Description

This highly interractive Power Seminar will guide you to leverage the strengths of your team’s performers, cultivate the strengths of the average employee, unearth the strengths of those whose strengths are not apparent, and turn a group of individuals into a cohesive, highly productive team.

If you manage or aspire to manage others, this course will help you identify the strengths and weaknesses of teams and understand team dynamics. Learn how individual behavioral styles affect team performance. Bring out the best in your team and empower your people to get the job done well.

Audience

This seminar training is for anyone who wants to improve his or her team building skills and build a strong cohesive team. You will greatly benefit from this workshop if:

• You have recently been promoted to a new role in which you manage people.
• You would like to identify your team’s strengths and weaknesses.
• You want to improve or develop better commitment, accountability and goal-oriented performance and team productivity.
• You need to resolve team conflict and personality differences.
• You want your workplace to be more enjoyable yet also goal focused.
• You wish to encourage employees to have a positive organizational outlook.
• You have high performers who could benefit from mentorship.

Delivery Method
Consultant-led seminar with structured personal participation activities.

Goals and Objectives

Upon successful completion of this training, you will be able to:

• Understand the personality types, working styles, skills and dynamics that make teams productive or dysfunctional.
• Effectively communicate the requirements of the organization and the responsibilities of individual team members.
• Gather honest feedback from team members.
• Communicate information to a group effectively and objectively based on knowledge of a team’s dynamics.
• Identify and develop the strengths of their team while counterbalancing individual weaknesses.
• Resolve conflict within a team.
• Maximize the empowerment of their teams.

Content
This Training Seminar addresses three distinct and vital areas of team building:

• Day 1 – Team Building: Team roles, personalities, and the dynamics of a team

This lesson will help you understand how the individual dynamics of your team help or hurt team effectiveness. Gain insight into an individual’s behavioral tendencies in a team environment, and learn how these strengths and weaknesses affect how team members perceive themselves in the group. With this information, you will learn how to identify the missing qualities necessary for an effective team and be able to develop individuals’ strengths to build a more productive team.

• Day 2 – Team Building – Continued.

Building on day 1, team building methodology incorporates an assessment of your personal style with techniques for improving active listening, communicating clearly, assessing the strengths of others, and building teams whose strengths and skills complement one another.