Improve Your
Team's Effectiveness with
Facilitative Leadership
Practices
Get equipped to build a thriving team and achieve meaningful results
As a facilitative leader, you will guide your team to thriving levels of:
- PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS
- RESPONSIBILITY FOR RESULTS
- ENGAGEMENT & OWNERSHIP
- INDIVIDUAL CAPABILITIES
Is your team drifting toward stagnation?
If your team settles into stagnation:
Engagement falters
Morale is diminished
Meaningful results will not be achieved
What are some signs of a stagnating team?
Sign #1: Team members have unproductive communication
• They avoid talking about important, but challenging, things
• They quickly make (inaccurate) assumptions without testing them
• They are not afraid of talking behind someone’s back
Sign #2: Team members avoid engaging in accountability
• They avoid having conversations about unachieved results
• They frequently blame, defend, or justify unachieved results
• They wait for someone else to address unachieved results
Sign #3: Team members aren’t fully engaged with their team
• They pursue their own goals rather than a common vision and plan
• They keep important, relevant information to themselves
• They don’t “own” the effectiveness of the team
Sign #4: Team members don’t deliberately focus their development
• They are not becoming more effective over time
• They correct weaknesses more than they build on strengths
• They barely talk about improving capabilities during one-on-ones
Take this free Team Effectiveness Assessment
to understand if your team is thriving or stagnating
The Hinken Renewal Model is a proven methodology, designed to guide teams past stagnation to build a thriving team
Two versions of the model are shown below. They highlight the centrality of Team Communication, and the reinforcing nature of the other essential practices of Team Accountability, Individual Development, and Team Engagement. As a facilitative leader, you will be equipped to utilize these four practices to renew your stagnating team.
By optimizing your leadership practices, you will
automatically renew your team
You can learn to integrate these four practices into what you are already doing:
TEAM COMMUNICATION
YOU’LL BE EQUIPPED TO:
Install productive conversation protocols and practices into existing team interactions.
TEAM ACCOUNTABILITY
YOU’LL BE EQUIPPED TO:
Install the Learner’s Path protocols into existing team management practices.
TEAM ENGAGEMENT
YOU’LL BE EQUIPPED TO:
Install group facilitation practices into existing team meetings.
INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT
YOU’LL BE EQUIPPED TO:
Install capability coaching practices into existing team member one-on-ones.
Brian Hinken has
renewed dozens of teams, and
equipped hundreds of leaders through
tools, training, coaching, and facilitation.
Organizations in which Brian has applied the Hinken Renewal Model:
What is the best way for you to get equipped with Hinken Renewal?
| Method of Equipping | Examples | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| TOOLS | Job aids, reference guides, frameworks, assessments, practices, protocols, etc. | Helps you make quick and clear improvement on your own |
| TRAINING | Workshop events, training programs, orientations, introductions, etc. | Helps you increase skills and knowledge for implementing the tools, practices, and frameworks |
| COACHING | Lead individuals (or groups) into meaningful and useful insights through guided and structured conversations | Helps you gain clarity and confidence to achieve your goals and implement your change efforts |
| FACILITATION | Leading your group or organization through a collaborative change process using process consultation | Helps your team or organization achieve breakthrough results |
What have clients and colleagues said about Brian's work?
Three Easy Steps to Start Renewing your Team
STEP 1
STEP 2
STEP 3
Fill out the free
Team Effectiveness Assessment
Get free expert analysis of your assessment with
Brian Hinken
Design your action strategy for team renewal with
Brian Hinken
Recognize indicators of a stagnating team in four key areas.
Understand the meaning of your assessment results, and the implications for your team.
Select your ideal engagement path: Tools, Training, Coaching, and/or Facilitation.
So, How Does This Actually Work?
How does facilitative leadership lead to better team engagement and results?
Many leaders are not sure how to respond when it seems that their team is drifting toward stagnation. Indeed, the success and engagement of the team seems like a huge burden for the leader. But, is it the leader, alone, who must bring up the topics, calm down the tension, fix the problems, and break the bad habits? Or should the other members of the team take some responsibility for maintaining an effective team as well?
At Hinken Renewal, I understand the challenging burdens on you, as a leader, when you need to bring renewal to your team. That is why I am eager to equip you to practice facilitative leadership. Facilitative leadership practices shift the responsibility for maintaining an effective team into a shared responsibility between the leader and the other members. And, (bonus!) you can make this shift without a radical disruption to the functioning of your team. You can simply optimize your current leadership approach by integrating facilitative leadership practices into what you are already doing! Team renewal isn’t about adding more to your plate, but about refining what you are already doing. This refinement will naturally lead to team renewal.
• You can renew existing team interactions to make them more productive.
• You can renew existing team management structures to make them more accountable.
• You can renew existing team meetings to make them more engaging.
• You can renew existing one-on-ones to make them more focused on building capabilities.
Your team’s ownership and engagement will increase, and you will end up with broad, shared responsibility for the effectiveness of the team.
Through tools, training, coaching, or facilitation, Hinken Renewal equips leaders and teams to share the responsibility of renewing their team. Together, you can improve communication, accountability, engagement, and individual development.
Let’s renew your team from the inside out! Let’s turn a stagnating team into a thriving team!
