Excelling as a Highly Effective Team Leader

This course is also available as a virtual seminar.

https://www.trainup.com/TrainingDetails/310517/Two-Day-Excelling-as-a-Te-AM-Leader

Overview

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.

WORKSHOP AGENDA

Program time: 3 hours each day (6 hours total)

DAY 1

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 four stages of team development.
• Afford your team more power, influence and authority.
• Identify strategies to get your team to accept change.

DAY 2

Session 1: 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 2: 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 3: Dealing with team conflict

• Define the five 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 4: 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.