Members $599  Non-members $799

Don Yaeger is an Award-Winning Leadership Speaker, Executive Coach, and 12-time New York Times Best-Selling Author who collaborated on IFA’s virtual learning series, Great Teams: A Don Yaeger Series.

This Full Series Bundle includes all 16 session recordings and accompanying workbook resources.

This series is a comprehensive development initiative designed to elevate your organization's performance. Each session recording addresses critical aspects of building and sustaining high-performing teams, from identifying your corporate "WHY" and fostering leadership to managing change and maintaining efficiency. Through practical exercises and real-world examples from successful teams in sports, business, and the non-profit sector, the program equips your organization with the tools needed to achieve lasting success and foster a culture of continuous improvement. Tailor the lessons to your current priorities and watch your team thrive in any environment.

Targeting Culture Sessions:

• Great Teams Understand their "WHY"

While profit and loss is extremely important to the success of a business, the Great Teams make sure that the entire organization is connected to a Greater purpose. Great Teams are constantly reminded of who they serve and why what they do matters…and this is true no matter what line of work you're in.

• Great Teams Have and Develop Great Leaders

While the need for leadership is obvious, it is also important to discuss the role of leadership development in the creation of any culture of Greatness. Leadership is a responsibility of every stakeholder in the organization. In this lesson, you will learn the pros and cons of common leadership styles along with tips on how to develop the type of leadership that fits and inspires your team for any moment.

• Great Teams Allow Culture to Shape Recruiting

Great teams don't simply chase talent. They recruit players who fit their culture. They understand that great cultures are required for success, and ultimately that culture is dependent on the mixture of those added to the team. In this lesson, you will learn how recruiting to fit the culture is beneficial to more than just office morale…and learn how to do it more accurately.

• Great Teams Create & Retain Depth through Healthy Competition

Just as Great Teams understand the importance of developing a leadership pool, they also know the value of creating depth across the organization. And, since change is always on the horizon, there's a definite need to build a team culture that fosters healthy competition and retains a talented workplace environment through engagement and continuous learning. In this lesson, you will learn how to recognize your high potentials, how to stay engaged with them, and how to boost retention.

Energizing Management Sessions:

• Great Teams Have a Roadmap

The journey to achieving greatness may be long but great teams have a roadmap or plan that guides them there. The plan is the fabric of their culture, and all involved understand the importance of following the plan to reach their desired success. In this lesson, you will learn more about establishing a training program that allows core values to become non-negotiables for future team success.

• Great Teams Strive to Build Camaraderie & Collective Direction

Team building requires buy-in to what the collective direction and goal of the company is supposed to be. Within that is the art of fellowship among your professional team. The development of camaraderie doesn’t happen by accident; it is an intentional effort. In this lesson, you will learn what some of the Great Teams and businesses have done to promote camaraderie and a sense of collective direction.

• Great Teams Manage Dysfunction, Friction & Strong Personalities

While camaraderie is the dream scenario for any team, dysfunction is very real. Conflict is a common variable in team environments. When your team has strong personalities and talented people, many times there will be friction. Great Teams know how to keep those challenges from derailing the achievement of success. In this lesson, you will learn how to manage dysfunction by hearing examples of how the Great Teams promoted a culture where the members didn’t always have to like one another, but they were driven to appreciate their respective value to the team’s overall goal.

• Great Teams Build a Mentoring Culture

Many organizations have "mentoring programs" that are required as a component of corporate advancement. The Great Teams instead encourage a "mentoring culture" that is inspired by wanting to teach and learn every day. Mentoring may seem informal, but done correctly, it is far more valuable than a mandatory check-in over coffee. Great Teams openly discuss the responsibilities of both mentors and mentees to make the business relationship successful. In this lesson, you will learn how the Great Teams unlocked consistent winning by establishing parameters for a strong mentoring culture.

Accelerating Team Growth Sessions:

• Great Teams Adjust to Leadership Changes & Transition

Acquisitions, mergers, promotions, demotions, and organizational shuffles are all commonalities of the corporate world. And, the Great Teams have an ability to adjust to those transitions quicker than their opponents. They don’t allow changes in leadership to stop productivity. In this lesson, you will learn how to allow structural shuffles and moments of leadership change to accelerate your success rather than becoming a reason for failure.

• Great Teams Adapt & Embrace Change

What sows success one year for a company might not necessarily work in the next. Being resistant or oblivious to change is a common mistake made by a team and its leaders; however, the Great Teams embrace that change and are open to adapting the game plan to successfully fit the task at hand. In this lesson, you will learn how great winners welcomed new ideas and strategies, both minor or major, in order to consistently return to championship heights.

• Great Teams Run Successful Huddles

The number one frustration for many companies centers around meetings. Notifications for an upcoming meeting can trigger a wide variety of emotions throughout the levels of any company. But meetings, like the huddles of great sports teams, are an important part of achieving a winning culture. The teams that run the best meetings possess strengths, protocol, and values that their opponents neglect. In this lesson, you will learn how the Great Teams in sports and business run their huddles in a way that promotes efficiency, clarity and championship results.

• Great Teams Improve Through Scouting

Great Teams understand that in order to gain a competitive advantage, they must take a critical look at how their opponents react to challenges. They must also take that same focus and apply it to themselves in an identical scenario. The Great Teams scout internally and externally to ensure that they are maximizing their own efforts while being well-versed on the efforts of their competitors. They make a habit of studying their own team behavior as aggressively as they study their opponents.

Maintaining Efficiency Sessions:

• Great Teams See Value Others Miss

Great teams never answer a question with “…because we’ve always done it this way.” Instead, they are regularly in the evaluation of their situation and seeking opportunities for enhancement. Big data is a hot topic in the world of sports and business because the collection of metrics, analytics, and information can identify a potential advantage. The Great Teams use that data to recognize trends and see opportunities other teams miss.

• Great Teams Know How to Win In Critical Situations/4th Quarter

Clutch! Everyone wants to be clutch. They want to be part of a team that can win in the most critical situation. They want to be best in the 4th Quarter. Great teams win in those moments because they’ve prepared for and figured out effective ways to finish strong. In this lesson, you will learn from examples of the best clutch performers in sports and business as we define how they developed the ability to close out with a victory.

• Great Teams Speak a Different Language

Through success or failure, Great leaders always know what to say to bring out the best in their organization. Successful team leaders don’t berate or chide employees, but seek ways to positively articulate objectives and expectations. Positive communication is not only a habit for high performance teams, but also a tool that can reinforce and enhance the values of the organization.

• Great Teams Avoid the Pitfalls of Success

The worst enemy of a Great Team is often….itself. Even the best team can be defeated by its inability to start fresh. Too many winners sleep in their trophy room, congratulating themselves on last year’s victories. The Great Teams do not fall victim to the pitfalls of human nature and they capitalize on each new opportunity, and not what worked last season or year. In this lesson, you will learn how Great Teams focus on and overcome the common temptation of complacency in order to nurture a culture that wins consistently.

Members $599  Non-members $799

Estimated completion time: 16 hours

Course access length: 1 year upon enrollment 

Awards 16 CFE education credits upon completion 

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