Teams
Multicultural Teams: Creating and Sustaining an Environment for Learning from Perspective Diversity That Maximizes Team Effectiveness
Leading a Multicultural Team to high performance requires you to create and sustain an environment that leverages perspective diversity. Dr. Robin uses cutting-edge research to help you design your team for success, practical assessments to help team members know themselves and their teammates better, and skill-building activities to help team members practice feedback, exercise influence, and motivate-engage each other in making the team productive.
Multicultural Teams outperform other teams when you need creativity, commitment and buy in — but only if they are designed and managed well. Dr. Robin has a range of resources to help you maximize effectiveness on your team.
- Assessment-Based Team Activities | Birkman, Strengthsfinders, IAT / Unconscious Bias
- Online Programs Using Dr. Robin’s Gamma Team Video Case and Workbook Materials (see tab below)
- The Multicultural Teams Handbook and the Multicultural Teams Mp3s
Contact Dr. Robin HERE for a consultation.
Multicultural Teams materials are available in the following formats.
You can find more information about each in the tabs below.
Book (Hard Copy)
eBook
Mp3
BOOK
Click HERE to purchase Multicultural Teams on Amazon.
Dr. Robin’s Multicultural Teams eBook and audio programs explain how to design and manage your multicultural team well, and how to create and sustain a learn-from differences environment. The content is the same — only the media differ. They both provide practical suggestions from research on how to design your team for success, and how to leverage diverse perspectives within your team to maximize creative problem-solving.
Specifically …
- A clear, motivating focus that requires team members to engage in conversation about why the mission is important strategically to the organization and personally to them.
- An understanding of how important designing the team well is, while knowing how to make the right intervention into the group process at the right time.
- Metrics that measure output, learning and satisfaction.
- The right degree of empowerment and the right type of team given your task and members’ skills.
- The soft-skills tool kit every manager needs to maximize learning on the team.
- Transformational listening skills (not just active listening)
- Inclusive behaviors, particularly connecting names with ideas to encourage participation
- Giving timely, specific, culturally-competent feedback to motivate progress towards goal achievement
- Minority influence strategies to make all contributions count, avoid dis’ing, and keep groupthink at bay
- Communication skills to move from conflict to collaboration
Click HERE for the Multicultural Teams eBook table of contents. Click HERE to purchase Multicultural Teams on Amazon.
eBOOK
Dr. Robin’s Multicultural Teams eBook and audio programs explain how to design and manage your multicultural team well, and how to create and sustain a learn-from differences environment. The content is the same — only the media differ. They both provide practical suggestions from research on how to design your team for success, and how to leverage diverse perspectives within your team to maximize creative problem-solving.
Specifically …
- A clear, motivating focus that requires team members to engage in conversation about why the mission is important strategically to the organization and personally to them.
- An understanding of how important designing the team well is, while knowing how to make the right intervention into the group process at the right time.
- Metrics that measure output, learning and satisfaction.
- The right degree of empowerment and the right type of team given your task and members’ skills.
- The soft-skills tool kit every manager needs to maximize learning on the team.
- Transformational listening skills (not just active listening)
- Inclusive behaviors, particularly connecting names with ideas to encourage participation
- Giving timely, specific, culturally-competent feedback to motivate progress towards goal achievement
- Minority influence strategies to make all contributions count, avoid dis’ing, and keep groupthink at bay
- Communication skills to move from conflict to collaboration
Click HERE for the Multicultural Teams eBook table of contents.
AUDIO | Mp3
Dr. Robin’s Multicultural Teams handbook and audio programs explain how to design and manage your multicultural team well, and how to create and sustain a learn-from differences environment. The content is the same — only the media differ. They both provide practical suggestions from research on how to design your team for success, and how to leverage diverse perspectives within your team to maximize creative problem-solving.
Specifically …
- A clear, motivating focus that requires team members to engage in conversation about why the mission is important strategically to the organization and personally to them.
- An understanding of how important designing the team well is, while knowing how to make the right intervention into the group process at the right time.
- Metrics that measure output, learning and satisfaction.
- The right degree of empowerment and the right type of team given your task and members’ skills.
- The soft-skills tool kit every manager needs to maximize learning on the team.
- Transformational listening skills (not just active listening)
- Inclusive behaviors, particularly connecting names with ideas to encourage participation
- Giving timely, specific, culturally-competent feedback to motivate progress towards goal achievement
- Minority influence strategies to make all contributions count, avoid dis’ing, and keep groupthink at bay
- Communication skills to move from conflict to collaboration
Audio Tracks:
| I | Design For Success In 5 Step | II | Five Skills That Leverage Diversity | |
| 01 | Introduction | 01 | Five Interlocking Skills — Mission | |
| 02 | Defining Teams | 02 | Inclusion | |
| 03 | Multicultural Teams Research | 03 | Minority Influence | |
| 04 | Maximizing Teams Five Steps | 04 | Accountability — High Expectations | |
| 05 | Mission | 05 | Feedback | |
| 06 | Design for Success | 06 | Giving Feedback | |
| 07 | Understand Group Development | 07 | Giving Feedback Example | |
| 08 | Consensus Decision Making | 08 | Receiving Feedback | |
| 09 | Motivating Metrics | 09 | Collaborative Behaviors | |
| 10 | Mark Progress | 10 | Conflict Behaviors | |
| 11 | Four Team Types | 11 | Adding Culture | |
| 12 | Conflict to Collaboration | |||
| 13 | Conclusion |
