Every Job is a Six Letter Job – Enhancing Collaboration by Understanding Your Working Genius
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What if you and your team members had access to a simple toolkit that is easy to understand, enhances the quality of your collaborations and meetings, improves the effectiveness of teamwork, and maximizes each team member’s energy and joy at work? The Working Genius toolkit, from Patrick Lencioni, mastermind of ‘The Five Disfunctions of a Team,' is an approach for all this and more.
Join your colleagues to discover your Working Genius and learn how to use the toolkit for better team results and more personal energy and joy at work.
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PLEASE NOTE: Space is limited to the first 30 registrants. Participants will need to complete the assessment in advance of the workshop; pre-registration is required. No walk-ins, please.
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Presenter: Mary Brackett, Senior Director, Organizational Excellence
When: December 5, 2023, 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Details: Newcomb Hall, Commonwealth Room (In-Person)
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January Quality Core Event: Learning from Failure
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Join us for an interactive session focused on communicating the art of learning from failure. Individuals will learn how to view setbacks as opportunities for growth, which will instill resilience and a growth mindset.
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Additionally, participants will be guided in self-reflection and be provided tools for informed decision-making, enabling them to become not only successful individuals but also failure-tolerant leaders.
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The following objectives will be achieved during the session:
- Analyze the role of failure in personal development
- Identify ways to differentiate different types of failure
- Describe tactics that can help with processing the experience of failure
- Identify ways that leaders can develop failure-tolerant approaches in their work
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Presenter: Jeffrey Lovelace, Associate Professor of Commerce, McIntire School of Commerce
When: January 17, 2024, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Details: Central Grounds location, TBD (In-Person)
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Watch for the NCCI Call for Proposals for the 2024 Annual Conference
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Proposals should align with one or more of these core content areas: Process improvement, Innovation and Emerging Trends, Leadership Effectiveness, Leading and Managing Change, Organizational Development, or Strategic Planning.
Not interested in presenting, but want to attend the conference? Mark your calendar for July 24-26, 2024, in Rancho Mirage, CA.
If you want to receive direct emails from NCCI, sign up under UVA’s institutional account.
Here are the instructions:
- Go to ncci-cu.org
- Click on “Log in” in the upper right corner of the page.
- Click “New Member? Click here” to start setting up an account.
- It will then prompt you to enter your email.
- If it says the email is already in the system, this means you already have an account. You can connect with us at info@ncci-cu.org if you need help accessing it.
- If it says the email is not in the system, then you can proceed with creating a profile.
- There will be a place to enter the Institution/Company Name. This is where you will enter University of Virginia (formatted just like that) to get linked to the membership and benefits or use the search icon to select UVA.
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Coastal Research Center Looking Toward the Future
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Last month, OE resumed an engagement with the Coastal Research Center (CRC) to enhance the scale, relevance, and sustainability of the Center. CRC staff and leadership are refining the Center’s mission and vision and developing actionable priorities.
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OE is leveraging principles from Liberating Structures and Strategic Doing to guide generative conversations. The work will continue through the fall, resulting in a roadmap and action plan.
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Highlights from OE’s October Session: Project Management for Non-project Managers
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Over 200 UVA colleagues gathered to learn effective approaches for project planning and implementation. The session delivered by TSI, Inc. was guided by a framework of 12 basic steps for project management: project planning and tracking, implementation management, expectations management, monitor and reporting, impact management, project/workstream integration, delivery assurance, financial management, project administration, risk management, resource management, and scope management. The workshop focused on project planning and tracking, monitor and reporting, and scope management as the most valuable functions.
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Here are some recommendations shared in the workshop:
- Develop a document that addresses the schedule, resources, and scope. These three project constraints must be balanced to ensure quality. All changes to scope will have an impact on the schedule and resources.
- A scope document can also include assumptions, dependencies, costs, critical success factors, known risks, and key team members and their roles.
- For planning and tracking, develop a work breakdown schedule that includes phases, activities, and tasks of the project. Start small and build your experience with the project tracker.
- The monitor and reporting function includes deciding the right reporting frequency and shows the status of key elements and impacts. Focus on the most crucial information, and don’t avoid reporting an item at risk to draw attention to the issue and ask for help or resources.
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RESOURCES
How to Succeed at Failing
Freakonomics co-author Stephen J. Dubner uncovers the hidden side of everything. Why is it safer to fly in an airplane than drive a car? How do we decide whom to marry? Why is the media so full of bad news? Also: things you never knew you wanted to know about wolves, bananas, pollution, search engines, and the quirks of human behavior. The podcast delivers a 4-part series on “How to Succeed at Failing.” Listen to Part One here.
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