TEAMING for Safety ‘X’-cellence”
How to Build an ‘X’-TEAM’ for Peak Safety Performance

The management gurus all agree…what’s needed in business today aren’t more ‘teams’ (i.e., committees, steering teams, & task groups), but more ‘TEAMING’, (people unified and motivated to achieve high performance results…including accident free operations! All to often, good safety programs (policy), fall victim to poor implementation (systems & practices) driven by internal competition, role confusion, conflicting goals, individual agendas, and ‘win –lose’ reward systems that sub-optimize performance. If these debilitating (yet all to common) problems exist in your organization, then “TEAMING for Safety ‘X’-cellence” is for you.

This (one day informational/two-day actionable) seminar explores the concept of ‘TEAMING’ – the full continuum of issues requisite to moving an organization from traditionally managed ‘work groups’’ to high performance collaborative ‘teamwork’. The program examines high performance teams, and engages participants in workshops, exercises, and assessments (personal and organizational), to identify opportunities for greater results through better ‘TEAMING’ for safety in their organizations.

The session starts with a ‘call for change’ (structure and practices) in how people are managed in today’s business process, and identifies opportunities to employ participative practices and high involvement systems to move employees from forced safety ‘responsibility’ to owned safety ‘Response Ability’. The many opportunities for ‘TEAMING’ in an organization are reviewed, as are the multiple benefits accrued by employees, employers, and business stakeholders. Participants explore the composition and characteristics of a high performance team, and complete an assessment to determine where their organization is positioned along the ‘TEAMING’ continuum. Exercises help participants identify the ‘C-Gap’ (Credibility) impeding teaming efforts, define the predominant ‘Leadership Vs Management’ orientation, evaluate communication effectiveness, and identify the current team member composition of their organizations.

With organizational ‘baselines’ established, the seminar then addresses the ‘HOW TO’ of effective ‘TEAMING’. “How to Build an ‘X’-Team for Peak Safety Performance” sequentially examines the six steps requisite to building a high performance Safety ‘X’-cellence’ organization:
 

I. CREATING an ‘X’-Team. – Explores:

• The 5 Cs - Characteristics of an effective ‘team player’.

• The seven (7) pitfalls to avoid in selecting team members.

• How to identify (and deal with) team players, team slayers and sideline spectators.

• The ten (10) communication practices critical to team performance.

• How to identify and overcome the biggest obstacle to teaming.
   

II. CONNECTING an ‘X’-Team – Explores:

• The ‘DNA’ of High Performance teams…the genetic make up of excellence.

• Clarifying ‘PURPOSE’ – Why do we do safety?

• The six (6) elements of an excellence vision.

• Why Values and Principles are critical to team success.
   

III. GUIDING an ‘X’-Team – Explores:

• The critical roles of Mission, Strategy & Goals.

• The seven (7) strategies of safety excellence.

• The five (5) types of goals for use in driving performance.
   

IV. LEADING an ‘X’-Team – Explores:

• The common denominator…and critical differences between ‘Leading Vs Managing’ for peak performance.

• Why Leadership and Values are important…but different.

• How to create an organizational Leadership Profile.

• The L2H ‘High Performance’ ‘Leader & Manager’ performance model.

• A leader’s ‘Locus of Control’ and its impact on performance.

• The ten (10) ‘Natural Laws of Leadership’.
   

V. MOTIVATING an ‘X’-Team – Explores:

• The five (5) Good Reasons for poor employee safety performance.

• Closing the ‘manager – employee’ motivation gap.

• How to leverage the power of ‘Intrinsic’ motivators.

• Safety Incentives…How to make them work.

• The ‘Dark Side’ of incentives…ten (10) issues to consider.
   

VI. REWARDING an ‘X’-Team – Explores:

• Why ‘Celebration’ is critical to team safety performance.

• Celebrating & Rewarding team performance with extrinsic motivators.

• The seven (7) questions to ask when designing an ‘R&R’ (Recognition & Rewards) program.
   

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

As a result of attending this seminar, participants will:

• Understand the concept of ‘TEAMING’, and why it is important in today’s business environment.

• Be able to differentiate a traditional ‘work group’ from a high performance ‘team’ and identify their organization’s positioning along the ‘TEAMING’ continuum.

• Be able to recognize and overcome the single greatest impediment to effective ‘TEAMING’ in an organization.

• Be able to facilitate the six step process for building an ‘X’-Team for peak safety performance in their organization.
   

THESE POPULAR SEMINARS vary in length from 2-hour sessions to 1½-day seminars.  All sessions can be customized to meet your specific content or duration needs.  Please phone me at (315) 383-3801 or e-mail me to discuss any title listed, or to collaborate on a specific requirement you have.