2010 will be the Year of Accelerating Results.  Are you ready? 

2009 was called the “Year of Innovation.”  But what good is innovation without results?  And, in today’s volatile economic environment, unless results happen fast, they may not happen at all.  Whether it’s “make it or break it” time, or a need to get out ahead of the pack,  2010 is going to be the Year of Accelerating Results.  Are you ready?

Three critical components are required to achieve results:

(1) Team Ownership,

(2) Team Performance and Diversity of Thought, and an

(3) Efficient and Comprehensive Results Process. 

If your organization is missing or lacking in any of these three areas, achieving results will feel like an uphill battle.  However, when all three elements are aligned, your teams will have greater focus and engagement toward the attainment of results in as little as 30-90 days.

a team pre-assessment, followed by two half-day workshops. 

The Foundational Event sets the stage for team communication and performance,
followed by your choice of one of our focused Module events: (1) Sales & Customer Service;
(2) Motivation & Commitment; (3) Meetings; (4) Harmony & Conflict Resolution,
(5) Contribution & Accountability, or (6) our expanded Strategic Planning .module. 

Next are the follow-up web meetings, one per week for three weeks, which take the team
through the rest of the 9 Steps, culminating in a results celebration in 90 days!

The DrawSuccess Contribution & Accountability Module

Contribution and Accountability are critical for a team’s success.  Contribution indicates that each team member is contributing their best to the team, and Accountability provides the framework to accomplish this goal.  The DrawSuccess Contribution & Accountability Program is an engaging and experiential workshop with a wraparound reinforcement program in which teams come together to build a plan to accelerate results and achieve higher levels of team performance, while developing a deeper understanding of each other’s strengths and contributions.

This session will be valuable for you if:

• The team is working on important projects where it’s essential to get the best performance from every member of the team.
• Teams are interested in improving each team member’s level of accountability, including learning from failures and mistakes, avoiding excuses and finger-pointing, sharing credit, taking the initiative, creating contingency plans, responding instead of reacting, etc.
• Not all team members are contributing their best and/or the team is having difficulty achieving goals.
• The team is forming or incorporating a new team member and wants to expedite team integration.
• The team is storming, under stress or disengaged and needs to overcome barriers to success.

Upon successful completion of this program, participants will be able to:

• Compare and contrast the ways each Inner Genius Style contributes to team performance and match team members to their optimum role and contribution to the team.
• Identify and overcome the obstacles to success, both past and future, and apply solutions to foster individual and group contribution and accountability.
• Explain ways to create process solutions to solve people problems.
• By incorporating each team member’s unique contribution to the team, the team will come together to deliver a results-driven plan with high levels of individual and team accountability.

The DrawSuccess Harmony & Conflict Resolution Module

To reach Performing, all teams need to go through the Storming stage.  In fact, there can be no harmony, and success is hindered unless people are able to express themselves.  However, in many cases, teams are disbanded or reorganized when conflict begins.  Similarly, individual relationships often break up when the going gets tough.  However, just as muscles get stronger by stretching to their limits and surpassing the pain, teams get stronger through sharing their differences.  The solution is for team members to recognize and appreciate individual diversity, thereby allowing everyone to feel free to contribute their best.  When this happens, teams will then be able to reap the rewards of healthy discord and expedite the path to higher performance.  The DrawSuccess Harmony & Conflict Resolution Program is a highly engaging experiential workshop and wraparound reinforcement program in which teams come together to co-create a results-focused plan to achieve higher levels of harmony and success.

This session will be valuable for you if:

• You want a team where the members know how to resolve conflict when it arises and feel free to challenge each other.
• The team is forming or incorporating a new team member and needs to accelerate team integration and avoid unnecessary barriers to success.
• The team is storming and wants to gain greater understanding and solutions to move through challenges.
• The team is under stress and/or working on important projects where it’s essential to get the best performance from every team member, and for the group to work as a cohesive team.

Upon successful completion of this program, participants will be able to:

• Recognize the potential areas of conflict among Inner Genius Styles, and overcome the common causes of stress and discord arising from a diverse group.   
• Apply the four stages of team development to the subject of Harmony & Conflict Resolution and recognize the need for and benefits of constructive storming. 
• Gain a greater appreciation and understanding of each team member’s strengths and contributions.

The DrawSuccess Meeting Participation & Productivity Module

Meetings are an integral part of teams and team dynamics.  However, not everyone wants the same things from meetings.  Some people are driven toward speed and accomplishment, some are focused on details and tasks, some use meetings to receive information, and others enjoy the social interaction.  In the DrawSuccess Meetings Module, your team will learn about the Inner Genius Styles in meetings in a highly engaging and experiential way. Then you will unite to implement an accelerated results-driven plan to improve meeting participation and productivity while developing a deeper understanding of each other’s needs, roles and contributions.

This session will be valuable for you if:

• Your team is working on important projects where it’s essential to have efficient and effective team meetings and get the best participation and performance from every member of the team.
• Your team needs meetings where tasks and goals are accomplished and new ideas are explored.
• You want team meetings with active participation and lively, yet respectful debate.
• The team wants to integrate and appreciate the contributions of each team member in meetings.
• The team wants to move from forming (new teams) or storming (teams with tension, discord or sporadic commitment) to higher levels of performance in meetings.

Upon successful completion of this program, participants will be able to:

• Understand the different desires and frustrations of each team member’s Inner Genius Style in meetings.
• Identify the team’s potential obstacles to having effective meetings and develop solutions to overcome these barriers.
• Employ techniques for the team to encourage participation in meetings, and efficiently manage the available resources including time, energy and engagement to reach high performance.
• By integrating each team member’s skills, strengths and experience, the team will unite, create and deliver a plan to achieve higher levels of team success in meetings.

The DrawSuccess Motivation & Commitment Module

As legendary coach Vince Lombardi said, “The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence.”  Commitment, however, takes motivation.  And different things motivate different people, especially in team situations.  In this highly engaging experiential workshop and wraparound reinforcement program, teams will learn more about the factors that affect motivation and commitment, and work together to build a results-focused plan to achieve higher levels of team performance.

This session will be valuable for you if:

• You want each team member to be fully engaged, motivated and committed to the team's success.
• The team is forming or incorporating one or more new team members and needs to expedite team integration and get everyone motivated and committed to working together.
• The team is storming, with conflict, disengagement or stress and wants to overcome these and other barriers to success and reach higher levels of achievement.
• The team is working on important projects where it’s essential to get the best performance from every member of the team and for the group to be motivated and committed to working together as a cohesive team.

Upon successful completion of this program, participants will be able to:

• Discover the ways to motivate and engage each of the four Inner Genius Styles, including fellow team members, employees, supervisors, leaders customers and suppliers.
• Explore factors that create engagement or lead to disengagement.
• Recognize the two kinds of motivation and how they relate to each Inner Genius Style.
• Determine the ways enhancing motivation and commitment can make the company and team more competitive and effective.
• By incorporating each team member’s talents and experience, the team will produce solutions and deliver a plan where team members are united and motivated to achieve higher levels of success.

The DrawSuccess Sales & Customer Service Module

Everybody sells and everyone has customers.  We sell ourselves to get jobs, our strengths to find relationships, our accomplishments to get recognition and our ideas to create positive change and get what we want.  When selling, either in a traditional sales situation or just selling ideas, the same approach doesn’t work with everyone.  The DrawSuccess Sales & Customer Service Module explores these Inner Genius Style differences while also generating ideas and solutions to maximize sales through an engaging and experiential workshop plus wraparound reinforcement program.  The result will be an expedited results-focused plan to achieve higher levels of individual and team success.

This session will be valuable for you if:

• It’s important to recognize, appreciate and advance each team member’s ability to sell ideas, solutions, products and/or services.
• You work on a team and/or in a company that wants to improve its level of performance in Sales & Customer Service, including being more effective in working with – and for – other groups or leaders.
• Your team and/or company wants to improve its competitive advantage in the marketplace.
• The team is forming or integrating a new team member and wants to expedite team integration.  Or, the team is storming and wants to unite as a team to overcome barriers to success.

Upon successful completion of this program, participants will be able to:

• Compare and contrast the selling style strengths for each Inner Genius Style.
• Know the best way to motivate and build relationships with the different Inner Genius Styles.
• Avoid the things that annoy, frustrate or bother people with diverse personalities.
• Determine the ways the ability to “Sell by Style” can make the company and team more effective and competitive.
• By incorporating each team member’s skills, strengths and experience, the team will generate solutions and deliver a plan where team members are united and motivated to achieve higher levels of success in selling and/or providing service to others.

The DrawSuccess Results Process

DrawSuccess employs a Nine Step Results Process, starting with Idea Generation (Step 1) all the way through  Celebrating Success (Step 9):

Research suggests that when people help create something themselves, they “own” it.  Therefore, Team Ownership is critical in the successful execution of plans and delivery of results.