One Day • Instructor-led
Companies have become increasingly complex—both geographically and operationally. Old top-down leadership styles need to be replaced with two-way communication and collaboration. Learn the specific tasks you’ll need to orchestrate in order to lead teams successfully in today’s organizations.
Performance-Based Objectives:
At the completion of this course you’ll know how to:
- Diagnose the stage of your team’s development and use that information to guide your leadership strategy to bring the team to higher performance.
- Continuously improve your leadership skills, select the right team members for the task, establish the team’s purpose, and ensure fit with the organization’s needs.
- Lead your team through the stages of development to realize the successful performance required by the organization.
- Lead a “problem team” or “broken team” to effective performance.
- Revitalize a “tired team” and create a “virtual team.”
Course Outline
Lesson 1: The Task of Building a Team
- The Value of Teams
- The Definition of Team
- Stages of Team Development
- Types of Teams
- The Language of Teams
Lesson 2: The Leader of Teams
- So, You’re Going to Lead a Team
- Identifying the Team’s Purpose
- Choosing the Best Team
Lesson 3: Creating the New Team
- Forming
- Constructive Storming
- Norming
- Performing
- Adjourning
Lesson 4: Fixing the Problem Team
- Re-Forming a Problem Team
- Constructive Storming
- Norming and Performing
Lesson 5: Revitalizing the Inactive Team & Creating the Virtual Team
- Revitalizing the Inactive Team
- The New Virtual Team
- The Intact Team