Workplace Success: Building Your Championship Team  |
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Course Overview |
| | How teams communicate and work together is a cornerstone in an organization's success. Putting together these teams isn't something that happens by chance.
This one-day workshop will give you the strategies and tools you need to build successful teams in your organization.
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| Objectives |
| | | This one-day workshop will help you teach participants how to:
- About the different kinds of teams
- How to develop team norms
- About the Gradients of Agreement
- How to identify their team player style
- Learn ways to become a better team player
- Learn ways to build team trust
- Two models of team development.
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Audience |
| | This course is crucial for anyone within an organization who is responsible for creating or managing teams.
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Prerequisites |
| | There are no prerequisites for this course.
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| Course Number |
| | NHEUWkplSuc
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| Course Length |
| | 1 Days
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| Course Price |
| | $195.00
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| Category |
| | 5
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| Topics |
| | | Lesson 1: Introduction and Course Overview
- This lesson introduces participants to the workshop, details the workshop schedule, and provides participants an opportunity to identify their personal learning objectives.
Lesson 2: Defining Teams
- To get started, participants will learn to define what a team is and what different kinds of teams there are. Participants will also demonstrate synergy through a simple exercise.
Lesson 3: Establishing Team Norms
- This lesson will look at some of the benefits and pitfalls of teams. We will also discuss establishing team norms: ground rules that a team can use to help its members work together efficiently.
Lesson 4: Working as a Team
- During this lesson, students will look at a tool called the Gradients of Agreement. Students will also discuss how it can help them interact with their teammates.
Lesson 5: Glenn Parker Team Survey
- During this lesson, participants will complete a survey constructed by Glenn Parker, a business consultant who has done a great deal of research on teams. This survey will help participants identify their team player style. Participants will then work in small groups to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of their style.
Lesson 6: Building Team Trust
- Trust is one of those mainstay virtues. It is the bond that allows any kind of significant relationship to exist between people. In small groups, participants will discuss some basic ways to establish and build trust in their team.
Lesson 7: The Stages of Team Development
- Every group of people, whether they are a team or just a group working together, grows and evolves. We will spend this lesson looking at Tuckman and Jensen's four stages of team development: forming, storming, norming, and performing.
Lesson 8: Towers
- Another way of looking at team development is the TORI model. Students will experience this model through a fun exercise.
Lesson 9: Communication
- If a team is going to succeed, its members must be able to communicate well with each other. This lesson will cover some basic principles of communication.
Lesson 10: Becoming a Good Team Player
- There are some skills that participants can develop to become better team players. In this lesson, students will discuss some Really Useful Attitudes and some Really Useless Attitudes.
Lesson 11: Workshop Wrap-Up
- At the end of the day, students will have an opportunity to ask questions and fill out a personal action plan.
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