LIFO^® Training for Teams

Team members contribute far more than just technical skills and knowledge to a team: each member brings a rich array of values, priorities, strengths, and communication preferences. These human factors can have a tremendous impact on team performance, yet most teams do not have a framework or process for consciously managing them.

Life Orientations^® Training—or LIFO Training for short—enables teams to:

• Inventory team assets. They identify the values, priorities, strengths, and communication preferences of team members and explore their impact on team performance.
• Prioritize performance issues. They Identify which of these factors are over represented or under represented in the team and how these imbalances may lead to time-wasting excesses or dangerous blind spots.
• Develop performance improvement plans. They apply strategies for controlling their excesses and filling in their blind spots to ensure better plans, decisions, and allocation of team resources.
• Manage differences. Learn how to capitalize on the diverse strengths and points of view of all team members so differences stimulate higher performance rather than trigger unproductive conflict. 

At the conclusion of this team building module, the participants apply all that they have learned about themselves as individuals and as a team to solve a current team problem or achieve a vital team goal.

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The Human Element^® for Teams

Teams are usually assembled in response to operational needs or project requirements with little regard for the personal and interpersonal “chemistry” of the team members. As a consequence, teams may possess the technical knowledge, skills, and resources to achieve their mission but still fall short due to personal and interpersonal factors such as mistrust, excessive competitiveness, passive-aggressive behavior, lack of genuine commitment, and low morale.

Participants in this module learn how to address team issues in constructive ways that release tremendous power for sustained team performance.

• They experience the profound connections between emotion, reason, and action.
• Based on this increased awareness of the elements of personal integrity, they achieve greater trust, openness, and accountability within the team and with key players outside the team.
• The result is a measurable increase in productivity that goes straight to the bottom line.

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Radical Collaboration

Successful team members get things done by collaborating closely with one other and building strong collaborative networks with a wide variety of people outside the team. In this module, team members acquire five essential collaboration skills:

• Collaborative Intention. Maintaining a non-defensive presence and making a conscious personal commitment to seeking mutual gains in relationships.
• Truthfulness. Committing to speak and listen to the truth and to create an atmosphere in which it feels safe enough to raise difficult issues.
• Self-Accountability. Taking responsibility for the full range of ones choices, either through action or inaction, and taking responsibility for both the intended and unintended or unforeseen consequences of those choices.
• Self-Awareness and Awareness of Others. Committing to know oneself deeply and showing a willingness to deal with difficult interpersonal issues.
• Solving Problems and Negotiating: Skillfully negotiating ones way through the conflict that is inevitable in any long-term relationship.

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