, and participant guide so you will have the team training you need. A Facilitator Playbook with facilitating tips is also included in the complete GO Team library.
GO Team is a library of 18 team-focused topics (or modules), divided into three levels.
- Level 1: Setup for Success.
These are the fundamentals of teamwork. But don't assume these are for "beginner" teams! Many experienced teams find that they have never worked through these important teambuilding blocks. ("Oh, so maybe that's why we've been struggling...!")
Module 1: Getting Grounded in Team Basics
Module 2: Creating Team Operating Guidelines
Module 3: Establishing Team Purpose & Goals
Module 4: Clarifying Team Roles
Module 5: Building on Style Differences
Module 6: Assessing the Team
- Level 2: Go Team!
Some issues just seem to pop up every day in the work with the team. These are the core topics that come with the territory.
Module 7: Enhancing Team Communication
Module 8: Running Effective Team Meetings
Module 9: Making Team Decisions
Module 10: Avoiding Groupthink
Module 11: Resolving Team Conflict
Module 12: Solving Team Issues
- Level 3: See You at the Top.
Ready for high performance? These topics aren't only for mature teams; they're for any team that wishes to unleash the "group genius" that is a unique product of teams.
Module 13: Building Team Trust
Module 14: Giving & Receiving Feedback
Module 15: Sharing Leadership
Module 16: Sparking Team Creativity
Module 17: Managing Change
Module 18: Leveraging Team Learning
Each module of GO Team takes between two and four hours to complete, and requires very little setup. Don't have a training room? No worries. Have the team take a long lunch in the break room and work through a module of GO Team together! There are no PowerPoints, and no lectures. All of the learning is active, dialogue based, and driven by the members of the team.
GO Team for Leaders: Complete Reproducible Team Leader Library
Introducing GO Team for Leaders - Includes 7 GO Team for Leaders Modules.
GO Team® for Leaders is built on the same great content as the GO Team® Library. Delivered to you in a fully reproducible pdf file, each of the 7 modules in the GO Team® for Leaders line includes the facilitator guide and participant guide so you will have leader training you need, whenever you need it. There is no "correct" sequence to the modules so you can choose the topics right for your team, build your own training agenda, and print and facilitate whenever you need it!
GO TEAM LEADER MODULE 1: GETTING GROUNDED IN TEAM BASICS
In this module, leaders will be able to identify the characteristics of the best teams by exploring types of teams and the different stages that teams experience.
GO TEAM LEADER MODULE 2: BUILDING ON STYLE DIFFERENCES
Based on the powerful work of Dr. Linda Berens, team leaders will explore their naturally preferred styles of interacting with others and develop an understanding and appreciation of the different styles of others. With this knowledge, leaders will be able to make changes to the ways they work within the team so that they can benefit from the individual styles of each member.
GO TEAM LEADER MODULE 3: ENHANCING TEAM COMMUNICATION
Many times the expectation is that communication will 'just happen', but in a team communication must be a purposeful activity. In this module, team leaders will explore the disciplines of advocacy and inquiry to create conversations that can transform communication into more than just transferring information. Conversations become a source of learning, innovation and transformation.
GO TEAM LEADER MODULE 4: RUNNING EFFECTIVE TEAM MEETINGS
Meetings are one of the primary processes of working within a team, yet ineffective meetings occur all too often. Team leaders can help make meetings into a powerful opportunity for getting real work done, by utilizing the tools from this module. With the GO Team® meeting planning tool participants can keep meetings on task and on time, as well as assess the effectiveness of the meeting.
GO TEAM LEADER MODULE 5: AVOIDING GROUPTHINK
Is there a dark side of a well-functioning team? There can be. While a cohesive team may sound like an ideal group, your team may be vulnerable to groupthink. Determine the vulnerability of your team to group think and develop a plan to ensure that groupthink is not a danger in your team.
GO TEAM LEADER MODULE 6: SPARKING TEAM CREATIVITY
Your team is full of creative people. Don't believe it? Then work through this module as a team. You'll discover that creativity is not a magical thing reserved for a gifted few. Instead, it's a discipline and a process that any team can exercise at any time. Next time the team needs to generate new opportunities and new ways of thinking, make this module a part of the work agenda. You won't believe the creative brilliance that you produce!
Your team will:
- Explore a disciplined process for exercising creative thinking (even if members don’t consider themselves "creative!")
- Consider the different roles and individual strengths that different team members bring to the creative process.
- Work through a four-part model that leads team members through the creative process – from defining an opportunity, to brainstorming creative solutions, to making plans for building the idea, and ultimately to ensuring its effective implementation
GO TEAM LEADER MODULE 7: MANAGING CHANGE
Your team will experience change. Change is complex and some changes are more significant than others. It's time to get past the discomfort of change and begin embracing change as an opportunity for growth, innovation and performance. Using the road map to change participants will explore, analyse and identify change, then create a plan of action for navigating effectively through the change.
