Building & Leading High-Performing Teams Training

Introduction:

No matter how knowledgeable and competent its members may be, a team will undermine organizational goals, sap morale, and waste effort. This Building and Leading High-Performing Teams course focuses on the roles of team leaders and middle managers in harnessing their team’s potential. It introduces and practices techniques for leading and building high-performance teams to move the team to peak performance.

Leadership is at the heart of high-performance teams. Participants will learn how to lead high-performing teams by fostering an environment that encourages collaboration, innovation, and excellence. This Building and Leading High-Performing Teams training will give you insights into the art and science of building and leading high-performance teams by understanding the dynamics that make teams excel.

Targeted Groups:

• Experienced team leaders.
• Junior/middle managers.
• Supervisors.

Course Objectives:

Participants will finish this Building and Leading High-Performing Teams course with an enhanced ability to:

• Understand your role as a leader in fostering a high-performance environment.
• Identify and leverage talent within the team.
• Engage and motivate the team with a shared vision and values.
• Establish clear objectives and standards of performance for the team.
• Measure and manage team performance.
• Manage and use conflict and challenge positively.
• Optimize team flexibility and commitment.

Targeted Competencies:

The target competencies in this Building and Leading High-Performing Teams training will:

• Leadership skills.
• Team management.
• Performance management.
• Communication skills.
• Emotional intelligence.
• Delegation and empowerment.

Course Content:

Unit 1: Teams and Their Leaders:

• Teams, leaders, and managers.
• Key leadership tasks in building and managing high-performing teams.
• Influence, authority, and power.
• Leadership styles and style flexibility.
• Self-awareness.
• Emotional intelligence and rapport.

Unit 2: Vision, Direction & Alignment:

• Building high-performance teams through creating a shared vision.
• Aims, objectives, and goal alignment.
• Developing meaningful objectives and indicators.
• Divergent approaches to problem-solving.
• Communicating a compelling vision.
• Delivering challenging messages.

Unit 3: Team Dynamics:

• Team development in high-performance team building.
• The sociology of the team.
• Characteristics of high-performing teams.
• Balancing team roles.
• Non-traditional team structures.
• Delegation and empowerment.

Unit 4: Developing The Team:

• Learning and competence.
• Building a coherent team.
• Self-managing teams and their challenges.
• Coaching, mentoring, and self-directed learning.
• Feedback and appraisal.
• Leveraging team strengths to lead teams for high performance.

Unit 5: Performance & Conflict Management:

• Defining performance in developing and leading high-performance teams.
• Approaches to measuring team and individual performance.
• Performance through the eyes of the customer.
• Performance management: science or art?
• Conflict as a catalyst for team development.
• Dealing with challenging interpersonal relations.