Cultivate excellence in cross-functional team management through a manager, team, and corporate awareness.
Every day, businesses assemble cross-functional teams, directing the company’s best resources at a problem or project; and yet statistics show initiatives and projects fail most of the time. Conversely, there are many instances where insufficient resources are gathered to address complex issues, or company talent is gathered for inane projects and meetings that disengage top performers. This presentation will help cultivate excellence in cross-functional team management through a manager, team, and corporate awareness of the unique opportunity of the collective team capability, the context, and the importance of the work they will design and execute. Managers will learn to appreciate the opportunity that is cross-functional team management, and how to engage high-level resources and subject matter experts. With team and corporate appreciation of the importance of the team, and the work they will put their hands to do, managers can realize excellence in cross-functional team management and achieve step-ahead outcomes.
Learning Objectives
- You will be able to describe the business context of cross-functional team leadership and the potential impact for you and the organization.
- You will be able to recognize when a cross-functional team is needed, and when it is not.
- You will be able to discuss why and how to treat cross-functional team members as stakeholders.
- You will be able to explain the importance of vision in managing a cross-functional team.
Agenda
What Is the Business Context of a Cross-Functional Team?
- Welcome, Introduction to Me and Topic With Statistics
- Definition
- What Is It Part of?
- What Is Not Cross-Functional Team Management?
- Team Leader Impact
When to Form a Cross-Functional Team
- Increase Capability to Meet/Exceed Problem Complexity
- Comparison of Environmental Conditions for Team vs. Cross-Functional Team
- Options for Blended Teams, or Limited Cross-Functional Participation
Team Members as Stakeholders
- Critical Stakeholders, High Functioning, Even Sme Resources, With Multiple Priorities
- Good Resource Utilization
- Authority and Autonomy
Create a Vision
- Why You Need a Vision
- The Faerie-Tale Appeal of Vision
- Example Approaches to Developing a Vision
- Rich Picture
- Appreciative Inquiry
- Boundary Judgements
- Binary Descriptors
Q&A and Close
Speakers
Lori Fisher,
PLS Management Consulting, Ltd- President/Owner PLS Management Consulting, an operations consulting, training, and coaching firm
- 25 years of operations leadership in biotechnology, aerospace, steel tool, and steel industries; successfully led cross-functional teams with budgets exceeding $5M, with recent work with Ugandan non-governmental organization, YAREN Organization, Inc.
- Board of Directors, Portage County Human Resources Association (PCHRA)
- Creator of engagement, collaboration, and leadership training courses, author of several blogs on employee engagement, collaboration, systems thinking, and operations management; series of articles entitled Philosophers A to Z highlighting the impact of philosophy and knowledge on today’s operations management
- BS Chemistry, Kent State University; Executive Management Certificate, Cranfield University, UK; Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) and Wicked Problem Solving Practitioner Certification, Cabrera Research Labs Certified Trainer in Systems Thinking, Leadership, and Mapping
Who Should Attend
This live webinar is designed for supervisors, team leaders, business owners and managers, accountants, and human resource managers.
