The Real Workshop

TLS 203 - Fake Work
1-Day Workshop

Focusing and Aligning Teams to Perform
Leading, Managing, and Building Teams by Stopping Fake Work and Doing Real Work

You Cannot Afford the Costs and Distractions of Fake Work! Do Real Work!
It starts with leaders. It is translated by managers. It falls on every employee. Fake Work breaks down the fabric of high performance teams. We are offering a unique and powerful opportunity: a one-day work session based on critical research by authors Gaylan W. Nielson and Brent D. Peterson.

While the book is titled FAKE “WORK”, it really focuses on Real Work, which the authors define as work that is directly linked to strategy. This event will help you be better leaders, managers, team members, and employees by diagnosing strategies to make them useful and aligning teams to execute Real Work. This is a highly interactive work session where you learn by doing.

Striking Research shows all Organizations Struggling with Focus, Clarity, and Results.
Consider these shocking statistics:

- 73% of workers say their organization’s strategies and goals are not translated into
   specific work tasks they can execute.
- 70% of workers do not know what to do to support their organization’s strategy.
- 81% of workers do not feel committed to their organization’s strategy.
- 87% of workers are not satisfied with the results of their work.
- 50% of all work is Fake Work.

These tell a story of confused and misguided employees. This isn’t about people not working hard, but working hard on the wrong things. Many factors contribute to this deficit of attention and focus and that will be part of this event. Struggling companies are dying under the weight of Fake Work; however, even successful companies are surviving in spite of Fake Work and they have no idea the burden and cost of it.

A Customized Workshop to Align Work to Strategies.
This workshop will be lead by Gaylan W. Nielson and his associates from The Work Itself Group. This is a highly facilitated work session that will explore the critical links between strategy, alignment, and execution—or more simply: understand targets, align employees to accomplish them, and get the right work done.

They will combine content from two of their cornerstone offerings: The Real Work Workshop and The Work Itself Work Session. The two-day course will focus attention on strategy and root causes, and then moves into your work—helping you put a stake in the ground about critical focus. We will provide some of the most amazing team-building methods anywhere.

These workshops have been provided all over the world with companies of every size in every industry including engineering, trucking, farming, and manufacturing companies; with hospitals, technology companies, and consulting companies with glaring accolades for life-changing new approaches to old, lingering problems.

The Magical Solution: Lead by Focusing on The Work Itself
Our approach—Understanding Real Work and doing The Work Itself—increases execution by aligning teams and ensuring that individuals’ daily work tasks are linked to strategies. We accomplish that by helping you explore:

1. The link between strategy, alignment, and execution. We will help you understand this critical chain of events and their interdependencies. And, we will do a strategy exercise designed to open new ways to think strategically.
2. The causes of Fake Work. We will explore some of the major contributors that keep us from Real Work.
3. Translating strategy to Real Work. We go beyond just articulating and publishing strategy. We ensure that strategy is built into the critical choices of daily work— Real Work. We will address breakdowns in strategic thinking, communication gaps, and accountability.
4. Aligning individuals through the lens of the team. We focus on alignment as a people issue. We help teams align by building open strategic conversations to help teams work together more effectively and to help each other succeed.
5. Targeting Real Work tasks. We identify and prioritize the work that must be done to support organizational success and translate them into clear Real Work tasks.
6. Linking Real Work to results. We Infuse metrics, responsibility, and accountability into work; which is the only way to get true execution.

A Work-Session YOU and Your Team Must Attend
Leaders, managers, and employees at every level will be rewarded. It is designed to:
• Help leaders address the most critical issues in their organization by looking at work in an entirely new way.
• Help managers rethink performance management and focus every employee on Real Work.
• Serve individuals throughout the organization to focus work by translating strategies into critical work, align with team members, and create Real Work plans that get results.
• Work within departments and teams where issues are common and integral to the success of the organization.
• Be customized for you—around the issues that are driving your company and the things that matter most. This will allow you to better link to strategy and understand relationships with others.