Advanced Team Leadership

INTRODUCTION

Not finance, not strategy, not technology, it is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare. This course on advanced team leadership skills will visit the leadership and team building skills crucial to build a high performing organization. Under leadership we will look at the role of the leader, emotional intelligence and leadership, having a purposeful mission, embracing ethical leadership, planning for the future, influencing others, and driving change. Under teams we will look at team structures, team stages, and team roles. A special feature of the course will be examining Patrick Lencioni’s five dysfunctions of a team.

KEY BENEFITS/OBJECTIVES

• Determine how the leader’s role facilitates team building
• Identify your personal team leader preferences and modify them proactively to increase your leadership effectiveness
• Articulate the relationship between vision, values, and ethics
• Define motivators that can be used with teams
• Demonstrate skills of influencing team members who may not report directly to you
• State the reasons why teams resist change and apply leadership actions that will facilitate change
• Identify different team structures and the benefits of each
• Review the stages of team development and the leader’s role in each stage
• Determine if, as a team leader, all the task and maintenance roles are covered on your teams
• Identify the steps involved in reenergizing a team that is failing
• Discover the five dysfunctions of teams and how to avoid each one
• Develop a team leadership style that will successful build your teams

COMPETENCIES

The competencies taught in this course include:

• How to hold teams accountable for results
• How to get a team to demonstrate commitment
• Building trust and believability as a team leader
• Managing Conflict
• Reenergizing a failing team
• Leading a team during its developmental stages
• Influencing other organizational members who have an impact on your teams
• Motivating teams and fostering change
• Developing team vision, mission, and goal statements
• Recognizing one’s team communication style and the styles of other team members
• Proactively avoiding the five dysfunctions of teams
• Coaching and developing team members

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course is intended for anyone who has had experience in building and participating on teams and who wants to increase the effectiveness and success of teams within their organization. Since it is an advanced course, delegates will need to be able to share examples of teams that they have led and managed and participated on. The basic language of teams is a prerequisite for this program and delegates should very strongly believe that teams are very beneficial to the success of their organizations. The course will attract managers, directors, department heads, team and project leaders, and members of teams.

COURSE OUTLINE

DAY 1

Effective Leadership and Leading Teams

• Apply the concepts of manager vs. leader roles and how leadership exists in the five management roles
• Identify a personal “teachable point of view.”
• Learn the principle concepts that define and enhance EQ: Emotional Intelligence
• Promoting organizational values through ethical leadership
• Motivators that can be used with others in both reporting and non-reporting relationships
• Reasons why organizations and people resist change
• Use specific “tactics” to promote innovation in the work environment

Day 2

Team Building – From A to M

• Different team structures and deciding how to structure your team
• Criteria and characteristics of an effective team
• The 4 stages of team development
• How to reenergize a team that is not longer meeting it goals
• Identifying task, maintenance, and self-oriented roles
• Determining your team leadership style and how effective it is
• Reaching team consensus and avoiding “group think.”

Day 3

Advanced Team Building – From N to Z

• Giving teams a clear sense of direction
• Finding and grooming talented team members
• Assigning clear and enticing responsibilities
• Establishing reasonable and efficient operating procedures
• Developing constructive interpersonal relationships
• Using active reinforcement systems
• Building constructive external relationships

Day 4

The 5 Dysfunctions of Teams

• Absence of trust and how to build believability as a leader
• Fear of conflict and how to manage conflict
• Lack of commitment and how to gain it and demonstrate it
• Avoidance of accountability and how to hold teams accountable
• Inattention to results and how to set clear goals and measurement standards
• Team Building applications – the Great Egg Drop and Brazilian mines.
• Team Presentations preparation

Day 5

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership

• The laws of the lid, influence, process and navigation
• The laws of E.F. Hutton, solid ground and respect
• The laws of intuition, magnetism, connection, and the inner circle

• The laws of empowerment, reproduction, buy-in and victory
• The laws of big mo, priorities, and sacrifice
• The laws of timing, explosive growth, and legacy
• Team presentations, course review and feedback