Excelling as a Highly Effective Team Leader
In this two-day workshop, you’ll learn the personal leadership characteristics and skills that spark the kind of energy and enthusiasm that make productivity and performance soar. Get step-by-step guidelines and practical advice for transforming a group of individuals into a creative, results-producing team.
Course Outcomes
- How to build a cohesive, results-oriented team from a group of diverse individuals
- Motivational techniques that inspire team members to want to perform at their peak
- How to grant the team more decision-making and problem-solving authority as it matures
- How to gain team member commitment to policy and procedural changes that are critical to the success of the organization
Course Agenda
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Excelling as a Highly Effective Team Leader
In this two-day workshop, you’ll learn the personal leadership characteristics and skills that spark the kind of energy and enthusiasm that make productivity and performance soar. Get step-by-step guidelines and practical advice for transforming a group of individuals into a creative, results-producing team.
Session 1: Characteristics of Successful Team Leaders
- Understand the responsibilities of being a team leader
- Show confidence and gain trust from your team members
- Motivate yourself and your team to encourage success
Session 2: How to Build a Team That Gets Results
- Identify the keys every successful team embodies
- Understand what stands in the way of team goal setting
- Build a successful team based on key team characteristics
Session 3: Creating a Motivating Team Climate
- Create a team environment where champions thrive
- Build trust and respect within your team
- Use rewards and recognition to motivate your team members
Session 4: The Changing Role of the Team Leader
- Define the 4 stages of team development
- Afford your team more power, influence and authority
- Identify strategies to get your team to accept change
Session 5: Tuning in to Critical Communication Cues
- Identify the components of effective communication
- Encourage team feedback and constructive criticism
- Listen and ask questions to improve team communication
Session 6: Shared Problem Solving and Decision Making
- Examine why teams fail to solve problems and the leader’s role in facilitating the process
- Use decision-making tools to avoid conflict and controversy
- Identify your preferred problem-solving style
- Establish a creative climate that encourages decision making and cooperation
Session 7: Dealing With Team Conflict
- Define the 5 levels of conflict and other potentially counterproductive activities
- Learn tips for avoiding conflict and encouraging your team to work together
- Discover strategies for working through conflict and anger
- Recognize disciplining methods that are both fair and firm
Session 8: Managing Virtual Teams
- Explore what makes virtual teams different
- Understand the importance of providing continued support to your virtual team members
- Learn the most common reason virtual teams fail and how to overcome the challenges associated with it