Developing High Performance Teams 



Overview:

Your success as a manager can often depend on how well your team operates.  How are their problem-solving skills? Are they enthusiastic and motivated to do their best?  Do they work well together? There have been hundreds of studies demonstrating that human beings function better and learn better in groups. If you want to develop your team leadership skills and unleash the talent of your individual team members, this workshop is a practical look at current leadership practices that work.

Additional material: 

High Five by Tom Blanchard and Sheldon Bowes, Don Carew Eunice Parisi-Carew

Workshop Objectives:

Examine the work practices of high performing teams

Create line of sight between what your team does and your organisation’s business strategy

Build teamwork by recognising and tapping into the five basic types of information your team needs.

Promote trust and rapport by exploring your team player style and how it responds to team values

Recognize the key elements that move a team from involvement to empowerment and how to give these elements to your team

Develop five training steps to unleash team potential and develop team problem-solving and assessment skills

Develop a model for successfully mentoring and coaching others.

Pre-workshop assignment: The Team Player Survey

Workshop Outline:

Introductions, learning objectives and agenda
Discussion of pre-assignment
The Team Player Survey
        Validating your style
        Understanding your social and behavioral styles
        Moving out of your comfort zone
        Implications for change

The obsolescence of hierarchy
        The downsizing of the workforce
        The move to cooperation
        Types of teams

Exploring High Performance Teams
         Tuckman’s stages of teams
         The Team Performance Model
         Your role as the team leader
         Setting goals
         Communicating
         Involving
         Supporting

Assignment: Team Project

Review

From Involvement to Empowerment
        Developing competency
        Building trust and collaboration

The Freedom for Creative Thinking
        Barriers to creative thinking
        Lateral thinking vs. vertical thinking
        Left brain/right brain
        The Six thinking hats

Team Problem-Solving
        The pursuit of improvement
        No lone rangers
        Types of problems
        Problem-solving tools
       
Decision-Making Climate
        Developing an open atmosphere
        Using leadership skills to reach consensus
        The gradients of agreement

Facilitation Skills
        Encouraging divergent thinking
        Gathering points of view
        Facilitating convergent thinking

Managing Team Conflict
        Open communication
        Sharing information
        Methods for dealing with conflict
        The six steps to conflict resolution

The Manager’s Role in Managing Change
        Empathy
        Communication
        Participation
        Helping the team move through the stages of change

Assessing Team Projects

Presentations: The Coaching Model

Review

Personal action plans and evaluations


Booking:

There are a variety of booking options available

Phone us on: 1300 558 252

Email us: sue@synergyplustraining.com

Fax us: 1300 558 173
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Synergy Plus Training Pty Ltd  3.16 / 35 Shelley St King Street Wharf SYDNEY NSW 2000
Phone: 1300 558 252 | Fax: 1300 558 173 |  Email: info@synergyplustraining.com