Don't Mistake Presence for Performance

Don’t Mistake Presence for Performance.

Discover How Effective Leaders Manage Remote and Hybrid Work Environments.

By David Town

The new reality of having to manage remote teams accelerated the imperative for examining the effectiveness of “traditional” leadership approaches. Don’t Mistake Presence for Performance delves into eye-opening research that challenges the assumptions of leaders who believe that the only place workers can be productive is in a common workspace.

Leaders want to avoid falling into the trap of settling for mediocre results. They can increase their effectiveness by changing their approach and applying the appropriate mindset shift and leadership skills. By fully embracing the concepts and practices outlined in this book, they will maximize their leadership effectiveness. With the proliferation of remote work and hybrid working environments, the forward-thinking leadership approaches outlined in this book will enable leaders to confidently manage any work environment.

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Building a Team Value Statement

This session focuses on helping team members work through a list of questions to identify and confirm the value that the team adds to the organization.  A Team Value Statement is developed that represents a common understanding of the mandate that can be shared with stakeholders.  The development of a clear articulation of the team’s goals and objectives enables the team to more clearly share their purpose with other teams and provides a valuable onboarding tool for new members of the team.

The key benefit of this session is that both the individual and the team understand the common purpose (goals and priorities) of the team.

2 hours

Assessment of Team Alignment

This session focuses on completing an assessment questionnaire to determine the level of alignment that individual team members have against the overall purpose (goals & objectives) of the team.  The key benefit of this session is gaining a clear understanding of where team members are and are not aligned so that team communications can address the alignment gaps.

1 hour

Planning and Facilitation of Productive Meetings

This session focuses on having participants learn a variety of techniques that are used in the planning and facilitation of virtual meetings.  The participants are given the opportunity to engage in exercises where they focus on how to apply the techniques learned.   The key benefit of this session is at that participants are able to facilitate virtual meetings more effectively.

2 hours

Team Empowerment & Delegation Practices

This session focuses on the concept of empowerment and learning best practices in both what to delegate and how to delegate to be a more effective virtual leader. Participants are able to share their most challenging delegation barriers in order to discuss strategies on how to overcome their specific barriers. The key benefit of this session is that leaders learn how to empower others and learn key techniques for overcoming their own unique delegation barriers.

3 hours

Confirming Team Roles using RACI

This session focuses on the application of the RACI model to a project team or to the key accountabilities of a department.  RACI enables a team to identify who should be Responsible, Accountable, Consulted and Informed with respect to the key tasks/accountabilities that team must accomplish in order to meet the goals and objectives of the project or team.  The key benefit of this session is the dialogue that is created when going through the process of assigning RACI and the overall clarity that results from a co-created agreement of how each team member is involved in the achievement of the team or project objectives.

2 hours

Assessing Team Interactions

This session focuses on having team members work through an exercise where they identify how they interact with other teams in the organization.  It helps teams understand their role in the overall process of delivering value to the customer/client and how they can increase the effectiveness of their interactions with other teams.  The key benefit of this session is the clarity it provides regarding how teams interact with each other to make the organization’s operating processes more effective and more efficient.

3 hours