How to Build, Lead, and Sustain High Performing Teams

About this event

Course Overview:

Every sports team has fans that want to see a championship won. Every nonprofit organization has fans too, whether they are donors, volunteers, stakeholders, Board and committee members, staff or communities served.

This leadership development course is all about delivering for your fan base. It delves into the basics and best practices of what it takes to build, lead, and sustain a high performing team in any organization by exploring JELL Company’s High Performance Team Model.

During the course, participants will examine best practices learned from personal trial and error, working under many bosses, as well observations about what many leaders do well…and poorly.  Specific topics covered will include:

• Best vs. Worst bosses behaviors and impact on effort given to each
• Economic impact of bad hires and why “Staffing” is critical
• Leveraging a 9-box and “Talent Management Review” to build a “Staffing” plan
• 5-Step process to eliminate mediocrity and poor performing employees in 90 days
• Interviewing tips
• 2-phase training approach (supported by 6 training best-practices)
• Improving onboarding to improve speed to proficiency of New Hires
• The 3 hats “Best” bosses wear and why 2 of them help maximize “Execution”
• The Employee Fuel Gauge and how it helps drive ongoing direct report motivation
• The A-C-E principle with best practices in Accountability – Communication – Empowerment to help guide every step of the process

Note:  This course will also include optional office hours six weeks after the course to check-in with participant successes and challenges.

Course Outcomes:

Leaders who take this course and apply its learnings can expect to benefit from:

• Improved leadership skills
• Improved team synergy and results
• Improved team morale with underperforming employees dealt with
• Elimination of mediocrity driving improved team results
• Faster contributions to drive results from new hires
• Continued motivation of every team member
• Continued delivery, or over-delivery, of annual goals.
• Shaving years off your personal, leadership learning curve, mitigate your potential for critical leadership mistakes

Who Should Attend:

Nonprofit leaders and mangers charged with shaping organizational performance.

Faculty

John Jell

John Jell currently leads organizational development efforts for Dole Packaged Foods based in Westlake Village.

Previously, he led global Learning & Development under HR for energy drink leader Monster Energy. Prior to joining Monster John spent 25 years with The Coca-Cola Company and Nestlé in Sales, Marketing, and L&D capacities. He has also worked for a privately held firm, a venture capital holding, led a 501(c)3, and also had his own training company working with large organizations and nonprofits alike, including several in Ventura County.

On multiple occasions over the years, John took over teams that were underperforming and struggling.  He turned them all around quickly after realizing, regardless of organization type or industry, there were some basics and best practices to build, lead, and sustain high performing teams.

Through his own experience, combined with working under 20 different bosses and 12 different CEO’s, John identified many best practices in many leadership areas. These are the focus of his workshops to help all who attend become stronger leaders of higher performing organizations.

John has been supporting, coaching, and training leaders from front-line to C-level for over 20 years. Whether business, organization, or employee related, solving problems and making sound decisions are all in a day’s work as a leader. John has seen many good and bad decisions made, and their impact. His workshops teach leaders how to improve discipline and confidence in leading their teams and problem solving by trying to make the right decisions the first time around.