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Getting to Common Understanding and Goals
As a group, brainstorm and capture 3 or so Skills and Best Practices that help teams get to a common understanding and develop and agree to shared goals.
What Makes this Difficult?
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Setting Direction (or driving change) from a non-leadership position
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Skill | Why is it important | Example |
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Persuasion | Need to convince people to adopt the direction. | Quality presentations. |
Presentation | Develop public speaking. Has logic and order and which supports the argument | Quality presentations. |
Facilitation | Builds consensus and provides transparency. Build multiple viewpoints into a recommendation | Strategic thinking exercise. Brainstorming exercises. |
Meeting Planning | Develop a goal for the session | Well structured agenda with outcomes (learning outcome, relationship building) |
Consensus Building | Senior leaders appreciate when there is consensus to work with. | |
Best Practice | Why is important | Example |
Cross departmental proposal development | Helps the organization be less reactionary | Leveraging each department upon their strengths without duplication |
Being open to outcomes and attempt to be neutral actor | The university benefits | Adoption of a single CRM |
Consistency and persistency | Respect is often earned by demonstrating a commitment to the domain in regard to steady investment in a domain. | Stay engaged in a topic area through relationships even if not actively engaged in specific work year over year. |
Working the hierarchy both vertically and horizontally | It is important to break down departmental silos in order to optimize opportunities and essential to validate that those outcomes are in alignment with the hierarchy. | Validate that the engagements you will have are worthwhile to senior leaders and report back results and outcomes of those engagements. |
Creating impactful artifacts
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artifacts
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