Description
Learn in a classroom environment with your peers, virtually, with an instructor online.
Course Length: 2 Days
Target Audience: General
Goal:
Developing high-performance teams through collaborative team building provides realistic experiences that empower individuals to contribute to common goals, identify roles and responsibilities, address interpersonal issues, understand conflict management styles, and establish work plans for improved business performance and outcomes.
Learning Objectives:
- Provides participants with an opportunity to assess current team performance against the four key dimensions of a high-performance team.
- Understand the factors that influence and accelerate the five stages of team development.
- Assess whether the team has a clear and coherent mission and set of objectives with team member buy-in.
- Identify the roles and responsibilities of the sponsor, team leader and team member at the different stages of team development.
- Help teams that are “stuck” and provide an assessment of conflict management styles.
- Address interpersonal issues impacting performance and develop a plan for strengthening relationships.
- Review different decision-making styles and provide tools to improve decision-making.
- Address meeting process to increase effectiveness.
- Establish work plans for improved business performance and outcomes.
Course Content:
- Assess team performance feedback based on participating interview sessions.
- Evaluate the team’s status versus a high-performance team model.
- Understand the stages of high-performance team formation.
- Work collaboratively with others to complete a team project (open session).
- Provide a safe forum for tabling issues impacting team performance (intact teams).
- Review team objectives and address gaps, different understandings and any lack of clarity.
- Identify the roles and responsibilities within the team.
- Assess team behaviours and individual personality type preferences using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® – value the diversity.
- Identify conflict management styles and address how to use conflict productively by using Thomas- Kilmann Conflict Mode instrument (TKI®).
- Demonstrate the use of planning tools to facilitate decision making and problem solving processes.
- Provide techniques and process improvement recommendations to increase effectiveness.
- Create work plan objectives for the team through a variety of exercises and feedback sessions.
- Achieve real teambuilding using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator – value the diversity.
- Demonstrate the use of planning tools to facilitate decision making and problem solving processes.
- Create work plan objectives for the team through a variety of exercises and feedback sessions.
- Achieve real teambuilding.
Supplement Material
A student manual is available for the learner to follow during the instructor’s presentation.
Benefits to the participants
Throughout the activities, the learners will learn the important factors to achieve a high performance team.
Course Evaluation
A course evaluation will be completed by the learners once the course is finished.
Note: The course outline may be subject to change.
