Developing and Sustaining High Performing Teams

High-performance teams are essential for organizations to respond to the competitive pressures in changing domestic and global markets. This course provides your organization with the toolkit needed to strengthen team inclusiveness, team development, and team leadership skills. Develop and implement tactics that can foster great teams and collaborative cultures in fast-paced technical environments.

In this program, we focus on high-performance teams, such as:

• Virtual teams
• Project teams
• Special teams - red teams, innovation teams, transformation teams
• Product development teams
• Autonomous work teams

Custom Program Benefits

Your team will learn to:

• Lead effective virtual teams
• Build team member capabilities and contributions
• Develop a collaborative team culture and reduce conflict
• Recognize and deploy team member strengths
• Anticipate issues and facilitate team member interaction
• Deal with the special challenges of virtual teams, project teams, and self-directed teams
• Enhance team problem solving and decision making in high-performance teams

Topics

• The Role of Teams for Leading Change
• Building High-Performance Teams
• Overcoming Obstacles to Team Performance
• Achieving the Full Potential of Virtual Teams
• Understanding Motivation and Behavior in Teams
• Enhancing Team Problem Solving and Decision Making
• Providing Effective Team Leadership

Who should attend

Senior or experienced leaders, rising senior managers, project managers, and technical professionals who want to improve their personal influence and team effectiveness.

Instructor

Rick Hefner; Kathleen Terry Manna