<div id="_mcePaste">As you look back over the past year and forward to 2011, schedule time to get your team re-energized and re-focused when you get back to work in January. Here are a few ways to do it:</div>
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<li><strong>Summarize Your 2010 Accomplishments</strong> – this can be done as an “Annual Report” with photos, graphs, video clips, and such in a published format, PowerPoint, Intranet, etc to chronicle positive changes and improvements. It doesn’t have to be glossy and expensive. It can be a simple collection of summaries, stories, improvement charts, lessons learned, significant milestones, etc. Publicize it broadly across your organization and use it for celebrations and recognition activities.</li>
<li><strong>External Assessments </strong>– Have external improvement experts do team/organizational audits and assessments on what’s working, what’s not working, change/improvement obstacles and challenges, and how to overcome them.</li>
<li><strong>Project Reviews</strong> – finish every major change/improvement or project with the team assessing what went well, what they would do differently, and a summary of the major lessons learned. Post, publicize, or share those broadly for everyone to learn from.</li>
<li><strong>Learn from Your Successes</strong> – during operational reviews, look for unexpected and unplanned successes. Dig deeper to understand what went right and how that might be repeated or built upon.</li>
<li><strong>Annual Retreat</strong> – Start a powerful annual practice of taking your team offsite to:</li>
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<li>Create, review, or update your vision, core values (no more than 3 – 5 words or phrases), and purpose/mission.</li>
<li>Review data/feedback from your internal external customers or partners on their expectations and how you’re performing against those.</li>
<li>Assessments of team/organization performance.</li>
<li>Review of all improvements and positive changes. This can be the input for your annual report.</li>
<li>Celebrate your accomplishments and key milestones.</li>
<li>Set plans for celebrations and recognition across all of your groups or organization.</li>
<li>Set your 2010 strategic imperatives and the key elements in your cascading <a href="http://www.jimclemmer.com/newsl/june2005.html#goal">goal deployment system</a>.</li>
<li>Identifying this year’s performance gaps and improvement priorities.</li>
<li>Agree on the improvement planning process and timetable for development, approval, and implementation.</li>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Go to <a href="http://www.jimclemmer.com/management-team-retreat-options-and-agenda-menu.php">Management Team Retreats</a> if you’d like to see the framework and approach we’ve refined over the last few decades.</div>
