TIER ONE
Create your team identity and develop trust.
During each step of the process, I specifically outline what I will lead and work with your on.
TIER ONE

Step 1 - What we stand for
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Identify the roles and responsibilities of your team
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Work directly with team/functional leaders to create clear messaging around the functions of their team
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Take the team through multiple exercises to expand on this messaging and create a clear vision and overall responsibility of the team to operate in
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Guide the team to determine the goals of the next 1 - 3 years needed to accomplish that vision
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Help the team to determine the roles and responsibilities needed to achieve the vision and goals
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Step 2 - What we need to do
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Identify the work that needs to happen​
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Guiding the team to outline what needs to happen to accomplish the intended goals
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Using prioritization and time management tools, align on the projects that need to happen now, next, and later​
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Helping the team to determine how they can divide and conquer to accomplish the work ​​​​
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Identify any skill gaps within the team to accomplish these goals (can lead to hiring recs or development opportunities)

Step 3 - What are we currently doing
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Identify all the current work the team is doing​
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Guiding the team to collectively share their current projects
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Identifying which projects support and do not support the overall vision and goals of the team​
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Clarifying how certain work that doesn’t support the bottom line can be transitioned to other teams or sunsetted within the organization​​​
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Step 4 - How do we want work together
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Identify how the team/function wants to work together and interact
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Complete a communication tool assessment (learn about yourself and how you prefer to interact with others)
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Provide an interactive workshop on communication and interaction with the team (I typically use a tool called DISC)​
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Additional workshop options in Trust, Ownership, Psychological Safety, and Change Management​ (Optional)
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Decide on internal team operating norms and behaviors
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Create internal team process to be effective (e.g. SOPs, ticketing systems, etc.)

Step 5 - What do we want other people to know
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Identify what information to share with stakeholders about your function
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Work directly with the functional leader to create a team operating model (i.e. what we do, what we don’t do, what partnership looks like, etc.)
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Collaboratively review the operations model with the team and gather feedback
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Create an annual road map
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Scope teams anticipated bandwidth throughout the year based on anticipated projects
