PMI La Crosse - Rochester Chapter presents

Solving The Team Puzzle: How Teams Work

January 12, 2017 - Rochester, MN

Session Description: 

Ask any group of experts to define the elements of team performance and you will get a long list. Ask them in what order to those elements and you will get a long discussion. Long lists and long discussions are not actionable.

In this presentation Doug Peters will reduce those long lists down to three variables. He will then demonstrate how those elements combine to create a three-dimensional puzzle that must be solved each time a team is built. Finally, he will present his Team Launch Strategy that organizes the building of a team into a Phase/Gate system for team development that develops high performance teams faster, better, and at less cost than traditional team building approaches. 

Doug’s work is based on the best practices of high performance teams at 3M. These best practices were developed over an intensive twenty-year period of implementing high performance new product teams, business, teams, executive teams and improvement teams in over 75 divisions of 3M Company. He has applied this learning to high performance teams in companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 organizations. His worked was published in the PDMA Tool Book and was presented to an International PDMA conference in Orlando, Florida.

About the Speaker:

Doug’s work with teams began in graduate school where he focused on the use of teams and small groups in counseling and therapy. His corporate experience began in Control Data’s productivity department where he was charged with determining why quality circles worked in some companies and not in others. Since that time he has conducted over 400 team training and team building events.

Over the last 25 years Doug has worked with a wide range of teams in a variety of organizations. He specializes in new product development teams, business teams, executive teams, and major project teams. He has also worked with customer service teams, quality improvement teams, process improvement teams, self-directed work teams, sales teams and others. 
Doug has designed and delivered hundreds of workshops on a wide variety of topics to a wide range of organizations. He is a subject matter expert in personal effectiveness, interpersonal effectiveness, team effectiveness, organizational effectiveness, and supervisory/management development.

Schedule of Events:

• 5:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m - Sign In and Networking
• 5:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m -  Dinner and President Announcements
• 5:45 p.m. - 7:00 p.m - Presentation

Menu List: 

 TBD

Dress Code:

The PMI La Crosse - Rochester Chapter does not have a policy for dress code and trusts its attendees to dress appropriately.  Business casual dress is certainly acceptable attire at events and workshops. 

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Talent Triangle Category: Technical