Teamwork Implementation Plans: Quick Start & Standard

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Teamwork Implementation Plan – Quick Start

Use our Quick Start Teamwork Implementation Plan as your guide for conducting your 1^st team-building workshop. It is essentially the first step in our Standand 3-workshop Plan. Do this and you will have started your Right-Minded Teamwork journey without having to study all 8 RMT books. 

Hi Dan. Just conducted your Work Agreement workshop. Went great, and passed the info along to other coaches I know. … they [now have] a wonderful common language and could follow your decision-making model to determine how best to handle similar situations in the future. Thanks for the material! Vickie Terrill – Team Coach

Quick Start Steps

1. Identify a teamwork issue that needs addressing, improving, or correcting.

2. In the 1^st workshop, all teammates …

• Discuss and define the issue and when everyone agrees on what the problem actually is [download The Problem Statement Exercise],
• Teammates discuss and agree on solutions that result in team Work AgreementsA Work Agreement is a collective teammate promise to transform non-productive, adversarial behavior into collaborative teamwork behavior.

3. After the workshop, all teammates actively live their team Work Agreements by

• Tracking progress
• Make needed adjustments along the way and then
• Measure the team’s improvement results

4. Repeat steps 1-3

• Conduct your 2^nd workshop
• Facilitate a team-building workshop every 2-3 months

Results

Your team will experience a boost in productivity and motivation from the first workshop alone which builds positive expectations for the second Right-Minded Teamwork workshop.

The Right-Minded Teamwork ® Implementation Plans are thoroughly presented in these three books:

1. Right-Minded Teamwork in Any Team: The Ultimate Team Building Method to Create a Team That Works as One.
2. Achieve Your Organization’s Strategic Plan: Create a Right-Minded Team Management SystemAn enterprise’s Team Management System (TMS) aligns all teammate attitudes and work behavior throughout the organization. to Ensure All Teams Work Together as One.
3. Design a Right-Minded Team-Building Workshop: 12 Steps to Create a Team That Works as One.

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Standard Implementation Plan

Orientation + Three Workshops + 90-Day Operating System

Standard Implementation Steps

There is no one right way to implement RMT. However, this plan has proven effective countless times. Combining orientation, three team-building workshops, and a 90-day Team Operating SystemRMT’s Team Operating System is a six-step, 90-day, continuous improvement system that organizes team functions to increase the likelihood of achieving customer satisfaction. will ensure you succeed in creating a team that works together as one. Here is a high-level view of the five steps or phases of RMT’s 5 Elements Implementation Plan:

1. Team Orientation Meeting & Workshop Preparation

• • The team leader & facilitator prepare for team orientation
  • Conduct a short orientation meeting and assign teammate preparation tasks

2. First Workshop – Work Agreements

• • Identify team psychological goalsA team’s psychological goals describe how teammates intentionally choose to think and behave as they work together to achieve their team’s business goals. and values (Element #2)
  • Create at least one team Work Agreement (Element #3)
  • Identify one to two improvement projects for the next 90 days

3. Second Workshop – Operating System

• • Reset and reaffirm business goals (Element #1) and agree on the Team Operating System (Element #4) by conducting a Team Performance Factor Assessment.

4. Third Workshop – Teammates

• • Conduct a Right-Minded Teammate development workshop (Element #5)

5. 90-Day Operating Plan – Ongoing

• • Every 90 days, another Team Performance Factor Assessment is conducted. The team meets to assess progress, identify opportunities, and then act to achieve new teamwork improvements.

Get Started

Download these implementation plans and get started creating Right-Minded Teamwork in your team, today!

Dan Hogan, Certified Master Facilitator