Developing High Performance Teams

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Team Building: Developing High Performance Teams - 2 Day Course

One of your main responsibilities, as a manager or supervisor, is to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of your team in relation to its goals and to provide the motivation and skills to achieve those goals.

Course Aims

This course will help you to improve the direction, motivation and goal achievement of your team.

You will learn:

·          To analyse your leadership style and team development issues

·          develop your own leadership development strategy

·          motivate and create a team identity

Course Outline

• Introductions and personal objectives
• Moving out of your comfort zone
• Developing an open atmosphere
• Implications for change
• Exploring high performance teams
• Types of teams
• The team performance model
• Tuckman’s stages of teams
• Your role as the team leader
• Leadership styles – Situational Leadership
• Setting SMART goals
• Communicating – involving and supporting
• Developing competency
• Building trust and collaboration
• The freedom for creative thinking
• Barriers to creative thinking
• Lateral thinking vs. Vertical thinking
• Left brain/right brain
• Team problem-solving
• Decision-making climate
• Facilitation skills
• Encouraging divergent thinking
• Gathering points of view
• Facilitating convergent thinking
• Review and Personal Action Plans

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