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Agile Distributed Teams

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Date: 1/30/2008-1/31/2008 9:00am-5:00pm, San Jose, CA: Cupertino Inn

Course Overview

Attendees will have a unique, challenging, and rewarding experience. This course goes beyond presentation of theory by allowing attendees to internalize the ideas via a powerful combination of applied exercises, reflection, and learning. Attendees will learn techniques for joining and setting up "well-formed agile teams" across distances, and apply these techniques in experiential exercises. This course is built on proven principles of systems thinking, team process concepts, agile product development, human interaction and creativity. Attendees will have numerous opportunities for interactive discussion with the instructor and each other. You will not find this course elsewhere!

Knowledge Team Leadership: The Art & Science of Being Amazingly Effective in Any Team with Christopher Avery

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Date: 02/26/2008-02/28/2008 8:30am-5:00pm daily, Santa Clara, CA: TBD

Course Overview

Becoming skilled at doing more with others may be the single most important thing you can do to increase your value as a knowledge worker. Knowledge Team Leadership fills a unique niche by providing the "Agile Lube" for getting work done with others. No other course compares.

Agile Software Development is beginning to enjoy the recognition that it deserves as a productive and quality-enhancing approach to project delivery. Those that understand agility best know that it is the cultural values and social arrangements that make these methods outperform. How well does your team perform? Is it optimal? Would you say that your team's performance is great? Do you want it to be?

As corporate hierarchies flatten and the old command-and-control structures dissolve into self-directing teams, uncovering what makes teams function and what makes them great is a question of growing importance.

Teamwork does not depend on group-bonding or a facilitator's magic art. Teamwork is actually based on individual skills, beliefs, and attitudes that individual members learn to bring to the team table. Great teams are built around a series of "conversations" that help to define each individual's role, agreements, and commitments to the team.

Knowledge Team Leadership with Christopher Avery Ph.D. is a powerful 3 day course that equips you with a set of individual skills and behaviors to create highly responsible and productive relationships. Knowledge Team Leadership gives you practical knowledge about the conditions under which we human beings optimize our work together. You will learn how to create a great team by optimizing your collaboration skills.

CEOs and enterprise managers told us in recent interviews the competency they most desire in their employees is not innovativeness, loyalty (surprisingly), or hard work, but ownership. This seminar develops that competency for professionals.

Ultimately, collaborative success depends on your ability to compete for your organization's scarcest resource—the attention of project team members. The difference between effective and ineffective knowledge teams isn't in the skill levels, supporting technologies, or facilities. It's in the interpersonal dynamics among the team members.

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Heather Kuta

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