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Maximizing Team Productivity: The Power of Liftoff

Transform your team's performance by starting right with the Liftoff Program. Bring cohesion to your team from day one and create a collaborative culture grounded in high-performance and value-based principles.

Gain a competitive edge by becoming a subject matter expert in Liftoff Program facilitation. Build a customized guide for future Liftoffs in your organization, and share your experiences with other participants.

The Benefits of Liftoff for Organizations

The Liftoff process is critical because it helps a team establish a shared alignment on the goals; working toward a common vision. This ensures that everyone is on the same page from the start and sets a strong foundation for success.

New Mindset: Shift your organization's perspective away from a slide-deck, one-hour kickoffs to a more cohesive, value-based Liftoff.
Immediate Impact: Liftoff helps teams maximize productivity and cohesiveness from day one, improving overall team efficiency.
Organizational Alignment - Define purpose, alignment, and context while promoting the value in team collaboration through Liftoffs.
Organizational Growth: Promote organizational success with purposeful, value-based strategies and improvements in team culture resulting from using Liftoffs.
Facilitation and Coordination: While learning how to facilitate Liftoff, participants create their own step-by-step guide and customizable white board template.

Who Should Attend the Program?

Team leads, project/program managers, product managers, coaches who want to change the dynamic of how programs, products, and services are jump-started so they can build cohesion from Day 1.

Bring an entire new or established team together for team building to work on higher performance and collaboration through new ways of working.

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Learning Objectives:

In this program, you'll learn how to facilitate a successful Liftoff for your organization. You'll gain valuable insights into the three critical phases of a Liftoff and the facilitation techniques that work best in each stage. By the end, you'll be equipped with the tools necessary to lead your team towards a shared vision and purpose.

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Understand the 3 critical phases of a Liftoff and why they are important:

Identify the purpose and goals of a Liftoff and its significance in setting the direction for the organization.
Recognize the importance of Purpose, the initial phase, where the team comes together and establishes a common understanding of the purpose and desired outcomes.
Understand that who they are as individuals contributes to the whole value system and ways of working for the team during Alignment.
Comprehend the importance of the boundaries and interactions outside the team and how far the team can excel as part of Context.

Learn facilitation techniques for working with Liftoff groups:

Acquire facilitation skills to guide group discussions, encourage participation, and foster collaboration.
Develop techniques for active listening, summarizing key points, and managing diverse perspectives during the Liftoff process.
Learn how to create a safe and inclusive environment that promotes open communication and trust among team members.
Explore methods for conflict resolution and consensus-building within the Liftoff group

Design a liftoff facilitation guide and materials:

Learn how to create a comprehensive facilitation guide that outlines the purpose, structure, and activities of each Liftoff phase.
Develop materials such as templates, worksheets, and visual aids to support the Liftoff process.
Understand the importance of adapting facilitation techniques and materials to suit the specific needs and context of your organization.

Develop techniques to aid an organization in defining their Purpose with a clear vision, mission, and mission tests:

Learn methods to help organizations clarify their purpose, define a compelling vision, and articulate a mission statement.
Explore techniques for crafting mission tests that align with the organization's values and goals, enabling effective decision-making.

Prepare Alignment activities to help the team create the definition of who they are, what their value system is, and how they want to work together:

Gain knowledge of alignment activities that foster a shared understanding of the team's identity, values, and desired ways of working.
Learn how to facilitate discussions and exercises that promote team cohesion, trust, and collaboration.
Understand the importance of aligning individual and team values to ensure a cohesive and purpose-driven approach.

Create Context facilitation practices that allow the team to think beyond the now into what is possible for their vision:

Develop facilitation techniques to help teams explore future possibilities and think strategically about their vision.
Learn how to encourage creative thinking, generate innovative ideas, and challenge limiting beliefs within the team.
Understand the role of context-setting activities in expanding the team's perspective and inspiring them to pursue ambitious goals.

Set the stage for continuous improvement as the team moves forward:

Learn how to create a culture of continuous improvement within the team by fostering a growth mindset.
Understand the importance of establishing feedback loops, regular reflection, and learning opportunities to support ongoing development.
Develop techniques for identifying areas of improvement, setting actionable goals, and tracking progress towards the team's vision and objectives.

Sample Online Schedule:

You will have self-study work to do in advance of the program to prepare yourself with the basics of Liftoff. We will then be conducting a Liftoff together the first week of January as follows:

Tues - Thursday (3 days)
17:00 - 20:00 Central European
16:00 - 19:00 British Time/Western European
11:00 - 14:00 Eastern US
8:00 - 11:00 Pacific US

We will then meet weekly for 5 weeks to build out your Liftoff facilitation skills and toolkit. There will be work to be done between sessions by each participant.
17:00 - 19:00 Central European
16:00 - 18:00 British Time/Western European
11:00 - 13:00 Eastern US
8:00 - 10:00 Pacific US

All virtual classes held online with Google Meet. We ask that you be available with camera and microphone unless there are extenuating circumstances. All work will be conducted using our online learning portal.

Meet Your Coaches:

Photo of Indra Books Indra A. Books

With 25 years of experience, Indra has a passion for working with organizations to effect meaningful, goal-oriented change resulting in high-performing and inclusive team culture. Indra is regularly invited to lead workshops and talks, to shift the focus from process to culture, people, and mindset; creating change that is focused on long-term investments.

Photo of Kofi Blankson Kofi Blankson

Kofi is a Certified Scrum Master and Agile Leader as well a s digital technology enthusiast with 12 years experience in the Financial Services industry. His expertise spans Operations, Service Experiences and Reengineering, Management Information Systems, and Program and Change Management. He is dedicated to creating new ways of working in Ghana.

Still not sure if this is right for you?

Schedule a FREE Strategy Call with our CEO, Indra A. Books, to talk through how we may help.

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Pricing and Registration:

This program without additional customization is 2499 Euros per person (minimum 10 people). We offer pricing in Euros, USD, and GBP. You are responsible for any charges accrued for your choice of currency. We are unable at this time to offer other currencies. Payment is by credit card or invoice. Invoices can be issued in all three currencies. Full payment must be received 30 days prior to the event. The full names and email addresses of the attendees must be sent via email upon payment for invoiced registrations.

Please read all program details before registering and send us an email if you have any questions. Once you register and pay, each attendee will be asked to complete a more detailed registration form required for program admittance.