High Performing Teams
In this highly interactive programme, you will learn how to build a winning team that produces high quality results. You will learn how to build a team through conscious planning, an intelligent understanding of team dynamics, and the wise application of skill.
OBJECTIVES:
- To understand the benefits and dynamics of a healthy team
- To learn the strategies of positive, productive, profitable teams
- To adopt the practices of effective team members and leaders
- To gain skills in making meetings more effective and efficient
- To identify and eliminate barriers to effective teamwork
- To create processes for resolving team conflicts
SAMPLE PROGRAM OUTLINE:
UNDERSTANDING TEAMS
- Turning a group into a team
- Identifying the characteristics of an effective team
- Recognising and accelerating the stages of team development
- Diagnosing a team’s effectiveness
BUILDING A SOLID OPERATIONAL BASE
- Establishing purpose and goals
- Reinforcing norms of trust, openness, and co-operation
- Encouraging quality participation from all team members
- Experimenting with new ideas, approaches, solutions
- Arriving at high quality decisions
LEADING TEAMS AND TEAM MEETINGS
- Avoiding common meeting inhibitors
- Improving team meetings
- Dealing with difficult members
- Rewarding team efforts
BEING AN EFFECTIVE MEMBER OF A TEAM
- Understanding what it takes to be a real team player
- Contributing ideas and solutions
- Giving feedback that improves team member effectiveness
- Sharing leadership functions
- Listening to and valuing the contributions of others
RESOLVING TEAM PROBLEMS
- Identifying ineffective processes
- Removing barriers to teamwork
- Managing team conflicts
- Applying group problem solving techniques
