McNeil Consulting

Overview: An overview of the Drexler Sibbet Team Performance Model
Duration: 1/2 or 1 day session
Description: A thorough walk through of the Drexler Sibbet Team Performance Model. The Model is also a map, a graphic journey, and a language. The workshop is highly interactive. Lecture and discussion are punctuated with live exercises that illustrate the team's journey and make the learning experiential. The session is lively, fun, and engaging. The one day workshop includes a module on Team Start-up aimed at helping participants learn best practices for launching a new team, a cross-functional team or a mission critical team.

Overview: This workshop emphasizes how to design and facilitate Action Research Meetings and Workshops
Duration: 3 1/2 Days
Description: The workshop is based on learning 12 classic Action Research Designs. Each design is described in a carefully constructed "Play Book." Participants work in pairs and decide which design they want to facilitate. Designs emphasize the collection of data in real time, and how to present the data back creatively. In the process of facilitating the designs, participants learn the underlying structure that makes the design work. Learning how to design on the spot is an integral part of this workshop. Participants lead real-time feedback for their colleagues and receive it for their design. This is a workshop long remembered both for the skills learned and the creativity displayed. Participants leave with a solid understanding of Action Research and how to design Action Research meetings, conferences and workshops.

Major topical areas are:

• Action Research Model
• Action Research Facilitation
• Group Dynamics
• Data Collection Activities
• Great Meeting Design
• Publishing Data in Creative Ways
• Strength Training for Facilitators
• Designing and Delivering on the Spot
• The Power of Feedback
• Monitoring Progress and Course Corrections
• Straw Models for Closure
• New Methodologies for Collaboration
• Web 2.0 Meetings

Overview: This workshop certifies participants to use the Drexler Sibbet Team Performance Inventory with teams.
Duration: Two Part Workshop - A 4 day Workshop followed by a 2 day Clinic
Description: Participants learn how to use the Drexler Sibbet Team Performance Inventory to help teams move to high performance. The Inventory is covered in depth, as well as how to contract with a team leader and the team to take the Inventory and participate in a 2 day retreat. Special emphasis is placed on creating a safe environment for difficult issues to be raised and resolved. Participants practice using role play and case study how to facilitate the 2 day retreat.

Following the workshop, participants are required to contract with an actual client team, facilitate the retreat, and return to a special clinic run by Allen Drexler and Rob McNeil.

Overview: Formal Action Research methodology to help a team move to high performance.
Duration: Two-day, Off-site Retreat
Description: Teams can dramatically improve their performance. What is needed is a map, a method, a facilitator, and a commitment. The Tune-up provides all of these. The Team Leader and the Team contract to take the TP Inventory, and schedule time for a 2-day offsite. They agree to a two part structured discussion based on the findings from the Invetory. The first part of the discussion identifies the team's strengths and areas for improvement. The second part develops an action plan from the first discussion and integrates the agreed upon plan into the team's work. The plan is tracked over time, usually at quarterly meetings.

Team performance can increase significantly after a Team Retreat. Undiscussed issues that were holding performance back are identified, and resolved. Action plans are put in place. Team members speak more forthrightly, and collaboration occurs more naturally. It is not uncommon to see large gains in performance after a retreat. If you'd like to see a copy of a sample Team Performance Inventory Report, we placed a sample in the Library. Check it out.

Please contact us with any questions about doing a Team Tune-up.

Overview: Facilitated Session to Identify the most robust Business Strategy
Duration: 1- 3 days - Designed with Client Design Team
Description: Our Model of Business Strategy has been continuously refined over the past twenty years of consulting. We base our model on the work of Robert Fritz's work. We work with our clients to produce a hierarchical map, of what initiatives are mission critical for achieving their desired results. We help our clients to:

• picture and shape their END RESULT
• welcome, chart, publish, understand, and own their CURRENT REALITY
• Identify the CORE ELEMENTS that when resolved will bring

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Overview: A large two-day meeting where participants attempt to create a shared community vision of the future.The Future Search Conference brings together those with the power to make decisions with those affected by the decisions to try to agree on a plan of action. The future search conference can also be used to focus on the future of an organization, a network of people or a community. Participants explore the past, present and future and make action plans based on common ground.
Duration: The Conference lasts 2 1/2 Days.
Description: Usually 60 to 80 stakeholders of the organization come together. All have a strong vested outcome in designing, creating, and sustaining their desirable future. There are 5 major tasks to compete:

1. Exploration of the Past - Usually 30 years. Participants examine the past from an individual perspective, a world perspective, and a company perspective.
2. Exploration of the Present - Participants construct a Mind Map of Present Trends and their potential impact of these on the Desired Future
3. Choice Points, Decision, and Common Ground - Participants make hard choices about what they want to create in their future.
4. The Ideal Future - What's Possible - Given their past and the present - participants describe their Ideal Future in a vivid presentation.
5. Action Planning - Participants create working subgroups and commit to work towards their Desired Future

Overview: Leaders from an organization convene and hold an Instant Feedback Forum,
Duration: Range: From 1/2 day to 2 days
Description: In these meetings we deliberately and by design speed up the normal feedback process. The leaders sit at round tables and share wireless laptops connected to The Hive. After a presentation, they can provide instant feedback, through the laptops in the form of questions, and comments. This facilitated process gets everyone in the game and levels the playing field. It also changes the look and feel of your meeting dramatically. The people who usually speak (and sometimes dominate) participate as much as the leaders who never speak ( and who have valuable contributions to make). We project all the thoughts on a big screen for all to see, and we assign a "theme team" to organize the questions and comments into core, common and consistent themes that reflect the thinking of your leadership team.

We call the Process: What IF?
What would we learn IF everyone spoke?
What's possible IF everyone aligns?
What mistakes would we avoid IF everyone took a look?
What could we accomplish IF we all put our heads together?

The key to these meetings is to design them correctly. We always want a healthy mix of Presentation, Table Talk, Instant Feedback, Theme Presentation, Open Microphone, and Resolution. We've led these meetings for over 15 years now and we can safely guarantee you to have one of your most productive Senior Leadership Retreats ever.

Overview: Helping Executives Become Aware of Their Style
Duration: One day or a day and a half
Description: LIFO certifications begin by identifying each participant’s unique orientation to life and work, or behavioral style. This includes the enduring values they cherish, the goals they strive to achieve, and the strengths they bring to their work and relationships—both when things are going well and in situations of stress or conflict. Based on this information, participants learn how to:

* Capitalize. Make greater use of their strengths.
* Moderate. Save time and energy.
* Extend. Fill in their blind spots.
* Supplement. Leverage the strengths of others.
* Bridge. Communicate more effectively with others.
* Collaborate. Work more collaboratively in groups.

Essential Applications

The LIFO Method is a core performance improvement technology with four essential applications:

1. Break the Performance Barrier. A half-day or one-day workshop that empowers people at all organizational levels to consistently produce their very best work. Participants learn practical skills for managing their performance that really make a difference. They learn how to:
* Eliminate time-wasting work habits by learning how to set priorities, set limits, get focused, and get going.
* Develop a 360° perspective while gathering information, for more effective planning and problem-solving.
* Accomplish tasks more quickly and completely by utilizing a wider range of talents and strengths.
* Work with greater enthusiasm and mutual regard to accomplish shared goals.
2. Build Teams That Work. A one-day workshop that helps teams set priorities and maximize the contributions of all team members. It encourages real problem-solving and real teamwork without creating hassles, hard feelings, or harsh confrontation. It creates long-lasting results by enabling participants to:
* See situations from multiple points of view.
* Take advantage of diversity—rather than resisting it.
3. Bridge the Communication Gap. A half-day follow-up to Break the Performance Barrier that enables people to get through to others more easily, obtain agreement with less effort, and get things moving quickly. Participants learn how to:
Recognize other people’s most preferred channels of communication.
Translate their messages so they answer the key questions uppermost in other people’s minds.
4. Coach Breakthrough Performance. The LIFO Method provides a set of powerful learning and development strategies and tools you can use to enhance coaching sessions with executives, managers, team leaders, and individuals who want to improve their interpersonal effectiveness. It will enable you to quickly identify core performance issues, set goals for change, and effectively monitor progress. You will be able to provide valuable advice about how to handle challenging situations as well as difficult relationships.

Overview: Creativity as a Corporate Resource
Duration: 1- 2 Days
Description: Creativity is key to planning, and while some people are more adept at managing the creative process, others feel encumbered—and sometimes intimidated—by the belief that it is an unwieldy, abstract process. The Innovative Clinic dispels the myth that creativity exists only in gifted or talented business people.

The clinic takes a broad range of proven techniques and aligns them into a simple, manageable path for participants to follow in order to generate abundant new concepts, organize and filter them down to the single idea most likely to succeed, then hone the top idea into a useful tool, and implement it as a viable new initiative.

Once learned, this system brings executives, managers, and individual contributors to the next level of innovation. They become experts at drawing from their creativity to react progressively, quickly and positively not only to emerging market trends, but also to almost any organizational situation, from treading through complex negotiations to managing team conflicts and project crises.

Development Opportunities

   * Divergent thinking techniques to generate abundant new ideas;
   * Convergent thinking techniques to synthesize new alternatives from existing ideas;
   * Screening techniques to select the ideas most likely to succeed;
   * Polishing techniques to increase the probability of success; and
   * Mapping techniques to create workable implementation plans.

We make extensive use of The Hive in this workshop - and innovative technology in itself. The Hive works to help your team, brainstorm, capture, and process ideas.

Overview: Tap into Your Group Mind!
Duration: 30 minutes to 2 Days
Description: Could you use any of our tools to capture important data at your next meeting?

Examples:

You could pre-load meeting with a survey beforehand e.g. A SWOT Analysis were all leaders contribute. This would save tremendous time at your next meeting.
You could use the idea set tool tool at the meeting to collect

Overview: Tap into Your Group Mind!
Duration: 30 minutes to 2 Days
Description: Could you use any of our tools to capture important data at your next meeting?