Proven 2-day workshop intensive for developing shared leadership, shared responsibility, and self-organizing.

Most professionals don’t realize there is a legitimate science and repeatable technique for building and leading teams. There is. Christopher Avery has been defining, applying, and teaching it for over 20 years as documented in Teamwork Is An Individual Skill: Getting Your Work Done When Sharing Responsibility.

This workshop intensive is designed for you to…

1. Know exactly how teams naturally come together and how they don’t;

2. Apply The Responsibility Process® to take ownership for being on great teams;

3. Add the shared responsibility, shared leadership perspective to your skillset;

4. Learn a 5-step team orientation process proven to give a group the best chance of becoming a team;

5. Apply 1 through 4 during the workshop to experience being on a great team of your own; and

6. Leave with the confidence you can apply this material the next day.

Other Learning Goals

  • Discover why team member motivation is more critical to team success than technical skill and expertise so you can master peer motivation
  • Create contexts that drive healthy team dynamics of trust, respect for individuals, along with goodwill and cooperation
  • Employ steps for cleaning up broken agreements and relationship mistakes so you can get back on track quickly without losing trust
  • Internalize formulas for breaking through conflict so you can remain calm and focused when facing the heat, turning conflict into breakthrough over and over again for higher levels of team performance

What you receive

  • 2 full days of intensive hands-on proven-on-the-front-lines-of-leadership skill-building.
    We’ll study from 8:30am to 8:30pm the first day (yes, 8:30pm) and 8:30am to 5pm the second
  • A practical “lab” experience. The non-optional lab from 5pm until 8:30pm on Day 1 is a self-organizing group study session you can accomplish over dinner with others. This unique lab is how you integrate and demonstrate your new insights about team leadership — immediate application followed by debrief the next day
  • A valuable participant manual for your taking. Many graduates report referencing theirs for years afterwards
  • Certificate of Completion for 20 classroom hours. Participants who fully engage in the entire intensive from beginning to end will receive a certificate for 20 (not 16) hours you can use to claim PDU’s or continuing education credits from your professional association.
  • Leadership skills based on what works naturally (called “is”-based) as opposed to “should”-based models requiring everyone to read the same book or attend the same training

 

Christopher Avery

You might agree that taking personal responsibility is the rst principle of success, but un l now, experts could not tell you how to take responsibility - only that you should be responsible. That’s not enough and not very helpful. Christopher Avery has studied responsibility within organiza ons - what it is, what it isn’t, and how high performing individuals, teams, and business cultures leverage responsibility to create impact. The output of his research, his work, and his passion is the rst how-to approach for taking and teaching personal responsibility, something that he has shared with audiences all around the world. Christopher appreciates, and shares with audiences, that how we choose to experience responsibility is a moment-to-moment personal choice and not about tle, tenure, or posi on. These rich discoveries are changing how people live more ful lling lives, how leaders lead, how teams get built, and how coaches and parents teach and inspire personal responsibility.

Christopher uses the real-life experiences of his audience to highlight the importance of personal responsibility and to provide prac cal sugges ons and ideas that listeners can put to immediate use, and with immediate e ect.

His fusion of real-life stories and his conversa onal techniques connect with his audience at an in mate, intense and individual level.

Christopher has inspired and entertained audiences at hundreds of events around the world, keyno ng important conferences with inspiring lessons about leadership, responsibility, and crea ng sustainable change inside organiza ons. His successes include: GAP, Wells Fargo, DTE, Rally So ware and eBay, to name a few.