Leading Teams Training: Improving Productivity Through Teamwork

Course 222

  • Language: English
  • 17 NASBA CPE Credits (live, in-class training only)
  • 17 PMI PDUs
  • Level:

In this Leading Teams training course, you gain the skills to structure, measure and tune team performance. Through practical workshops, you learn how to become a leader who equips his or her teams with the skills and capabilities to deliver world-class results. You also learn how to create the conditions for success in service delivery teams, integrate leadership characteristics into your management style, and deploy a multilevel approach to minimize communication breakdowns.

Leading Teams Training: Improving Productivity Through Teamwork Delivery Methods

  • After-course instructor coaching benefit
  • Learning Tree end-of-course exam included

Leading Teams Training: Improving Productivity Through Teamwork Course Benefits

Develop your teams to maximize their strengths and enhance productivityOptimize organization and work design for success in service delivery teamsMotivate your team with effective performance measurementIntegrate your leadership responsibilities, competencies and behaviors into your management roleLeverage the complementary skills and styles of your teamEliminate barriers and chokepoints that block teamwork

Leading Teams Course Outline

  • Focusing on people: the key to successful leadership
  • Debunking the charisma requirement
  • Defining leadership and leadership effectiveness
  • Linking the responsibilities, competencies and behaviors of successful leaders

Identifying the components of effective teamwork

  • The power of team-owned ground rules
  • Optimizing team structure

Designing effective work assignments

  • Matching task-to-team organization
  • Selecting the best team design

Managing beyond your team boundaries

  • Protecting the team from outside pressure and disturbance
  • Influencing key players to secure resources

Questioning leadership conventions

  • Countering the myth of "Big L" leadership
  • Applying quiet leadership skills

Building team-led effectiveness

  • Analyzing the subtle forces of measurement
  • Measuring what matters
  • Building a positive psychological contract
  • Tuning measures to optimize results

Overcoming roadblocks to productivity

  • Motivating others by winning their cooperation
  • Ranking team member motivators

Integrating management and leadership

  • Distinguishing the five components of effective leadership
  • Applying leadership in service delivery teams

Refining a powerful leadership approach

  • Encouraging feedback for enhanced performance
  • Building performance through emotionally intelligent leadership

Adopting a servant-leadership role

  • Making the team your primary customer
  • Enhancing individual and team capabilities
  • Enabling the team as a key leadership activity

Expanding your leadership perspective and capabilities

  • Adopting attitudes and expectations to enhance performance
  • Taking on the challenge of leadership excellence

Converting difference into team effectiveness

  • Appreciating the uniqueness of each team member
  • Capitalizing on the differences and diversity of your team

Pinpointing chokepoints in team dynamics

  • Modeling your team as a system
  • Optimizing system effectiveness

The elements of successful communication

  • The causal link between climate, mood and productivity
  • Recognizing mutual communication styles
  • The dominance of emotion in communication and thought

Applying a diverse communication approach

  • Matching channels for communication clarity
  • Identifying situations that impact team performance
  • Applying a dispassionate approach to conflict resolution
  • Managing for agreement and handling conflict
  • Building your vision for your high-performing team
  • Matching your leadership strategies to your team realities
  • Managing reentry into the workplace
  • Setting performance milestones to evaluate your success

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