Learn the key processes that teams use to do their tasks right the first time. Learn how these highly collaborative processes maximize ownership and commitment through high levels of participation.

The “Process Dimension” of teams is “how” a team does its tasks. Our 20 years of research into high performance teams at 3M and other excellent companies has identified the key processes that teams use to do their tasks right the first time while also building high levels of ownership and commitment among team members.

Teams must develop a process for every task they do. Even similar tasks may require a different process. Voting, for example, might be the right process for a simple and unimportant decision. A more complex and important decision will require an in-depth decision making process that develops a range of alternative and criteria for evaluating each criteria.

Using the wrong team process reduces results, creates false starts, and can damage team dynamics. A decision making process that is argumentative and dominated by a small in-group within a team, for example, is likely to come to the wrong decision and will most likely divide the team into two sub-groups. This damages team dynamics, reduces team productivity, and minimizes team member ownership and commitment to the results of the process.

Team processes must also be highly collaborative in order to maximize team member ownership and commitment through participation. Developing high levels of ownership and commitment creates the motivation needed for the team to fully implement its actions and maximize its results.

Learning Objectives:

1. How to run a collaborative and highly participative process for group discussion
2. How to run a collaborative and highly participative process for achieving consensus on team mission, goals, and strategies
3. How to run a collaborative and highly participative team meeting process
4. How to run highly collaborative team decision making, problem solving, and planning processes that maximize ownership and commitment to results

By the end of this webinar you will know “how” to build team member ownership and commitment through participation.

90 minutes (60 minute presentation, 30 minute open discussion)

Douglas Peters, President, DS Performance Group