Start Date: 9/14/2016 8:00 AM EDT
End Date: 9/14/2016 10:00 AM EDT
Venue Name: The Gannett/Tegna Building
Location:
7950 Jones Branch Drive
McLean, VA United States 22107
Organization Name:
HR Alliance DC
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Program:
In this highly interactive session, you will experience ways to enhance team performance. We have a solid, evidence-based understanding of what drives team performance, and we know how team size and membership change affects that performance. Generally, the evidence focuses on what teams can do or have more of to do better – more ideas, more time, more resources. However, there is a growing sense that having less might also be helpful under some circumstances. Having less time, fewer resources, and losing members might actually prompt teams to be more innovative, coordinate more effectively, and develop better work practices. This session will quickly summarize what we know about the five key drivers of team performance and then explore the emerging science of how teams respond to constraints. What happens when a team’s budget is cut? When it loses members (and they aren’t replaced)? When deadlines are moved up? Almost everyone has experienced one or more of these “shocks.” Can they ever increase team’s effectiveness? Under what circumstances can teams do more with less?
After attending this session, participants will:
- Know what five factors drive 75% of teams’ performance
- Understand how membership change and increasing team size affects teams
- Be introduced to the emerging science of how constraints affect teams – in terms of creativity/innovation, collaboration, efficiency, and effectiveness
- Experience the effects of constraints in a highly interactive exercise (on time, material resources, and human resources) working in small teams competing in a short, engaging computer-based simulation, which underscores key points from the session.
Speaker: Michael O'Leary
Michael O’Leary is an award-winning teacher and researcher (BC & Georgetown), and a former policy analyst (Pelavin Associates) and management consultant (C&L). In addition to undergraduate, masters, and PhD students, he has taught executive programs for a wide variety of domestic and international organizations including Abengoa, Booz Allen, Deloitte, KPMG, Telvent, World Bank, InterAmerican Development Bank, Irish Times, AARP, Josoor Institute, SK, National Association of Black Accountants, and Community Connections of Washington, DC. He is also the co-designer and lead academic advisor of the Presidential Leadership Scholars Program, which is sponsored jointly by the foundations and libraries of Presidents Bush (41 and 43), Clinton, and Johnson.
Prior to his academic career, as a policy analyst and management consultant, he worked on large-scale re-organizations, technology implementations, and process redesigns. His clients included universities, major medical centers, large nonprofits, and government agencies.
His research deals with high-performing teams (especially virtual ones), multitasking, multi-teaming, and teams facing resource constraints. His article about geographically dispersed colleagues won the 2015 Research Paper of the Year Award from CIONET – Europe’s largest association of IT executives.
He graduated from the MIT Sloan School of Management (Ph.D., Organization Studies) and Duke University (B.A., Public Policy), where he also was a member of the Board of Trustees.
Professional Development:
This program has been preapproved by HRCI for 1.50 General credits. The use of this seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met the HR Certification Institute’s criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.
This program has been submitted to SHRM and is valid for 1.5 PDCs for the SHRM-CP
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Thanks to our September program sponsors: