Do Big Things : The Simple Steps Teams Can Take to Mobilize Hearts and Minds, and Make an Epic Impact

Do Big Things : The Simple Steps Teams can Take to Mobilize Hearts and Minds, and Make an Epic Impact Contents Read Me First 1: Teams That Do Big Things Why Many Teams Can't Do Big Things Today Is Your Team's Whole Heart in It? How Legendary Teams Succeed in Doing Big Things Going Deeper Than Behavior Basics A System for Creating the Thinking, Actions, and Outcomes Necessary for Success The Do Big Things Framework The DBT Framework From 30,000 Feet What Success Looks Like The Important Requirement of You 2: Teams That Flatline A Team in Trouble. The End of Teamwork (As We Know It)A Big Story to Tell 3: Commit to the Human Imperative Respect Is Not Enough What It Means to Make an Epic Impact What the Human Imperative Sounds Like How to Determine the Team's Human Imperative When the Big Things of Two Different Teams Collide When We Are Exponentially More Effective 4: Embody Success (and Leverage Failure) Your Team Either Has Confidence-Or It Doesn't Preparing for Success Who's in Control of Your Team's Confidence? How to Put Intrinsic Motivations Into Action How to Leverage Failure Accountability Reflex Assessment. Staying Inspired When the Team Misses Their TargetHow to Know If You're on a Team That Embodies Success When the Future Becomes Now 5: Choose to Contribute, Activate, and Connect Across the Business Teams That Do Big Things Make Three Big Decisions The Contributor Decision The Activator Decision The Connector Decision Your Most Important Role Doing Big Things Is an All-The-Time Thing The Contributor Decision: A Closer Look How to Make the Contributor Decision More Consistently The Activator Decision: A Closer Look How to Make the Activator Decision More Consistently. The Connector Decision: A Closer LookHow to Make the Connector Decision More Consistently Do-Or-Die Teamwork 6: Exercise Your Barrier-Breaking Authority The Barriers to Success Authority: Take It or Leave It Teams That Forfeit Their Authority Teams That Exercise Their Authority Using the Contributor Decision to Break Through Barriers Using the Activator Decision to Break Through Barriers Using the Connector Decision to Break Through Barriers The Path to Doing Big Things Is Open 7: Focus on What Matters Distracted, Hopelessly Stressed, and Disconnected Teams What Matters Most. How to Focus on What Matters: the 3 Mind FactorsMind Factor #1: The Mind Can Only Focus on One Thought at a Time Mind Factor #2: The Mind Cannot Avoid a Don't Mind Factor #3: The Mind Goes Toward Its Focus Collecting Evidence to Prove You Can't Succeed The Doofus Principle How to End Doofusing We Need Each Other 8: Energize Around a Shared Reality How to Energize the Team Around a Shared Reality: The Energy Map Stop Trying to Be So Positive Leveraging the Back Side of the Energy Map to Develop the Team's Ability to Move Forward.

An inspiring, practical and progress-oriented blueprint for energetic achievement.

Amid constant swirl, uncertainty, and complexity is your team capable of doing big things? Too often people are pulled together, labeled a “team,” given a directive, and expected to deliver results quickly. Soon, however, due to lack of focus, increasing pressures and competing priorities the team suffers from DSD: distracted, hopelessly stressed and disconnected from one another. Predictably, the team flatlines and the energy needed to succeed is lost.

Based upon research of what successful teams do to overcome severe odds, Do Big Things presents an intuitive, seven-step process that equips teams with how to quickly and consistently operate in a manner necessary for success.

Team members develop the self-awareness and ability to:

• Bring their best to every situation
• Bring out the best in others in every interaction
• Partner across the business to deliver common objectives

Filled with practical tools and engaging stories of teams today, Do Big Things equips leaders with “the how” to quickly identify and activate the behaviors needed to achieve more than you or your team ever thought possible. Idea and information exchanges interlock the hand, head and heart of each team member to get everyone moving toward a common goal. Increasingly, individually and collectively, the team becomes emotionally stronger and more productive as they do their work.

Do Big Things provides your team with the common language necessary to be authentic, empathetic and transparent, so that potential barriers to success come to light - faster. This empowers the team to be more accountable with an enterprise mindset, because they can have the profound discussions needed to adapt quicker to unforeseen challenges and demonstrate an innovative reflex.

By applying the concepts in this book, the team’s daily interactions are transformed, focus is sustained, and energetic progress toward your goals is triggered. Every member of your team wants to succeed. Do Big Things provides a straightforward method to bring greater meaning to the work everyone does so the team delivers extraordinary performance together.

You know what your team can achieve--now use the proven method to enable them to do it.

An inspiring, practical and progress-oriented blueprint for energetic achievement.

Amid constant swirl, uncertainty, and complexity is your team capable of doing big things? Too often people are pulled together, labeled a "team, " given a directive, and expected to deliver results quickly. Soon, however, due to lack of focus, increasing pressures and competing priorities the team suffers from DSD: distracted, hopelessly stressed and disconnected from one another. Predictably, the team flatlines and the energy needed to succeed is lost.

Based upon research of what successful teams do to overcome severe odds, Do Big Things presents an intuitive, seven-step process that equips teams with how to quickly and consistently operate in a manner necessary for success.

Team members develop the self-awareness and ability to:

• Bring their best to every situation
• Bring out the best in others in every interaction
• Partner across the business to deliver common objectives

Filled with practical tools and engaging stories of teams today, Do Big Things equips leaders with "the how" to quickly identify and activate the behaviors needed to achieve more than you or your team ever thought possible. Idea and information exchanges interlock the hand, head and heart of each team member to get everyone moving toward a common goal. Increasingly, individually and collectively, the team becomes emotionally stronger and more productive as they do their work.

Do Big Things provides your team with the common language necessary to be authentic, empathetic and transparent, so that potential barriers to success come to light – faster. This empowers the team to be more accountable with an enterprise mindset, because they can have the profound discussions needed to adapt quicker to unforeseen challenges and demonstrate an innovative reflex.

By applying the concepts in this book, the team's daily interactions are transformed, focus is sustained, and energetic progress toward your goals is triggered. Every member of your team wants to succeed. Do Big Things provides a straightforward method to bring greater meaning to the work everyone does so the team delivers extraordinary performance together.

You know what your team can achieve—now use the proven method to enable them to do it.

Too often people are pulled together, labeled a "team," given a directive, and expected to deliver results quickly. All too often the team suffers from DSD: distracted, hopelessly stressed and disconnected from one another. The team flatlines and the energy needed to succeed is lost. The authors present an intuitive, seven-step process that equips teams with how to quickly and consistently operate in a manner necessary for success. Teams that do big things Teams that flatline Commit to the human imperative Embody success (and leverage failure) Choose to contribute, activate, and connect across the business Exercise your barrier-breaking authority Focus on what matters Energize around a shared reality Mobilize hearts and minds forward Is your team ready to do big things? What big things will your team do? Based upon research of what successful teams do to overcome severe odds, this straightforward book presents an intuitive, seven-step process that equips teams with how to quickly and consistently operate in a manner necessary for success. -- Résumé abrégé tiré de l'ouvrage Based upon research of what successful teams do to overcome severe odds, this straightforward book presents an intuitive, seven-step process that equips teams with how to quickly and consistently operate in a manner necessary for success. -- Edited summary from book