Building Conscious Teams

Building Conscious Teams:
Structures & processes that create an effective team

a six-hour live interactive Instructor-Led Workshop
part of the Conscious Leader Development programs at Basileia LLC

"When the best leader's work is done, the people say
'We did it ourselves.'"

—Lao Tzu

The primary goal of a Conscious Leader is to build a Conscious Team that is cohesive and effective.

Conscious Teams are identified by:
(a) the high-level of autonomy of the team itself and of its members,
(b) clear structures of intrinsic motivation that guide choices and behaviors, and
(c) ongoing feedback and mutual accountability.

In this course, participants will learn how to:

ignite intrinsic motivation within your team
build cohesion and unity
define roles that are both clear and inspiring
supervise through trust and accountability
ensure robust communication within your team
make on-going decisions to build the team of people that you need
match people into the roles that reflect their strengths and competence
ensure team members are moving towards personal excellence and effectiveness

Session Outlines

Session 1: Ignite Intrinsic Motivation: Inspire the way forward in alignment with Shared Purpose & Core Values - What matters to us?
- Vision the team's purpose in light of the organization's shared purpose
- Where are we going as a team? What will be different in 2 years? ... in 1 year? ... in 3 months?
- Interpret the Core Values in terms of behaviors on the team
- Ignite intrinsic motivation
- Support people in the transition toward the desired change ... what's the purpose?, what's the picture?, what's the plan?, what's my part?
Session 2: Building Cohesion: Give your team voice to own the present and co-create the desired future
- Create structures for feedback and cohesion
- Acknowledge and embrace the current reality ... seek clarity, not blame
- Invite & value feedback from all stakeholders
- Engage team in understanding challenges, prioritizing attention, and choosing next steps
- Create clear responsibility and accountability in taking action
Session 3: Conscious Roles: Define how each person's part contributes to the success of the whole team
- Roles are not a list of tasks
- Craft role descriptions for clarity and inspiration
- Identify competencies needed
- Aim - what tangible service or product do I provide for the organization
- Domain - what decisions am I responsible to make
- Guidelines - what guides my decisions and actions
- Measurements - how do you know I am fulfilling my role
- Ensure open sharing and understanding of roles within the team
Session 4: Conscious Supervision: Presence, Seeing, Listening, Coaching, Support
- Supervision is being present and bringing presence
- See and hear your staff - activating trust
- Lead with integrity - what you say and what you do are aligned
- Lead by doing - be a role model for how you want staff to show up
- Lead by coaching - support them to get the clarity they need to make their own choices
- Activate a culture of mutual accountability that calls people into alignment
Session 5: Conscious Communication: Create the structures and processes to facilitate communication, collaboration & connection
- Define the essential meetings we need
- Design meetings to fulfill their purpose and objectives
- Facilitate meetings for engagement and inclusion
- Use technology systems to enhance communication, e.g. phone and video calls, messaging, emails, documents
Session 6: The People on the Team: The proactive, on-going process of developing and sustaining an effective and cohesive team
- Hiring - let the team members evaluate how the candidate performs the real tasks of the job
- Onboarding - ensure a supportive experience in the first day, first week, first month
- Growth & Development - every person needs a development plan
- Termination - acknowledge and take action when the person is clearly not fulfilling the role

Recommended Preparation

Co-Requisites / Next Steps

Hear Me! ... See Me!: Valuing the people in your workplace ... and in your life (a 3-hour workshop)
Conscious Accountability: Effective feedback & accountability without blame (a 6-hour workshop)
Conscious Communication: Embracing Uncomfortable Conversations (a 6-hour workshop)

Workshop Format
This workshop is an interactive, activity-based experience where participants are invited to learn through self-reflection, interactions in pairs or small groups, and engagement with the whole group. Workshops combine innovative, interactive strategies with essential principles of leadership and communication to create a robust learning experience.

Delivery of this interactive workshop may either be as a live on-site event or a live video technology event — or a combination of both, depending on your needs.

Dedicated workshops can be customized and scheduled to meet the unique needs of your organization. Contact us to schedule or for group rates.

Open-enrollment workshops are listed below.

Upcoming Open-Enrollment Dates

Live Interactive Workshop via Video Technology

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All sessions are from 12:45 - 2:00 pm U.S. Eastern Time
9:45-11:00am U.S. Pacific Time
6:45-8:00pm Central Europe Time

Each of these live, interactive, 75-minute sessions via video technology will be facilitated by Gregg Kendrick.

Class size is limited to 12.

Note that sessions will be recorded upon request in case you miss a session or want to review it. Also, you may attend any future sessions of this series, on a space available basis, at no additional cost, for a period of 12 months after your first session.

Fee

Series of six sessions: US $450 per person
Group discounts for multiple enrollments in the same workshop:
- first 2 enrolled: no discount
- next 2 enrolled: 25% discount
- next 4 enrolled: 50% discount
- next 4 enrolled: 75% discount

Payment of Fee

By Check. Mail a check to Basileia LLC, P.O. Box 224, Charlottesville, VA 22902
By Credit Card. Use this link to make a payment: paypal.me/basileiallc/450

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Upcoming Sessions!

"Building Conscious Teams"
Interactive workshop series via live video technology — six 75-min sessions

no public sessions currently scheduled - contact us to schedule your group or team

12:45 - 2:00 pm U.S. Eastern Time
9:45-11:00 am U.S. Pacific Time
6:45-8:00 pm Central Europe Time

Schedule a workshop for your team!

If you would like to schedule a dedicated workshop for your team, or you would like to discuss group rates, please contact us.