Eastern Michigan University - Professional Education Center, EMU College of Business

The Professional Education Center at EMU

Team Building and Leadership

Program Format and Content:

In this workshop, you will be encouraged to discover your leadership skills and style as it would be utilized in an organization interested in you developing your department into a high functioning team. Teams should never be established for the sake of having teams. Teams need to exist in organizations to accomplish high levels of performance and to gain the opportunity to have a highly satisfying work life. The workshop will be modified to meet the needs of the participants but is likely to include the following elements:

Understanding the lessons you have learned from your experiences with teams, leaders and change
Development of the basic team skills of sharing information, listening effectively and providing constructive feedback
Understanding the seven key components of team excellence and how to use this model to diagnose your team and design developmental opportunities to help your team on these dimensions
Development of your skills to

Set motivating goals,
Identify team talent,
Clarify roles and responsibilities,
Establish effective/efficient team procedures (especially systematic problem solving), --- Maintain constructive interpersonal relations,
Provide reinforcement for team oriented behaviors and
Gain diplomatic external relationships for your team.

Examine your leadership strengths to determine how you can become an effective participative style leader helping teams help themselves. You will be asked to identify a personal development plan to establish your credibility as a leader in a team environment.

This will be a very interactive workshop where the participants are expected to learn from each other as well as the instructor and to plan to apply what they are learning. Participants will be given the tools to build excellent teams and coached to develop the leadership skills needed to use them.

"The PEC was instrumental in designing a writing course specifically tailored for the Hyundai America Technical Center.

Our consultant and instructor spent weeks learning about our work environment, speaking with our leadership team, researching and incorporating international writing skills into the course; all of which were critical to successfully incorporating our business needs in to the writing course.

The time and dedication of the PEC staff was greatly appreciated."

-E.R. Schmidt, HR Director, Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc.

-J.H. Rim, Korean Coordinator, Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc.

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