Roadmap to a Successful High-Performance Team
41mIntermediate2022-09-01
Authors

Sam Yankelevitch
Author, Trainer, International Conference Speaker
Course details
The A3 roadmap provides an actionable step-by-step guide for organizations that are striving to improve the performance of their teams and achieve operational excellence. In this course, instructor Sam Yankelevitch covers the important A3 topics you need to know, including: Recognizing what a high-performance team is (and isn’t) about; Illustrating how a roadmap helps visualize how to clearly move from the current situation to an improved one; the eight steps of the A3 thinking process; modeling a successful organizational design example as a future state in your A3 model; and more. He also details specific work practices needed to achieve high performance, like communication, psychological safety, problem solving, rituals, meetings and decision making. Sam then illustrates the whole process via a real-life case study that moves from current team performance to improved performance.
Skills covered
Teams and CollaborationProfessional DevelopmentLeadership and ManagementOne-Off
Concepts
Introduction
- A3 empowers high-performance teams
- How an A3 roadmap can be helpful
- What is A3 and what are the steps
A3 Thinking as the Roadmap
- Define your business goals
- Current observed behaviors
- Desired behaviors in a high-performance team
- Visualize the gap between current and desired behaviors
Analyze Obstacles and Identify Countermeasures
- Analyze potential obstacles
- Brainstorm countermeasures to overcome obstacles
- Who is going to do what and when
Evaluate the Effectiveness of Your Activities
- Evaluate if A3 problem-solving is working
- Case study - Applying an A3 roadmap
- Using A3 in the virtual world
Conclusion
- Change happens by force or choice