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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.