This workshop focuses on enabling leaders to create, develop, and maintain a high-performing team. The skills of leadership and management are explored, as both are required to get the best out of individuals and the team at the same time. Leaders will learn the value of having a balance of ‘roles’ across the team, so that they can call upon appropriate skills at the right time. They will understand how to manage various ‘personality styles’, so that individuals can work more collaboratively, and what ‘motivating’ factors are available to get the best out of others on a consistent basis. Participants will learn how to identify what the team requires to move it along a performance curve, so that they can deliver results on a consistent basis.
Course ID: CHET
Creating Highly Effective Teams
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, leaders will be able to transform a ‘group’ of individuals into a positive, collaborative, and high-performing ‘team’. Participants will learn how to build a ‘trusting’ team and how to get results in a rapidly changing work environment. As teams naturally progress through a ‘group development curve’, leaders will learn how to identify specific ‘indicators’ at each stage, appreciate their underlying ‘needs’, and how to implement the required ‘actions’ to create and maintain a high-performing team.
Major Topics
- The workshop has been broken down into a series of inter-related topics to be delivered over the course of one day
- How leaders require both leadership and management skills in order to communicate and lead effectively across the four generations active in the workplace
- How to use Belbin’s ‘team roles’ to create a balance of skills and help individuals to identify their own preferences
- How to use Appelo’s ‘Moving Motivators’ to appreciate how intrinsic and extrinsic rewards stimulate individuals towards their career goals
- How to use Merrill-Reid’s ‘Personality Styles’ to identify how ‘clashes’ can occur in the team, and what steps to take to increase empathy and collaboration
- How to follow Yeager and Beck’s ‘group development curve’ to see how teams form, perform and grow, and the importance of setting SMART goals on an annual basis to achieve consistently high-performance
- How to help leaders effectively manage the ‘dilemma’ they face when receiving potentially conflicting messages from senior leadership and their direct reports
Who Should Attend
The course is appropriate for leaders at any level. For example, new managers can learn how to create ‘good’ communication and leadership habits at the start of their career, middle-management benchmark those behaviours that may have become a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ habit, and more seasoned leaders use this as an opportunity to remind themselves of best practice leadership principles.
Fields of Study
Personal DevelopmentPrerequisites
It is useful for participants to have had some experience of managing others. This includes leading, managing, supervising, team leading, coaching, mentoring. A big part of the programme is to share experiences with others, so that all participants can learn, develop, and grow their leadership skills.