Training and Organizational Consulting

Building and Leading High Performance Teams

Introduction

Put leadership and team power to work for your company! This seminar will show you how to create a high-powered, results oriented team that will get the job done. Develop the skills to become a successful leader of teams - and discover innovative ways to make your teams more productive. Participants will gain insight into how their team behavior leadership style influences the success of their teams. They will learn how to build a team based organization. The program will emphasize the four - step process for building high performance teams: creating a purpose, establishing goals and directions, developing procedural norms, and monitoring progress. As a result of attending this seminar, any participant will be able to build a team or reenergize an existing one.

SEMINAR OBJECTIVES

Select, develop, and lead a winning team
Generate co-operation across department and organizational lines
Structure for results - clarify roles, goals, and decision making processes
Capitalize on each team member's analytical, organizational, and team building skills
Evaluate and improve current team effectiveness
Identify the benefits and characteristics of high performance teams

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

Delegates will develop high performance leadership and team skills through a variety of learning modalities. The program features small team projects, large group discussion, profile and assessments instruments, simulations, and videos.

WHO MUST ATTEND

This course is designed for organizational leaders, mangers, project leads, or human resource professionals who have the responsibility for developing and maintaining high performance teams.

Individuals who are involved with designing and implementing a team based department or organization will especially benefit. Team members will also gain great value from this program. They will learn how to assess their own team's strengths and assist their colleagues in improving the functioning of existing teams.

SEMINAR OUTLINE

Structuring a Team Based Organization

• Why organizations install teams
  
• Pitfalls to avoid when developing teams
  
• Definitions of different types of teams
  
• The difference between work groups and teams
  
• How to structure your teams for the most benefit to your customers and organization
  
• Creating teams based on technical skills
  
• Developing a receptive team culture

The Conditions for Transforming a Work Group Into a Team

• The steps to building high performance teams
  
• The key characteristics of high performance teams
  
• Conducting a gap analysis to determine deficiencies
  
• Team leader styles
  
• How to effectively lead a team during transformation
  
• Human resource systems and teams
  
• Individual team members' empowerment quotients dealing with change and risk taking

Leading a Team Through Its Development

• The stages of team development
  
• Creating a team identify
  
• Defining team purposes and results
  
• Selecting team members - content vs. process
  
• Facilitating and participating in team meetings
  
• Completing process cycle reports
  
• Establishing both process and task ground rules

Team Conflict and Challenging Team Situations

• Clarifying team roles and responsibilities
  
• Productive vs. destructive team behaviors
  
• Leading through difficult team scenarios
  
• Improving the performance/behaviors of individual team members
  
• Resolving team conflicts - individual and inter team
  
• Team communication skills - listening and feedback
  
• Identifying team problems and resolving them