Ditch the Lecture If You Want to Improve Teams
Ain't nobody got time for a lecture… am I right?!
So why do we think that will work when we want people to improve something? You got me… but it's a REAL popular belief.
If you want to improve something on your team (or have a role in team improvement in some way cough cough #HR), for the love of Pete, ditch the lecture and do THIS instead. Everyone, including your metrics, will thank you.
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[00:00:00] Improving team performance seems to be a hot and tricky topic. I did a poll on both LinkedIn and Instagram asking people what type of content they were looking for from me. And one of the options and a highly voted option was improving team performance. So there's many ways that you can improve team performance, but I want to talk about one of the things that I see most often and how to make it more effective.
One of the number one things I get requests for is a training or some sort of facilitated session and there's tons of research that shows that trainings are not the best solution. I can tell you from my experience that training alone almost never leads to improved team performance. So let me talk to you about how you can actually use a facilitated session to kickstart some team improvement.
Exclusive training or lecturing just does not work. Adults just do not learn that way. We really learn through application and through applying it to our lived reality. So if you have a session where you're going to be focusing on some sort of topic or want to introduce something that you want the [00:01:00] team to improve upon, ditch the lecture, ditch the content overload, and focus more on giving people time to talk to one another, unpack the content, apply it to what they're doing.
And my favorite, give people a task to go apply it in their real work over the next couple weeks, and come back and talk about how it went.