Foster Teamwork & Cooperation Skills

Introduction:

The Advanced Teamwork & Cooperation Skills course is designed as a practical program for delegates to put collaborative methods of teamwork in their businesses and leverage the innovative potential of all members of their teams. In business, teamwork and innovation has become the bedrock of competitive strategy, and a major key to competitive advantage. All organizations today need cooperative teamwork and innovation to survive.

Targeted Groups:

• Mid-level managers
• Supervisors
• Team leaders
• Employees who are potential to be promoted to a supervisory or managerial levels

Course Objectives:

At the end of this course the participants will be able to:

• Discover the core competencies required for exemplary teamwork
• Examine the ethical aspects of teamwork which drive lasting results
• Develop innovative leadership approaches
• Use a team approach to solve problems when suitable.
• Resolve conflict and uncertainty that interferes with team progress.
• Encourage collaboration within and across groups (e.g., encourages drawing on others’ expertise, sharing best practices).
• Build the right culture for people and processes to support their team
• Seek input and/or involves others in shaping plans that affect them.
• Help the team to clarify its purpose, direction, and ground rules for working together.
• Check “we VS they” thinking.
• Strengthen their leadership collaboration within the company team
• Understand and help them to navigate their own personal and interpersonal leader skills
• Clarify a form of work-based learning that seeks to integrate theory with practice and knowledge with experience
• Develop strategies for using personal leadership power and building strong, mutual influence relationships within their organization
• Know how to get organized and stay on top of your tasks and time
• Learn how to build more calm and satisfying work-life through stress management and self-awareness

Targeted Competencies:

• Leadership skills
• Coaching skills
• Communication skills
• Enabling
• Innovation

Course Content:

Unit 1: Dynamics of Teamwork & Innovation:

• The Nature of Innovation
• The Nature of Innovative Teams
• The Brain & Learned Behaviors
• Creativity & Innovative Teams
• Developing Innovative Team Mindset
• The Power of Team Collaboration

Unit 2: Building Innovative Teamwork:

• Innovative team values
• High-performance goals and metrics
• Organizing innovative teams
• Innovative team leadership
• Designing a team building program
• Profiling team members

Unit 3: Creating the Right Environment for Teams: 

• Introduction to advanced teamwork
• The individual creative work
• The new role of leadership
• The Red Quadrant
• Team trust issues
• Creative abrasion of conflict

Unit 4: Targeting Team Energy: 

• The difference of indifference
• A team’s picture of success
• Strategic priority areas
• Developing a clear consensus
• The leader’s decision making process
• The power of accountability

Unit 5: Team Cooperation Skills:

• Team gatherings
• Team decisions
• Product performance
• Creating team environments
• Value-added activities
• Inner team conflict