Conference Breakout Sessions Topics
Organizational Best Practices Conference: Achieving Results Through Teams
Breakout sessions topics will incude:
Army Teams, Army Strong
Best Practices in Teamwork
Building a Winning Team: It’s Not a Democratic Process
Building Successful Teams Through Emotional Intelligence
Building Teams Through Experiential Learning
The Collaborative Advantage of Teaming with the Competition
Driving Continuous Improvement Though Member Engagement
Effective Team and Leader Behavior in Cross-Functional Product Development Teams
Leadership Team Coaching at Caterpillar
Pella’s Journey to “Lean”: Engaging Small Teams on a Growth Journey
Team Management Through Process Based Leadership
Teams 101
Army Teams, Army Strong
Colonel Craig Cotter
Col Cotter’s presentation will contain a history, current workload, lean success (FRS/SECM), and the path ahead. Col Cotter is an extremely vivacious speaker who motivates and captivates the attention of all audiences. Development of integrated product teams (IPT)—aligned manufacturing and non-manufacturing personnel, dedicated personnel, enhanced communication; Reduce non-value added steps—satisfies customers needs by improving efficiency and effectiveness of operations; One piece flow, etc.—utilizes world class improvement practices and techniques to produce economical, high quality products, increased flexibility to meet changing requirements.
Best Practices in Teamwork
Randy Sergesketter
Reviewing best practices in teamwork at one of our John Deere units.
Learning objectives:
• Teams win championships
• Teamwork begins at the top
• Teamwork drives results
• Best practices in teamwork at John Deere
• Keys to successful teams
Building a Winning Team: It’s Not a Democratic Process
Linda Bowers
Having been widely influenced by scientific research in the areas of management, organizational growth cycles, and team-building, Linda will present her amalgamation of how to assemble winning teams. Winning teams are ones that: 1) understand and embrace the company’s ONE BIG goal; 2) write strategies to achieve the ONE BIG goal; 3) execute the strategies within given timelines of the ONE BIG goal; and 4) evaluate themselves against their strategies with no excuses for failure. In this session, Linda will talk about how her teams go beyond “forming, storming, norming, and performing” and put the WIC (What’s In it for the Customer) in everything we do that makes LinguiSystems number one in its industry in service, product quality, and professional trust.
Participants will be able to:
• Determine essential teams to serve their customers
• Set goals for their teams
• Establish desired outcomes for their teams
• Set standards for measuring team results
• Understand when to engage teams to achieve company goals
Building Successful Teams Through Emotional Intelligence
Dr. Vanessa Druskat
Technical competence and traditional analytical intelligence (IQ) are foundational for effective leadership. Still, a growing stream of research reveals that it is leader emotional intelligence (EI) that best predicts the performance of a leader’s team. This session introduces the concept of EI and shows how leaders use EI to build successful teams. The presentation provides concrete research-based answers to questions about what typically goes wrong in teams and how to address those problems. It also explains how to build an emotionally intelligent team that exceeds its performance potential by building trust, group identity, and relationships with stakeholders.
Learning objectives:
• To understand emotional intelligence and how it is related to team leadership success.
• To understand how emotional intelligence is related to team success.
• To learn ways to develop the emotional intelligence of leaders and teams.
Building Teams Through Experiential Learning
Dr.
Ron Wastyn
This workshop explores teaching team building through experiences. Participants get an overview of the basic structure of this week long class with a focus on the full day service project which teams perform near the end of the course. Our contention is that we can build a high performing team by having them work through exercises to build and reinforce team competencies. Masters level students who have taken the course will also be present to discuss their experiences.
The Collaborative Advantage of Teaming With the Competition
Greg Irmen
• Why do companies need partners and does this apply to the competition?
• Characteristics of collaborative partnerships advantages of collaborative partnerships
• Tools available to set up a partnership example of a collaborative partnership
• Keys to a successful collaborative partnership
• When/why to team
• Best practices of a successful partnership
• Understanding contractual tools for teaming
Driving Continuous Improvement Though Member Engagement
Tim Summers
Continuous improvement starts with an attitude but must be backed up with an environment that encourages and motivates the identification of waste, continual learning, a bias for action, and the ownership and accountability to accept the challenge that I can make a difference. It also must be supported by the knowledge and application of specific tools that when used properly will efficiently identify and eliminate waste. Tim will discuss his experiences, success and failures, in working with teams in just this type of environment.
Top learning objectives:
• Organization culture matters
• A framework for team engagement must exist
• There is no change without emotion.
Effective Team and Leader Behavior in Cross-Functional Product Development Teams
Dr. Vanessa Druskat
Cross-functional teams experience a very specific set of communication and integration challenges. I will present a multi-method study we conducted to identify what occurs inside the most talented and highest performing cross-functional teams in a Fortune 100 company. The findings include a set of specific behaviors and strategies used more times and in more situations by the top performing teams. They also suggest a preliminary road map of actions for team members, team leaders and also for upper level managers who want to increase the effectiveness of their cross-functional teams.
Learning objectives:
• To learn a set of behaviors that differentiate low from high performing cross-functional teams.
• To learn specific actions for developing those effective behaviors.
• To learn the challenges faced by cross-functional teams.
Leadership Team Coaching at Caterpillar
Dianna Anderson, Merrill Anderson, Bill Mayo
Many of the same coaching principles that deliver deep-seated change in individuals can be applied to leadership teams in order to attain higher levels of performance and engagement. Team coaching enables teams to create more effective ways of working together and translate strategy into action. The co-authors of Coaching that Counts and Bill Mayo, the former vice president of Caterpillar’s North American Commercial Division, present a case study of how team coaching engagement enhanced the performance of a leadership team, and contributed to culture change and higher levels of engagement for a Caterpillar business unit.
Participants will explore:
• The principles for successful team coaching
• How team coaching differs from other team-based interventions
• Options for customizing team coaching to meet the needs of teams
• How to weave individual and team development together to realize shared goals
Pella’s Journey to "Lean": Engaging Small Teams on a Growth Journey
Al Carlson
A look into Pella's 15 year journey with Kaizen teams in manufacturing, office and field settings throughout their company. Audience members will have a chance to simulate an abbreviated Kaizen business case study. The DRIVER program and how it is leading small Pella teams in the field to overcome “Barriers to Growth.
• Continuous Improvement is a Journey, not a Destination.
• Teams as a Strategic, Competitive Advantage
• Using Teams to Navigate "Whitewater"
Team Management Through Process Based Leadership
Seth Davies
In this interactive presentation, participants will receive a lively overview of the four key elements necessary to create and sustain a high performance team mentality and process throughout any organization. The presenter will focus strongly on the role of organizational leadership to create, emulate, communicate and reinforce the non-negotiable strategies necessary to sustain business success. This presentation will look at the real-world business challenges facing organizations today, as well as give participants a specific implementation methodology to begin practicing upon immediate return to the workplace. At the conclusion of this workshop participants will be able to: Drive business objectives down from the top-level management to the hourly employee. Establish expectations and auditing procedures to drive measurable results throughout the organizationDevelop a structured communication plan. Execute an action plan that directly impacts each echelon of the organization by holding people accountable for results within their realm of responsibility.
Teams 101
Janet Sichterman and Joe Froehlich
There have been many things written about developing teams to the next level of performance, but what if you are just getting started on working with teams? This workshop will begin with team basics, things to consider when starting a team and some ideas you can implement right away. Even if you are currently involved in a team, you might want to revisit some of the foundational pieces that help teams function more effectively to achieve their goals. This workshop is led by two seasoned human resource leaders that will share their stories and experiences to illustrate the key points.
In this workshop you will:
• Review and discuss the types of teams that are used in an organization
• Learn the basic building blocks needed for any team to achieve its goal
• Learn and discuss how interpersonal relationships can influence team outcomes
• Discuss some simple models to use when dealing with team conflict
• Learn how to get started from day one
• Develop new team building activities and skills
• Understand the importance of team diversity
• Hear from your colleagues on their ideas for starting up teams successfully
For More Information
Contact Allison Ambrose, 563/333-6155