Building & Managing High-performance Teams

Course details

Your success as a manager can often depend on how well your team operates. How are their problem-solving skills? Are they enthusiastic and motivated to do their best? Do they work well together? There have been hundreds of studies demonstrating that human beings function better and learn better in groups. If you want to develop your team leadership skills and unleash the talent of your individual team members, this team building course is a practical look at current leadership practices that work.

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the work practices of high performing teams
• Create a line of sight between what their team does and their organization’s business strategy
• Build teamwork by recognizing and tapping into the five basic types of information their team needs
• Identify and explore their team player style and how it responds to team values, thereby promoting trust and rapport among their team
• Recognize the key elements that move a team from involvement to empowerment, and how to give these elements to their team
• Develop five training steps to unleash team potential and develop team problem-solving and assessment skills
• Develop a model for successfully mentoring and coaching others

Course Outlines:

• Introductions, Learning Objectives, and Agenda
• The Team Player Survey
• The Obsolescence of Hierarchy
• Exploring High Performance Teams
• Assignment: Team Project
• From Involvement to Empowerment
• The Freedom for Creative Thinking
• Team Problem-Solving
• Decision-Making Climate
• Facilitation Skills
• Managing Team Conflict
• The Manager’s Role in Managing Change
• Assessing Team Projects
• Presentations: The Coaching Model
• Review
• Personal Action Plan
• Evaluation