Liby Works/Cut the Clutter: Lean Communication for High-Performing Teams

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Cut the Clutter: Lean Communication for High-Performing Teams

Say goodbye to endless meetings and constant messaging that yield minimal results. Welcome to the Cut the Clutter: Lean Communication for High-Performing Teams!

In today's business environment, effective communication is the key to unlocking your team's full potential. Our intentional bundle provides everything you need to streamline your communication processes, enhance productivity, and achieve outstanding results.

Why this course?

Don’t let cluttered communication hold your team back.

Cut the Clutter takes into consideration years of research, data collection, and application in several different industries from entertainment to non-profits.


With our powerful course, you can:

  • Achieve More with Less: Implement lean communication strategies that lead to fewer meetings and messages but greater productivity.

  • Boost Team Performance: Enhance collaboration and efficiency within your team.

  • Save Time and Resources: Focus on what truly matters, reducing wasted time, effort and money.

  • Reach Better Outcomes: Position your organization for success with clear, effective communication.

What's Inside

  • 4 Modules, 12 lessons with short instructional videos and insights

  • 11 Team actions and activities

  • 7 Easy-to-use templates

  • Leadership actions that accompany each module

  • 1 Leadership journal with entries for each lesson

Contents

Welcome to Cut the Clutter!

At Liby Works, we believe you can have less meetings and less messages but achieve more in your organization.

This program aims to do just that - the following course and Communications Plan Pro template will allow your organization to have less meetings with better results.

Let's dig in!

Welcome to Cut the Clutter!
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Cut the Clutter - the Leadership Journal

Module 1: Understanding the Importance of Effective Communication

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The Role of Communication in Teams: Identify the key elements of clear communication and how to communicate to build trust, promote success, and show you care.

The Impact of Communication on Employee Engagement: Understand the relationship between communication and employee engagement and how to drive performance and create a sense of belonging.

The Cost of Inadequate Communication: Reveal the real costs of poor internal communication and how to improve it to create a cohesive, positive, and productive team culture. 

The Role of Communication in Teams
Team Action: Sample Quarterly Pulse Survey
The Impact of Communication on Employee Engagement
Team Action: Creating Clarity Exercise
The Cost of Inadequate Communication
Team Action: The Big 3+ Handout & Grid

Module 2: Implementing Clear Communication Strategies

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Communication Preferences:  Increase team performance by recognizing individual communication preferences and adapting to them.

Communication Assessment: Make your communication more valuable and effective by identifying your team’s communication strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities.

Communication Preferences
Team Action: Communications Consensus
Communication Assessment
Team Action: TALK Worksheet

The Liby Works Clear Communications Challenge

ACTION ZONE

Practice defining your team’s communication problems, create plans to overcome them, and choose one to start implementing.

The Liby Works Clear Communications Challenge will also be referred to as the CCC.

The Liby Works Clear Communication Challenge
The Steps for a Successful Liby Works CCC
Clear Communication Challenge Handout

Module 3: Revamping Meetings for Effective Communication

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Meeting Types and Effectiveness: Define your meeting intention, type, roles, and agenda to hold more productive meetings.

Implementing People-First Communication in Meetings: The importance of people-first communication and how to prioritize your team members’ success during meetings.

Lean Communication Techniques: Cut back on unnecessary information, unnecessary meetings and messages to communicate more effectively and get better results. 

Meeting Types and Effectiveness
Team Action: Active Listening Activity
Implementing People-First Communication in Meetings
Team Action: Brainstorm at the Next Meeting
Lean Communication Techniques
Bonus Action Step: Meeting Audit

Module 4: Leadership and Communication

Module Overview

Leadership Training:  Identify your leadership strengths and weaknesses and address them to better lead your team.

Leading with Clear Communication: Define clear vs. unclear communication and explore practical strategies to clarify your vision and expectations. 

Leadership Communication and Team Performance: Examine the different types of leadership and communication and how they impact team performance.

Leadership Communication Training
Team Action: Leadership Approach Activity
Leading with Clear Communication
Team Action: The Picture Reference Activity
Leadership Communication & Team Performance
How Leadership Style Influences Communication
Team Action: Personal Goals

Cutting the Clutter and Clearing the Path Forward

Let's review what we’ve learned together and chart a path forward.

Next steps in this journey will include getting to work and having some fun along the way. Find time for the activities in this course to make your team stronger. The journaling exercises and activities can be fun and engaging.

Use the Liby Works Communications Plan Pro to put real communication protocols and norms in place to get everyone on the same page with shared expectations, while encouraging participation and input to make sure the norms stick.

If Liby Works can support your implementation or professional development skills further, please reach out! We would love to help you achieve more with effective communication.

The Last Word on Cutting the Clutter
The Last Word on Cutting the Clutter

The Leadership Toolkit for Cut the Clutter

Leadership Action: Module 1 Actions for Leaders
Leadership Action: Module 2, Communication Consensus - Communications Channel Matrix
Leadership Action: Module 3, Meeting Agendas
Leadership Action: Module 4, Journal Reflection
Leadership Action: Module 4, The CEO Video Roundup
Leadership Journal Fillable
Cut the Clutter - the full slide deck