If you’re intending to register for the two-day Masterclass in Washington DC on July 30-31, with Steve Denning and Seth Kahan, on Getting Change Right through High-Performance Teams, register by tomorrow Friday July 3, and get the 33% discount. For more information, go here.
It is seven-thirty in the morning in a little village in the south of France. The village is Golfe-Juan. We are just a few kilometers from the big modern city of Cannes. But the scene I am looking at is as different from a big city as it is possible to be.
On this pleasantly crisp June morning, the sky is blue. I am sitting at an outdoor table of a cafe called La Fregate, sipping an espresso coffee.
As I sit, the rich, irresistible smell of warm fresh bread is wafting across the one-lane street from the the boulangerie called Mille Epis The bread is baked on the premises by people who are masters of their craft. Even at this hour, clients are coming to pick up their freshly baked baguettes. They usually buy two. It is no use buying one baguette. The bread is so tasty and aromatic you will have eaten one on the way home.
It suddenly dawns on me that the citizens of this little viilage have a lot to teach us about high-performance teams. To find out what, go here.
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I am excited to announce that I will be holding two masterclasses in June on high-performance teams.
One is a two-day event with Seth Kahan in Washington, DC on June 11 & 12 and is entitled Getting Change Right through High-Performance Teams. It is a marriage of my work with Seth’s. Tuition is $1500, but you can register for $1,000 until May 15. Read the complete announcement here.
The second is a one-day event in London on June 22 which is entitled, High-Performance Project Planning and Management. Tuition is £495 plus VAT. Read the complete announcemennt here.
Both events promise to be exceptional learning experiences. At these events I will be sharing the outcome of my recent research on high-performance teams. If you participate, you will make some exciting discoveries:
1. You already know what high-performance teams are.
2. You already instinctively know how to create high-performance teams, once the capacity within you to do so is unfrozen.
3. Many people and firms are already creating high-performance teams in large numbers.
4. The improvement in performance that comes from getting into a high-performance mode is dramatic: these aren’t small improvements in productivity—they are differences in scale.
5. High-performance teams usually don’t die of natural causes: they are usually murdered by management.
In short, in these masterclasses, you will learn what you need to do generate and sustain high-performance teams. Because these discoveries are often counter-intuitive and counter-cultural, much of the learning will be experiential. You will actually experience what’s it like to be in a high-performance team, and come to understand how and why it is different, and how you can recreate the experience.
You can preview the content of the masterclasses in a free teleseminar in Wednesday May 6, 2009, at 11am US ET – 4pm UK time. It will be co-hosted by Dr. Bonnie Cheuk. Get the registration details for the teleseminar here.
You can also get a taste of what the masterclasses are about by listening to these mp3 recordings from my opening address at the Smithsonian storytelling weekend last Friday, and a subsequent session with Seth Kahan where the participants discovered that they already knew what high-performance teams are:
Welcome to the conference(1 minute)
Why work sucks(4 minutes)
What are high-performance teams? (7 minutes)
How did high-performance teams emerge?(16 minutes)
Why we need to change the workplace(9 minutes)
Both masterclasses have already begun to fill. I hope you will join me at one of them!
You can now follow my activities and thoughts on a daily basis on Twitter.
My user name is: stevedenning.
I'm not planning to tell you about the crab cake I had for lunch (unless it's extraordinary). Rather I will be jotting down some of my thoughts about leadership, storytelling and high-performance teams.
My article, "The Uniter vs The Divider", about the use of story by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, has been headlined in OpEdNews.
"As Hillary Clinton learns to tell her story, and for the first time generates genuine enthusiasm among her supporters, she also runs the risk of being seen as 'the divider'. Meanwhile if Barack Obama is to continue to be seen as 'the uniter', he must learn to tell a wider set of stories, including those of gun owners and small-town America."
On December 8, 2007, the Financial Times selected The Secret Language of Leadership as #2 in its list of the Best Business Books of 2007.
On December 17, 2007, 800_CEO_READ published its selection of the Best Business Books of 2007. The Secret Language of Leadership was included as one of the top four books on leadership.
THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF LEADERSHIP.
“If business leaders do not immediately grasp the vital insights offered by this book, both they and their organisations are doomed.” Financial Times, August 29, 2007
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